Cryptophagus wachteli ESSER , 2013

Esser, Jens & R, Afrotropical, 2021, Cryptophagus kielhorni nov. sp. from Ethiopia with remarks on taxonymy and distribution of further species of Cryptophagus HERBST, 1792 in Africa (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (1), pp. 55-59 : 57

Cryptophagus wachteli ESSER, 2013 ( fig. 2 )

Ethiopia: Bale Mts., Harenna Forest E Rira, 3150 m, 10./ 11.II.2017 [NME, cES]. OTERO & PEREIRA (2019) mentioned the Western Palaerctic species C. distinguendus STURM, 1845 from Harenna Forest and further places in high altitudes of the Bale Mts. For the author, it is very probable that OTERO & PEREIRA (2019) confused C. distinguendus with C. wachteli . Both are quite similar ( fig. 2 , 5). C. distinguendus inhabitats hollow trees or dens of different mammals outside trees.

Further distribution data for records of Cryptophagus in the Afrotropical Region were provided by OTERO & PEREIRA (2019).

Figures

Figs 1-2: Habitus of Cryptophagus sp. (1) C. kielhorni nov.sp., holotype; (2) C. wachteli ESSER, 2013, holotype.