Afrania

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Genus of true bugs

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::summary Genus of true bugs ::

::callout[type=note] the genus of [[Hemiptera ::

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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.

Species

BioLib and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility include:

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

References

References

  1. Stål C (1865) ''Hemiptera Africana'', 1, 81.
  2. [https://www.gbif.org/species/8579511 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. [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id900753/ BioLib.cz]: genus ''Afrania'' Stål, 1865

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