Cryptacrus princeps Horvath 1893
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Rédei, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Cryptacrus
Cryptacrus princeps

description: Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893
(Figs 41–43)
Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893: 256 (original description).Synonymized by LESTON (1954: 678).
Cryptacrus princeps: LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1893): 264 (catalogue).
Cryptacrus comes var. princeps: SCHOUTEDEN (1903): 48 (downgraded to variety of C. comes, key to varieties), 50 (redescription, distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1904a): 41 (catalogue); SCHOUTEDEN (1904b): 153 (list, distribution); KIRKALDY (1909b):290 (catalogue); SCHOUTEDEN (1909): 33 (distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1910a): 403 (list, distribution); LEHMANN (1920): 142 (variability, distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1929b): 59 (list, distribution); LESTON (1952a): 15 (variability); SCHOUTEDEN (1972): 94 (list, distribution); LINNAVUORI (1982a): 15 (host plant, distribution); GÖLLNER- SCHEIDING (2012): 101 (distribution).
Type locality. ‘Niam-Niam;communic.Dom.L. DUDA.’ The name Niam- Niam refers to homeland of Azande ethnic group (NE Democratic Republic of the Congo, S South Sudan, SE Central African Republic) (ANONYMUS 2017). For more details, see explanation under Niamia angulosa.
Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1 ♀ (HNHM), ‘Africa / (Niam-Niam) [hw, pink label] // princeps [Horváth’s hw, underlined in red hw] / det. Horváth [p]’ (pinned through scutellum, both distiflagella and apex of right fore tarsus lacking) (Figs 41–43).
Current status. Junior synonym of Cryptacrus comes comes (Fabricius, 1803). LESTON (1954: 679) effectively synonymized all of the named varieties of this species by the following statement: ‘ Cryptacrus comes […] has four extreme colour forms (see SCHOUTEDEN 1903 for details) but intermediates are also found so that there is little point in retaining varietal names […]’.
Distribution of Cryptacrus comes. Africa: Angola (LES- TON 1952a), Burundi (SCHOUTEDEN 1972, no exact record), Cameroon (DISTANT 1877; HAGLUND 1894; KARSCH 1894; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972; LEHMANN 1920; LINNAVUORI 1982a; CZAJA 2007), Central African Republic (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, LINNAVUORI 1982a), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DIS- TANT 1890, 1901; SCHOUTEDEN 1909, 1910a, 1911, 1929b, 1972; LESTON 1952a; CZAJA 2012, 2013 a,b, 2016), Equatorial Guinea (SCHOUTEDEN 1904b), Ethiopia (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, MANCINI 1956), Gabon (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972), Ghana (REUTER 1882, SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Guinea (FABRICIUS 1803, as Tetyra comes; FAIRMAIRE & SIGNORET 1858; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris comes, 1873; WALKER 1867; SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Ivory Coast (SCHOUTEDEN 1963), Kenya (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, JEANNEL 1913), Malawi (DISTANT 1914), Mozambique (DISTANT 1914), Namibia (KARSCH 1892), Nigeria (FAIRMAIRE & SIGNORET 1858; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris comes; WAL- KER 1867; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972), Republic of the Congo (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1909; VILLIERS 1967a; GÖLLNER- SCHEI- DING 2012), Rwanda (SCHOUTEDEN 1972, no exact record), Senegal (SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Somalia (SCHOUTEDEN 1903), South Africa (DALLAS 1851, as Poecilocoris? pinguis; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris pinguis; STÅL 1873, as Caffraria; WAL- KER 1867; DISTANT 1898, as C. pinguis; SCHOUTEDEN 1903; BERGROTH 1914; LESTON 1953), South Sudan (LINNAVUORI 1985), Tanzania (GERSTAECKER 1873; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1910b, 1972; JEANNEL 1913), Uganda (SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972; DISTANT 1902, 1909, 1914; JEANNEL 1913; LESTON 1952b), Zimbabwe (DISTANT 1914, LESTON 1954).
Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of female(s) (HORVÁTH 1893); a single female syntype is deposited in the HNHM.
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Rédei, Dávid, 2018, A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub, pp. 275-295 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on page 285, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0025, http://zenodo.org/record/3699290