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Documenting museum records of West African Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in Benin and Senegal.

Kwevitoukoui HounkpatiJoseph V McHughAbdoul Aziz NiangGeorg Goergen
Published in: Biodiversity data journal (2020)
A total of 129 species representing 11 tribes and 40 genera is reported, including one species of the subfamily Microweiseinae and 128 species of the subfamily Coccinellinae. The geographic distribution of collection localities is presented for these species. Cheilomenes lunata (Fabricius, 1775), Cheilomenes propinqua (Mulsant, 1850), Cheilomenes sulphurea (Olivier, 1791), Chnootriba elaterii (Rossi, 1794), Chnootriba similis (Thunberg, 1781), Exochomus laeviusculus Weise, 1909, Hyperaspis delicatula (Mulsant, 1850) and Hyperaspis pumila Mulsant, 1850 are the best represented species in these collections.
Keyphrases
  • genetic diversity