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 caudatum
Schedl
Figs 57
,
60
,
63
Ctonoxylon caudatum
Schedl, 1971: 8
.
Type material.
Holotype
, male: [Democratic Republic of the]
Congo Belge
,
Stanleyville
[Kisangani],
19. 6. 1952
,
K. E. Schedl
[
NHMW
].
Diagnosis.
Length
3.5 mm
. 2.2 × as long as broad; colour dark brown and black. Eyes divided, separated by the size of upper part; head black, frons reticulate, with scattered short setae; pronotal asperities broadly distributed on anterior three-quarters; lateral anterior margin of prothorax from middle part to coxa with shallow irregular groove; propleural pit presumably present; elytral vestiture of multiple confused rows of short interstrial scale-like setae; elytral apex expanded by pair of elongated prong-like tubercles; protibiae on anterior face with shallow groove of depth 1 / 3 the width of tibia.
Distribution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.