Afrania

Afrania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Pentatominae
Tribe: Strachiini
Genus: Afrania
Stål, 1865
Synonyms

Sala Walker, 1867

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Afrania is a genus of African shield-bugs in the subfamily Pentatominae and tribe Strachiini, erected by Carl Stål in 1865.[1]

Species

BioLib and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility include:

  1. Afrania brachyptera (Schaum) Schaum[2] (Afrania wahlbergi (Stål, 1853) has been synonymised with this species[3])
  2. Afrania exigua (Walker, 1867)[4]

References

  1. ^ Stål C (1865) Hemiptera Africana, 1, 81.
  2. ^ GBIF: Afrania brachyptera (Schaum) Schaum
  3. ^ Kment, P., Jindra, Z. & Rider, D.A. (2014) New synonymies and new records of Afrotropical and Madagascan Pentatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 3866 (3), 371–397, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.3.4
  4. ^ BioLib.cz: genus Afrania Stål, 1865
  • Data related to Strachiini at Wikispecies