Triodonta lujai Moser, 1917

Vitali, Francesco, 2019, Catalogue of the types of the Scarabaeidae in the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 814, pp. 95-114 : 100-101

Triodonta lujai Moser, 1917 Figure 7

Triodonta Lujai Moser, 1917: 197-198 (type locality: “Kondué, Congo Belge"); Heuertz, 1954: 32.

Type.

Ed. Luja / Kondué / Congo-Belge // Donateur 861a / Ed, Luja, / Lux[em]b[our]g V.1911 // Triodonta / Lujai Mos. / n. sp. [handwritten by Moser] // 2338, 1♂.

Remarks.

The species was described from an unknown number of specimens of both sexes measuring from 5.5 to 7 mm in body length. Luja had collected these during his third mission in Kondué.

The genus Triodonta Mulsant, 1842, being preoccupied by Triodonta Bory de Saint Vincent, 1827 ( Colpodidae , Regnum Chromista), was substituted by Triodontella by Reitter (1919).

Current status.

Triodontella lujai (Moser, 1917): Krajcik 2012: 257.