Odontolochus basilevskyi Endrödi, 1957

Stebnicka, Zdzisława T., 2009, A revision of the African species of Odontolochini Stebnicka & Howden, 1996 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Zootaxa 2230, pp. 1-15 : 6-7

Odontolochus basilevskyi Endrödi, 1957

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Odontolochus basilevskyi Endrödi, 1957: 217 –218 — Endrödi 1964: 372, 379; Dellacasa 1988: 286 (catalog).

Material examined. Holotype male: [ The Democratic Republic of the Congo] ' IRSAC Mus. Congo, Ituri, Terr. Bunia, Mont Hoyo 1200 m, III.1952 / Mc`19, forêt, dans termitière, N. Leleup'/, ' Odontolochus Basilevskyi Endr. ' /( MRAC); paratypes (6) same data as holotype ( MHNG, MRAC).

Diagnosis. Pronotal disc with coarse, strongly longitudinally confluent punctures. Elytral intervals at the same level, obtusely convex, not alternately different, minutely punctate. Odontolochus basilevskyi is most similar to O. raffrayi , but differs from that species by its markedly smaller size and the pronotal disc evenly tumid, without median sulcus.

Description. Length 3.0–3.5 mm Body castaneous, shiny, glabrous. Head alutaceous, very finely, shallowly punctate. Pronotum parallel-sided, anterior disc strongly tumid, lateral margin sinuate ( Fig. 6 ), base straight with row of fine punctures; surface slightly rugose within deep and wide lateral fossa, area along lateral margin with small tumosity and few large punctures. Elytra convex, suboval, humeral and epipleural denticles small, obtuse; striae deep, strial punctures shallow, very weakly crenate margins of intervals; intervals at the same level, obtusely convex, minutely punctate throughout, intervals 9–10 flat. Ventral surface alutaceous; mesosternal median area smooth, nearly parallel-sided, lateral furrows moderately deep; metasternal disc concave, finely punctate with 5–6 scattered, larger punctures; abdominal sternites very finely fluted along sutures. Protibia in both sexes equal in shape; femora minutely punctate; tarsi short, basal tarsomere of metatarsus shorter than upper tibial spur and subequal in length to two following tarsomeres combined.

Male. Disc of pygidium longer than in female.

Distribution. The species is known only from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Figures

FIGURES 6 – 21. Figs 6 – 13, pronotum, lateral outline, 6. O. basilevskyi Endrödi; 7. O. spinicollis (Harold); 8. O. oberthueri (Clouët); 9. O. costatus Endrödi; 10. O. gestroi (Clouet); 11. O. burgeoni Boucomont; 12. O. setulosus Endrödi; 13. O. villiersi Petrovitz; Figs 14 – 19, right protibiae, 14. O. oberthueri (Clouët), male; 15. O. oberthueri (Clouët), female; 16. O. gestroi (Clouët), male; 17. O. ferenczi Endrödi, male; 18. O. villiersi Petrovitz, male; 19. O. villiersi Petrovitz, female; Figs 20 – 21, aedeagus in lateral view, 20. O. spinicollis (Harold); 21. O. paucus Schmidt.