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Genus COMPSEUTA Stal 



Monanthia {Compseuta) Stal 1873, p. 133. 



Compseuta: Distant 1904, p. 433; 1910, p. 105.— Horvath 1910, p. 70 — 

 Drake 1948f, pp. 197-204.— Drake and Runoff 1960a, p. 44. 

 Type Species: Tropidocheila ornatella Stal. 

 *Compseuta bioculata Drake 



Compseuta bioculata Drake 1948f, pp. 202, 203, fig. 1 [Nigeria]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Cameroon Mts., Nigeria; Drake 

 Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Nigeria; South Africa. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 *Compseuta bispinosa Drake 



Compseuta bispinosa Drake 1951, p. 173 [Tanganyika]. — Drake and 



Ruhoff 1961c, p. 145. 

 Compseuta kittenbergeri Drake 1951, p. 173. 

 Type: Holotype cf ; Arusha, Africa orientalis; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution: Tanganyika; Egypt. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 *Compseuta capensis (Walker) 



Piesma capensis Walker 1873b, p. 6 [Natal]. 

 Monanthia capensis: Distant 1902a, p. 243; 1902b, p. 356. 

 Compseuta capensis: Drake 1948f, p. 202. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Natal, South Africa; British Mus. 

 Distribution: South Africa (Natal); Uganda. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 *Compseuta comes Drake 



Compseuta comes Drake 1951, p. 172 [Tanganyika]. 

 Type: Holotype o 71 ; Arusha, Africa orientalis; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution : Tanganyika. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 *Compseuta cordiae Drake 



Compseuta cordiae Drake 1948f, pp. 200, 203 [Uganda; Cordia]; 1954g, 

 p. 665 [Ethiopia; Cordia abyssinica]. — Schouteden 1957c, p. 318 

 [Congo]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Kampola, Uganda; Drake Coll. 

 (USNM). 

 Distribution: Uganda; Congo; South Africa; Ethiopia; Tanganyika. 

 Host Plants: Cordia abyssinica; Cordia sp. 

 *Compseuta dispar Schouteden 



Compseuta dispar Schouteden 1923, p. 109 [Congo]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Madyu, Belgian Congo; Cent. Afr. Mus. 

 Distribution: Congo; Uganda. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



