Prosopocera (Alphitopola) gahani (Aurivillius, 1925)

Prosopocera (Alphitopola) gahani (Aurivillius, 1925) View in CoL

( Fig. 3 a-d)

Alphitopola gahani Aurivillius, 1925: 3 View in CoL .

Prosopocera (Alphitopola) gahani (Aurivillius, 1925) View in CoL in Breuning, 1936: 166, 213 ( Téocchi, 1994b: 118; 2000a: 640; Téocchi et al., 2014a:19 & Fig. 7; Vittali 2000: 15 & Fig. 2)

Prosopocera (Alphitopola) postscutellaris Breuning, 1961a: 251 ( Téocchi, 1994b: 118) View in CoL .

Prosopocera (Timoreticus) matillai Báguena, 1952: 42-43 View in CoL (Breuning, 1959: 100; Báguena & Breuning, 1962: 164) syn. nov.

Comments. – The type specimen of Prosopocera (Alphitopola) gahani (Aurivillius, 1925) housed in the NHRS has a collection locality label “Ituru omrad” [Ituru area], a town in Kenya. Aurivillius, 1925 and Téocchi, 1994b both indicate the type specimen collection location of P. (A.) gahani as Kartoushi in the Semliki Valley of the former Zaire (Now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). It should also be noted that there are no collection records of P. (A.) gahani from Kenya (eg. Aurivillius, 1925; Téocchi, 1994b; Téocchi, 2000a; Delahaye et al., 2000; Téocchi et al., 2014a). We are thus of the belief that the “collection location label” has been mis applied to the NHRS type specimen. The comparison of the type specimens of A. gahani (NHRS) ( Fig. 3a&b) and P. (T.) matillai from Equatorial Guinea, Evinayong (MNCN) ( Fig. 3 c&d) leaves no doubt as to their synonymy.

Distribution. – The known distribution for this species is Cameroon, DRC (type), Gabon and Ivory Coast ( Téocchi, 2000a; Delahaye et al., 2000), and we have enhanced this by the addition of Equatorial Guinea (type).