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COLOUR. Yellowish or pale reddish brown; reddish or dark brown on head, rostrum, underside, a large trapezoidal central area on pronotum, a stripe on interstria
basal half and an oblique band between interstriae 3 or 4 to 8 before declivity; male with long erect setae on elytral margins and erect setae on suture and swelling at the base of interstria 4.
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ELYTRA. In both sexes shiny, with slightly rounded sides, widest near middle, in male tectiform, distinctly sloping to the sides; striae gradually fading towards apex; base of interstria
GENITALIA. Penis nearly as long as combined length of last 3 ventrites, Body symmetrical, 3.3 × as long as apodemes, about 3 × as long as than wide (ratio w/l: 0.32), with rather large frena (
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<bibRefCitationid="EF9302BEFFE2FF9DBCEECFC16CF7FC12"author="Mariau & Genty"box="[949,1215,958,984]"firstAuthor="Mariau"pageId="20"pageNumber="21"pagination="233 - 240"refId="ref16576"refString="Mariau D. & Genty P. 1988. IRHO contribution to the study of oil palm insect pollinators in Africa, South- America and Indonesia. Oleagineux 43: 233 - 240."type="journal article"year="1988">Mariau & Genty 1988</bibRefCitation>
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is distinguished in the male by long erect setae on margin of elytra, on suture and at base of interstria 4, in female by a large dark trapezoidal central area on the pronotum and a rather wide apical half of the foretibiae. The usually long marginal erect setae of males can be very short as well, as is the case with the
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) that Hustache took to be a female. Such males are also observed in low proportions in
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River. In the collection of Fåhraeus housed at NHRS, a female specimen with the locality “
<bibRefCitationid="EF9302BEFFE2FF9DBB79CA406C93F993"author="Fahraeus O. I."box="[1058,1243,1599,1626]"editor="Schoenherr C. J."firstAuthor="Fahraeus"journalOrPublisher="Roret, Paris"pageId="20"pageNumber="21"refId="ref15428"refString="Fahraeus O. I. 1844. In: Schoenherr C. J. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. L. Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, O. J. Fahraeus, et entomologiis aliis illustratae. Tomus octavus. - Pars prima. Supplementum continens. Roret, Paris [Parisiis] / Fleischer, Leipzig [Lipsiae]."type="book"volumeTitle="Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. L. Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, O. J. Fahraeus, et entomologiis aliis illustratae. Tomus octavus. - Pars prima. Supplementum continens"year="1844">Fåhraeus, 1844</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EF9302BEFFE2FF9DBD1ECA1D6B48F9B7"author="Hustache A."box="[581,768,1634,1661]"firstAuthor="Hustache"journalOrPublisher="Revue de Zoologie et Botanique africaines"pageId="20"pageNumber="21"pagination="43 - 89"part="12"refId="ref16111"refString="Hustache A. 1924. Curculionides nouveaux du Congo. Partie 2. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique africaines 12: 43 - 89, 353 - 396."title="Curculionides nouveaux du Congo. Partie 2"type="journal article"year="1924">Hustache, 1924</bibRefCitation>
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was described based on a series of individuals from two localities in the
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(Haut-Uelé, Moto, 1922 and Kindu, 1913). This species was later put in synonymy with
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but no particular specimen from these series was designated as