Neacidiophora athalioides, Konow, 1907

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Neacidiophora athalioides (KONOW, 1907)

Neacidiophora athaloides (!) (KONOW, 1907): KOCH 1998: 87 (key), 88 (tax., descr. ♂, Ghinda), 90 (figs 18-21), 90 (tax.).

Neacidiophora athalioides (KONOW, 1907): TAEGER, BLANK & LISTON 2010: 292 (world cat.).

* Neacidiophora bequaerti sternalis nov.var.: FORSIUS 1931: 25 (descr. ♂, Ghinda).

Neacidiophora bequaerti var. sternalis FORSIUS, 1931: KOCH 1998: 88 (syn.).

* Neacidiophora bequaerti var. pectoralis (!) FORSIUS: FORSIUS 1933: 302 (tax., Keren).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Ghinda. Keren.

Neacidiophora athaloides is also recorded from Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The record from Eritrea is not mentioned in KOCH et al. (2015: 143). KOCH (1998: 90) did not studied the paratypes of Neacidiophora bequaerti var. sternalis , but placed with reserve the Eritrean paratype to athalioides. Forsius never described Neacidiophora bequaerti var. pectoralis . This name is probably a printing error and the correct name is sternalis.