6533b858fe1ef96bd12b570b

RESEARCH PRODUCT

<strong><em>Chilocoris laevicollis</em> Horváth, 1919, and<em> Ch. umbricola</em> Linnavuori, 1993—two trogloxenic burrower bugs recorded for the first time in Gabon (Central Africa)</strong>

Barbara LisJerzy A. Lis

subject

geographygeography.geographical_feature_categorybiologyEcologyHeteropteralocation.countryCentral africabiology.organism_classificationHemipteralocationGabonese RepublicCaveAnimal Science and ZoologyCydnidaeEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics

description

First country records of two burrower bugs, Chilocoris laevicollis , and Ch . umbricola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) from Gabon (Central Africa) are presented. The study was based on the specimens collected by Dr. V. Aellen, a well-known Swiss speleologist, taken from two caves near Lastoursville in the Gabonese Republic. Diagnostic characters for both recorded species are provided, and data on their biology and distribution are summarized.

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.8