Thinophilus calopus Loew, 1852

Fig. 2

Thinophilus calopus Loew, 1852: 659; 1862: 18.

Type locality: Mozambique, Inhambane.

Thinophilus annulitarsis Parent, 1936: 323 .

Type locality: Tanzania, Dar Es Salam, syn. nov.

Material examined

Holotype TANZANIA • ♀; “ Musée du Congo; Dar Es Salam; Apr. 1931; sur plage saltonneuse, à fond de lame; Dr M. Bequart leg.; R. Det. O 3092; Thinophilus annulitarsis n. sp. Type ♀ O. Parent ”; RMCA.

Other material TANZANIA • 1 ♂; Unguja [= Zanzibar] Is., Michamvi beach; 30 Dec.–2 Jan. 2021; M. Grichanov and O. Grichanova leg.; ZIN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Mtwara env.; 7.40° S, 36.99° E; 21–22 Dec. 2015; mangrove; N. Vikhrev leg.; ZMUM .

Notes

Types of Thinophilus calopus were collected from a sea coast; later the species was once reported from the National Park Albert (= Virunga), DR Congo, at a height about 1000 m above sea level, by Vanschuytbroeck (1951), far from the sea coast. RMCA collection contains three females identified by Vanschuytbroeck as T. calopus: two of them belong to the genus Tachytrechus and one specimen to an indeterminable species of Thinophilus . I think the species must be excluded from the fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Thinophilus annulitarsis was described from a female collected on a beach at Dar Es Salam. It has never been recorded again.A male examined from Zanzibar’s beach, close to the type locality of T. annulitarsis, is identical to the female holotype (examined) and original species description (Parent 1936) and to the detailed description of T. calopus by Loew (1862). One more male of this species was found at the site Mtwara, close to the Tanzania-Mozambique border. Therefore, I consider the two names as synonyms.

Distribution

Mozambique, * Tanzania.