Tripanda ( Tripanda ) signitenens ( Distant, 1898 )

Kment, Petr, Jindra, Zdeněk & Rider, David A., 2014, New synonymies and new records of Afrotropical and Madagascan Pentatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 3866 (3), pp. 371-397 : 377

Tripanda ( Tripanda) signitenens ( Distant, 1898)

Panda signitenens Distant, 1898: 296 , 300 (description, faunistics). Lectotype: ♀, South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria (BMNH) (designated by Kment & Jindra 2009: 33).

Tripanda signitenens: Bergroth (1908) : 164 (catalog); Kirkaldy (1909): 70 (catalog); Leston (1952): 515 (faunistics; accepted).

Tripanda signitenens (partim): Linnavuori (1982): 8, 110 (key to species, distribution (partim); revised!); Rider (2006): 264 (catalogue); Robertson (2009): 166 (catalog; partim).

Tripanda ( Tripanda) signitenens: Kment & Jindra (2009) : 5−8, 10−11, 13, 15−17, 20, 24, 26, 28, 33−35, 42−43, Figs 5–6, 15–16, 23, 27, 29–30, 40–41, 50, 57–59, 68–69, 86, 89, 96, 99, 103, 111–114, 120–121, 130–131, 142–143, 146 ( lectotype designation, key to species, redescription, figures, faunistics).

Material examined. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Katanga: Elisabethville [= Lumumbashi], 10. xi.1925, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, R. P. Lamoral lgt. ( MRAC); Lualaba, Kolwezi, 8. xi.1952, 2 ♀♀, Mme. Gilbert; 1961/1962, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, V. Allard lgt. ( MRAC). Orientale: Ituri: Bunia, vii.1937, on Coffea , 1 ♀, H. J. Brédo lgt. ( MRAC).— MOZAMBIQUE: Beira, xii.1928, 1 ♂, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN).— SOUTH AFRICA: Kwazulu-Natal Province: 25 km S Pongola, 27°34′S, 31°35′E, 510 m a.s.l., 25. i.2010, 1 ♀, J. Halada lgt. ( ZJPC); Natal, Durban, xi.–xii.1901, 1 ♂, H. W. Bell Marley lgt. ( BMNH). Limpopo Province: 70 km NE Polokwane, 23°34′S, 29°52′E, 1150 m a.s.l., 10. xii.2009, 1 ♂, J. Halada lgt. ( ZJPC). Mpumalanga Province: 20 km NNE of Ohrigstad, 24°35′07″S 30°37′54″E, 2.–3. xii.2009, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, O. Šafránek lgt. ( MMBC). North West: Transvaal, Pretoria, 7. i.1950, 1 ♂, F. Zumpt ( USNM); Transvaal, Rustenburg, 8.−15. xi.1948, 1 ♀, A. L. Capener lgt. ( USNM).— ZAMBIA: Rhodésie du Nord, Abercorn [= Mbala], I.G. 15.333, 15. xii.1943, 1 ♂, 4. iv.1944, 1 ♂, H. J. Bredo lgt. ( ISNB); NE, E of Chisasa, W of Solwezi, 24. x.2008, 1 ♀, M. Snížek lgt. ( ISNB); NE, 70 km E of Solwezi, 7. xi.2008, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, M. Snížek lgt. ( ISNB).

Bionomics. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo it was collected on Coffea sp. ( Rubiaceae ).

Distribution. Angola ( Linnavuori 1982, listed without exact locality; Kment & Jindra 2009), Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga ( new record), Mozambique ( new record), South Africa ( Distant 1898; Leston 1952; Kment & Jindra 2009; this paper), Tanzania ( Kment & Jindra 2009), Zambia ( Kment & Jindra 2009; this paper). The occurrence in Angola should be further confirmed by examination of male specimens (see Kment & Jindra 2009).