An integrated taxonomic revision of Ctonoxylon (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) reveals new Malagasy species originating from multiple recent colonisations of the island
Author
Jordal, Bjarte H.
0000-0001-6082-443X
Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, P. O. 7800, NO- 5020 Bergen, Norway
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ZooKeys
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2024-05-28
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journal article
10.3897/zookeys.1203.123757
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Ctonoxylon hirtellum
Schedl
Figs 12
,
15
,
18
Ctonoxylon hirtellum
Schedl, 1971: 9
.
Type material.
Holotype
, male: Congo Belge [
Democratic Republic of the Congo
],
Yangambi
,
2. VII. 1952
,
K. E. Schedl
leg. [
NHMW
].
Diagnosis.
Length
1.5 mm
, 2.1 × as long as wide, colour pale brown. Eye parts closely separated (by scapus thickness); pronotal eye scraper weakly developed, faint carina near anterior lateral margin from scraper to coxa, without associated groove or propleural pit; scutellar shield at same level as elytra; elytral striae impressed, punctures slightly elongated, separated by 2–3 × their diameter; elytral vestiture consisting of long hairlike setae separated within rows by a little less than their length; elytral apex slightly extended with sharp tubercles along the posterior margin.
Distribution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
Biology.
Nothing known except collected in a tropical lowland rainforest.