Xyloctonus quadricinctus Schedl, 1941

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, Integrated taxonomy, biology and biogeography of the Afrotropical genus Xyloctonus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1), pp. 67-84 : 67

Xyloctonus quadricinctus Schedl, 1941

Figs 44 , 46 , 49

Xyloctonus quadricinctus Schedl, 1941: 387.

Type material.

Holotype: [Tanzania] Usambara, Derema 850 m alt., 7.10.1891, Conradt S. [NHMW].

Diagnosis.

Length 2.1 mm, 2.0 × as long as wide, colour dark brown; antennal club with three visible procurved sutures; anterior margin of pronotum with four equally-long raised teeth; elytral interstriae 9 curves before apex and continues to elytral suture; scutellar shield rounded, tuberculate; elytral suture straight.

Distribution.

Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania.

Biology.

It has been collected from a Sapotaceae tree, Gambeya albida in Ghana (see Schedl (1961b)). Nothing else is known about its biology.

Figures

Figures 43 - 49. Dorsal, lateral and front view declivity and venter with strong spines, of X. aethiops (43, 45, 47, 48); X. quadricinctus, holotype (44, 46, 49).