Naboandelus bergevini pygmaeus Linnavuori, 1971

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 869

Naboandelus bergevini pygmaeus Linnavuori, 1971

Naboandelus bergevini Bgr. ssp. pygmaea Linnavuori, 1971: 360–361 (original description).

Naboandelus bergevini pygmaea: LINNAVUORI (1975) : 45 –46 (diagnosis), LINNAVUORI (1981): 17 (list), ANDERSEN (1995): 97 (catalogue), POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2002): 293 (catalogue).

Nine paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. II. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // J [p] // PARATYPUS / NABO- ANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

PARATYPES (2 JJ apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. 2. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // J [p] // PARATYPUS / NABOANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. II. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // Naboandelus / bergevini ssp. / pygmaeus Lv. / paratypes [hw] // ♀ [p] // PARATYPUS / NABOANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

PARATYPES (3 ♀♀ apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. II. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // ♀ [p] // PARATYPUS / NABOANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. 2. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // ♀ [p] // PARATYPUS / NABO- ANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘ Sudan. Kordofan / Lake Keilak / 8–11. 2. 63 / Linnavuori [p] // ♀ [p] // Naboandelus / bergevini / pygmaeus / Lv. [hw] // PARATYPUS / NABOANDELUS / BERGEVINI PYGMAEA / Linnavuori, 1971 / labelled: P. KMENT 2013 [p, red label]’.

Current status. Valid subspecies: Naboandelus bergevini pygmaeus Linnavuori, 1971 (see LINNAVUORI 1975, 1981; ANDERSEN 1995; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2002).

Remark. LINNAVUORI (1971) cited the subspecies epithet as pygmaea; pygmaeus (-a, - um) is a Latin adjective meaning ‘of or pertaining to a pygmy or dwarf, especially to the mythical Pygmaei of Africa; short; of reduced statue’. This spelling was accepted in all the subsequent papers ( LINNAVUORI 1975 1981; ANDERSEN 1995; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2002). However, as the genus name Naboandelus Distant, 1910 (type species N. signatus Distant, 1910 – see DISTANT 1910) is undoubtedly a masculine, the correct spelling of the subspecies must be Naboandelus bergevini pygmaeus (see ICZN 1999: 31.2, 34.2).