Pirates (Cleptocoris) rufescens Villiers 1948

Pirates (Cleptocoris) rufescens Villiers, 1948 Original data: “ Type: un ♂ du Moyen-Chari (Mus. Paris)”; “ OUBANGUI- CHARI: Fort Archambault: Boungoul (Ba-Karé), quatre exemplaires récoltés de décembre à mars (Dr. DECORSE et A. CHEVALIER)” (Villiers 1948: 234). Type: Holotype ♂: “ TYPE ” // “FÉVRIER” // “ MUSEUM PARIS MOYEN CHARI FORT ARCHAMBAULT BOUNGOUL (BA-KARÉ) MISSION CHARI · TCHAD Dr J. DECORSE 1904” // “ Pirates rufescens m. A. Villiers det.” [hw Villiers] (Fig. 56). Type locality: Oubangui - Chari, Moyen-Chari: Fort Archambault [now Sarh, Chad]. Current status: Junior synonym of Peirates strepitans Rambur, 1839 (Coscarón & Morrone 1995: 216). Remark: The three or four paratypes mentioned by Villiers (1948) (it is somewhat unclear from the text whether the holotype was included or not in the four specimens mentioned) were not found. Published as part of Liu, Yingqi, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Guilbert, Eric & Cai, Wanzhi, 2022, Catalogue of type specimens of Peiratinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) preserved in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 5110 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5110.1.1, zenodo.org