Pseudomicracis elsae Eggers, 1920

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2022, The strongly dimorphic bark beetle genus Pseudomicracis (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) in Madagascar-an integrated taxonomic revision, Zootaxa 5125 (3), pp. 325-343 : 330

Pseudomicracis elsae Eggers, 1920

Pseudomicracis elsae Eggers 1920: 36 , orig. spelling

Type material. Holotype, female: Dar-es-Salaam, Ostafrika [ Tanzania] . Holotype lost (Hamburg), not examined.

Diagnosis (transcribed). Length 1.5 mm. Frons impressed between eyes; scapus triangular with a long tuft of setae; club broad with two weakly procurved sutures. Elytral striae not impressed, interstriae with rows of erect fine setae; declivity steep, apex mucronate. Legs widen apically, with three or four small denticles at the outer apical edge.

Distribution. Tanzania.

Remarks. The loss of the type (Hamburg Museum, WWII) and no other verified material makes it difficult to assess the correct position in micracidine classification. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is prudent to maintain taxonomic stability by the application of a diagnosis that embrace the Malagasy species related to P. madagascariensis ( Schedl, 1961) as did Wood (1986). It is apparent from studies on closely related genera in the flagellum clade that all these have a southern African and Malagasy distribution; the occurrence of a single African species in Pseudomicracis will therefore not be evidence to the contrary.