Revision of the genus Myrmecobrenthus Kleine with a description of a new species from Gabon (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Eremoxenini)
Author
Bartolozzi, Luca
Author
Loudit, Sandrine Mariella Bayendi
text
Zootaxa
2011
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53
58
journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.279180
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1175-5326
279180
Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni
Kleine
(
Figs. 1–2
,
5–6, 9
)
Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni
Kleine, 1920
: 27
The
holotype
of this species was destroyed in the Second World War, during the bombing of the
German
city of Hamburg.
Basilewsky (1956)
designated a
neotype
, which is preserved at MRAC and which we have been able to examine. In the original description
Kleine (1920)
described the species based on a single male specimen from South
Cameroon
; the
neotype
was designated as a male specimen from Yangambi (ex
Belgian Congo
, now
Democratic Republic of the Congo
).
Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni
was known from
Cameroon
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(ex
Zaire
),
Ghana
, and the
Ivory Coast
(
Sforzi & Bartolozzi 2004
). Thanks to the entomological expeditions of Mr. Susuni, we have been able to examine two specimens from
Gabon
(
Figs 1–2
) which represent a new record for the country. The label data are: 1 3, Makokou/Ipassa,
II.2011
, A. Susini legit (
MZUF
, collection number 15686) and 1 Ƥ, Parc de l’Ivindo,
V.2009
, A. Susini legit (
MZUF
, collection number 15687). Other examined material: 1 3, 1 Ƥ,
Ivory Coast
, Lamto (Toumadi),
II.1968
, C. Girard legit (
MZUF
, collection number 15688); 1 Ƥ,
Ghana
, Hohee,
III.1986
, K. Werner legit (
MZUF
, collection number 15689).
The female has never been figured before; it differs from the male by the tubular shape of the prorostrum (
Figs. 6, 9
).