An integrated taxonomic revision of Diplotrichus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) supports a Malagasy origin and single colonisation of South Africa
Author
Jordal, Bjarte H.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-29
5047
2
101
122
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5047.2.1
1175-5326
5540558
1B6FD2EB-A9BF-46C7-B2A3-5DC5FC78CBF7
Diplotrichus catenatus
(
Schedl, 1953
)
(
Figs 43, 46, 49, 50
)
Micraciops catenatus
Schedl, 1953: 86
, orig. spelling
Lanurgus catenatus
(
Schedl, 1953
)
, combination by
Schedl (1963)
Type
material.
Madagascar
,
Pays d’Androy
,
Alluaud
, 1901 [
NHMW
]
.
FIGURES 43–52.
Dorsal, lateral, and front view of
Diplotrichus catenatus
female (43, 46, 49) and male (50),
Diplotrichus euphorbiae
male paratype (44, 47, 51),
Diplotrichus plenus
sp. nov.
male holotype (45, 48, 52).
Diagnosis.
Length
2.3–2.4 mm
, 2.3 × as long as wide; colour black. With a characteristically deviating pattern of multiple confused rows of broadly spatulate setae which are in part semi-recumbent. Female frons with very dense brush of long golden setae and equally long tuft of setae on the inner face of the scapus.
Distribution.
Madagascar
. Found manly in spiny forests of the south (
Schedl 1977
).
New records.
Madagascar
,
Mahafaly
plateau,
Atanambao
nr
Beana
, BMNH2010-29 [
GIS
: -23.50, 44.54],
14.01.2013
,
M. Tryzna
;
Ranomafana NP
, BMNH
2010-29, 958 m
[
GIS
:
-21.253
,
47.421
],
17.11.2011
,
light trap
,
M. Tryzna.
BMNH
NHMUK
.
Remarks.
This is the only species in the genus which has multiple confused rows of semirecumbent scale-like setae on some of the interstriae. Molecular data from multiple loci nevertheless place this species close to
D. elongatus
and
D. granulatus
(
Fig. 7
) and share the condition of split setae on ventrite 1 and the metaventrite typical for the genus.