Trogolaphysa beguei (Delamare Debouteville, 1951) n. comb.

Paronella beguei Delamare Debouteville 1951a: 1074, figs 5-12 (Ivory Coast); 1951b: 60, 82, 135, 166, 176, 254, 266, fig. 21 (ecology, Ivory Coast).

Paronella beguei – Delamare Debouteville 1948: 309, 376, 421, nomen nudum.

Dicranocentruga beguei – Mitra 2002c: 114.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Le Banco, Ivory Coast.

DISTRIBUTION. — Ivory Coast.

REMARKS

Delamare Debouteville first used the combination Paronella beguei in 1948 referring to a paronellid found together with termites. This first mention of P. beguei included neither a morphological description nor drawings and therefore it is a nomen nudum.

The only other significant citations for P. beguei are those of Delamare Debouteville (1951b), concerning its ecology, and Mitra (2002c) in which the author transfers the species to the genus Dicranocentruga Wray, 1953.

We assign this species to Trogolaphysa based on mucro shape, which is typical for the genus, short and bearing 4 teeth, and the relatively long antennae. Otherwise, this is a well-marked species, unique among African forms in having a distinctive color pattern (Fig. 5J) and truncate unguiculus (Fig. 5H).