Cossyphodes andreaei, Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue, Zootaxa 3721 (4), pp. 351-364 : 354-355

Cossyphodes andreaei sp. n.

( Figs. 7–8 )

Type material. Holotype (♂): South Africa, "Transvaal", Waterberg, Lapalala Wilderness, 23°49'S / 20°17'E, 16.VIII.1975, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, TMSA.— Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 1 ex. TMSA, 1 ex. SMNS.— South Africa, "Transvaal", Pretoria, Waterkloof, 25°43'S / 28°11'E, 9.IX.1978, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 2 ex. TMSA.— South Africa, "Transvaal", Pretoria, VII.1953, leg. A. v. Peez, 2 ex. ZSM.

Description. Body dark brown without colour pattern, eyes darker. Body length 2.5–2.6 mm. Head semicircular, clypeus not separated, clypeal lines indistinct, straight; anterior and lateral margins somewhat bent upwards, frons without impression or tubercles; head surface with regular microgranulation; eyes sickle-shaped, composed by two rows of large, dark ocelli, each row with about five ocelli; antennae 11-segmented with two large apical antennomeres forming club, as usual for the genus. Pronotum 2.2 times broader than median length, posterior corner rectangular, acute, anterior corner rounded; all margins unbordered; surface with same microgranulation and microsetation as on head, disc on each side with three fine longitudinal keels, internal keel sometimes shortened anteriorly, additionally with traces of a medial keel, for direction, distances of these keels, see Fig. 7 ; prosternal process elongate triangular with protruding acute posterior angle. Elytra widest shortly before base, 1.2 times longer than broad; elytra with four primary keels and without any secondary keels, internal main keel present only in anterior quarter of elytra, for direction, distances of these keels, see Fig. 7 ; surface with the same microgranulation and microsetation as on head and pronotum. Legs without peculiarities, tarsal formula 5-4- 4 as usual for the genus. Aedeagus with trianguar acute apicale ( Fig. 8 ).

Diagnosis. C. andreaei n.sp. can be recognised by lacking secondary elytral keels in combination with a rudimentary inner main keel present only in the anterior quarter of elytra ( Fig. 7 ), and by eyes with two rows of ocelli. C. machadoi Basilewsky, 1952 , from Angola is similar, but the inner elytral keel is complete and the eyes narrower with only one row of ocelli.

Etymology. Named in honour of Hans Andreae jun. (Cape Town), who recognised this species already as new and named it " pretoriensis ", but designated no type material and gave no description for a valid name according to the nomenclatorical rules (see remarks in catalogue below).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 13. Dorsal view of African Cossyphodini. 7 – 8. Cossyphodes andreaei sp. n., RSA / Waterberg, paratype SMNS and aedeagus. 9. Cossyphodes arnoldi Brauns, 1925, Zimbabwe, lectotype TMSA. 10. Cossyphodes naukluftensis sp. n., Namibia / Naukluft, holotype TMSA. 11. Cossyphodes angolanus Basilewsky, 1952, holotype MRUC. 12. Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger, 1915 (Cossyphodes brincki Andreae, 1961 syn. n., RSA / Hluhluwe, holotype MZLU). 13. Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger, 1915, Zimbabwe, lectotype TMSA. Scale: 1 mm, for aedeagus: 0.5 mm.