Hounkpati K, McHugh JV, Niang AA, Goergen G. Documenting museum records of West African Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in Benin and Senegal.
Biodivers Data J 2020;
8:e47340. [PMID:
32002014 PMCID:
PMC6981310 DOI:
10.3897/bdj.8.e47340]
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Abstract
Background
This work provides a preliminary inventory of West African Coccinellidae.
This was based on the West African Coccinellidae (WAC) specimens in the holdings of insect collections at the Laboratoire de Zoologie des Invertébrés Terrestres at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN), Senegal and the Biodiversity Center at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITAB), Benin.
New information
A total of 129 species representing 11 tribes and 40 genera is reported, including one species of the subfamily Microweiseinae and 128 species of the subfamily Coccinellinae. The geographic distribution of collection localities is presented for these species. Cheilomeneslunata (Fabricius, 1775), Cheilomenespropinqua (Mulsant, 1850), Cheilomenessulphurea (Olivier, 1791), Chnootribaelaterii (Rossi, 1794), Chnootribasimilis (Thunberg, 1781), Exochomuslaeviusculus Weise, 1909, Hyperaspisdelicatula (Mulsant, 1850) and Hyperaspispumila Mulsant, 1850 are the best represented species in these collections.
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