Microcenoscelis minuscula ( Ardoin, 1969 ) Ardoin, 1969

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2015, Microcenoscelis n. gen. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Ulomini) from tropical Africa, with description of a blind species from Zimbabwe, Zootaxa 4027 (3), pp. 437-441 : 439

Microcenoscelis minuscula ( Ardoin, 1969) n. comb.

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Uloma minuscula Ardoin, 1969 .

Cenoscelis minuscula ( Ardoin, 1969) –comb. ( Schawaller 2015). Eutochia pumilio Bremer, 2001 –syn. ( Schawaller 2015). Cenoscelis pumilio ( Bremer, 2001) –comb. ( Schawaller 2015).

Type specimens examined. Ivory Coast, Ferkessédougou, 10.–20.V.1964, leg. J. Decelle, ♀ holotype of M. minuscula MRAC.— Sudan, North Darfur Prov., El Geneina, 13.IX.1979, leg. I. M. Abuzinid, 1 ♂ paratype of E. pumilio SMNS.

Specimens examined. Ivory Coast, Kafolo/Comoé, 27.IV.1988, leg. F.-T. Krell, 1 ♀ SMNS.

Remarks. Ardoin (1969) with doubts placed this taxon in Uloma because of the small body size, the long antennae, and the undentate anterior tibiae. Schawaller (2015) excluded this species from Uloma and transferred it preliminarily into the genus Cenoscelis Wollaston, 1867 .

For shape of the aedeagus see Bremer (2001). The male protibia is not regularly rounded at interior edge as figured by Bremer (2001), but with a feeble angle, similar as in Cenoscelis . Wings present, some specimens collected at light ( Bremer 2001).

Distribution. Ivory Coast, Chad, Senegal ( Ardoin 1969); Mali, Sudan, Ghana, Gambia ( Bremer 2001).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 2. Dorsal view of Microcenoscelis n. gen. 1 M. caeca n. sp., holotype female, Zimbabwe. 2 M. minuscula (Ardoin, 1969) n. comb., non-type female, Ivory Coast. Scale: 1.0 mm.