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Agrilus sexguttatus (Thunberg, 1789)


General distribution: Botswana, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Province records: KH

♀: NA, Khomas, Finkenstein (E Windhoek), 1800 m.s.l., MNCA.

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Type locality:

“East India” [erroneous]


Type repository:

Lectotype ♂: UUZM



Ecology:

Lygaeid-mimicking species, which was collected in South Africa by beating foliage of Acacia karoo (Fabaceae) and Ziziphus mucronata Willd. (Rhamnaceae) (Bellamy & Westcott 1995).


Flight period:

I, II, III


Size:



Remarks:

Previously not recorded from Namibia.


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