Description of a new genus of spider beetle (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from South Africa Author Akotsen-Mensah, Clement Author Philips, Keith text Zootaxa 2009 2160 51 67 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.188948 ae99a2d2-6ddb-4af8-a471-3a831bfb3d5e 1175-5326 188948 Pocapharaptinus akotsenorum Akotsen and Philips , new species Figs. 13, 14 , 27 & 35 Type material . Holotype : S. Africa, Pofadder 20 km N, 29.01S- 19.27E / 24.8.1977 , E-Y: 1328, singled, leg. Endrödy-Younga / groundtraps with banana bait. Paratype : same data as holotype (6). Diagnosis . This species can be characterized by: a broadly obtusely angled cuticle between pronotal anterior setal tufts ( Fig. 27 ); male genitalia with expanded posterior portion of parameres,and elongate median lobe (Fig. 35). Description . Body reddish brown to brown; body oval, convex. Length 1.5–1.8 mm . Head dorsally smooth but with scattered setose tubercles in a band between eyes, tubercles distinct; setae short, recumbent and erect; setal tufts on either side of midline between eyes present; carina posterior of antennal fossae absent. Pronotum with visible surface extending posteriorly between setal tufts broadly triangular, forming an obtuse angle posteriorly; base of setal tufts arising from just slightly above cuticular surface by height equal to that of tubercles on curved carinae, anterior margin swollen, especially at middle; lateral spines distinct from but blending into tufts, thickness similar to erect elytral setae. Elytral surface moderately convex, apices rounded, not projecting; erect setae yellow, moderately long; six round patches of slightly flattened recumbent white setae located anteriorly within puncture rows 5–8 and posteriorly within rows 4 and 8. Male genitalia with parameres thinnest near apical 1/3, strongly curved inwards near apex, apices distinctly expanded; median lobe parallel sided except near apex, total length 87% of that of parameres measured from base (Fig. 35). FIGURES 13–16. Dorsal and ventral habitus views; 13–14. P. akotsenorum ; 15–16. P. c a p e n s i s. Scale bar for Figs. 13, 15–16 = 1.0mm and Fig. 14 = 0.5mm. Etymology . The specific epithet honors the parents of the first author, whose efforts and motivation helped to make his studies at Western Kentucky University and elsewhere possible.