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Issue: Vol. 2157 No. 1: 14 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2157.1.2
Page range: 34–42
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

The Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Ipassa Reserve (Makokou, Gabon)

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département de Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205 CNRS, CP50 - 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
University of Silesia, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Zoology, Ul. Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Hemiptera Biodiversity inventory new records from Gabon museum collections

Abstract

In the frame of global and rapid inventories of biodiversity, a first inventory of the Reduviidae of the Ipassa Reserve in Makokou, Gabon is done, including recent field surveys as well as information from museum collections. A total of 42 species, including 27 newly recorded from Ipassa Reserve and 16 also newly recorded from Gabon, are listed. Their distributions, and a general discussion on the geographical distributions of the species, are discussed.

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