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Leptonema vanderysti Navás
Leptonema vanderysti Navás, 1930:330, 331. fig. 45 [holotype , in MRAC].—Scott. 1983:398.—Fischer, 1963:171 [as synonym of occidentale].
Leptonema occidentale Ulmer.—Marlier. 1961:201, 202 [misidentification].—jacquemart and Statzner 1981:14, pl. IX [larvae and pupae].
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Kisantu [Zaire].
DISTRIBUTION.—Zaire.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—[ZAIRE, Prov. Central Congo], Kisantu [05°08′S, 15°19′E], Oct 1929, R.P. Vanderyst, 1 holotype. [Prov. Katanga], Kundelungu, source of the Lofoi [10°S, 27°E], 26 Oct 1951, G. Marlier, 1. [Prov. Kivu], Bunia-Kiri [Bunyakiri, 02°05′S, 28°35′E], Tshikenda [Tshinganda] River, 30 Mar 1950, G. Marlier, 1. BURUNDI, cascade Kiromera, 7 Jun 1959, 1 metamorphotype on 3 slides. Holotype in MRAC; material in MRAC.
DISTRIBUTION.—The group is limited to Africa south of the Sahara, apparently in the Equatorial region.
- bibliographic citation
- Flint, Oliver S., Jr., McAlpine, J. F., and Ross, H. H. 1987. "A Revision of the Genus Leptonema Guérin (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae: Macronematinae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-193. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.450
