Fenestellidium kakamegaense Grebennikov, 2009

Darby, Michael, 2019, Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 6: New species and records collected by W. C. Block in Kenya and Uganda, 1964 - 1965, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 155, pp. 239-257 : 246

Fenestellidium kakamegaense Grebennikov, 2009

(originally described F. kakamegaensis , gender incorrect)

( Fig. 5C )

Remarks: The genus was described by Grebennikov based on F. capense (originally described F. capensis , gender incorrect) from S. Africa and F. kakameghaense from the Kakamega forest, Udo’s bandas, Kenya. A third species F. canfordanum from Natal was added by Darby (2011).

Material examined

1 ex., UGANDA: Mabira Forest , 40 miles E. Kampala, tropical rain forest, x.1965, 0°20′N, 33°8′E, leg. W.C. Block, B.M. 1978-472 ( BMNH) ; 1 ex., UGANDA, Katabana , 14 miles N. Kampala, 0°29′N, 32°37′E, litter in papyrus swamp, leg. W.C. Block, B.M. 1978-472 ( BMNH) .

Figures

Fig. 5. — Discheramocephalini. Dacrysoma sp., A, habitus. Africoptilium marginatum Johnson, B, habitus. Fenestillidium kakamegaense Grebennikov, C, habitus.