Ptomaphaginus rufus Jeannel, 1936

Ptomaphaginus rufus Jeannel, 1936: 56-58, figs 67-68.— Holotype male ‘Type’ [round white label with red rim], ‘Bûkit Timah, Singapore, G.E. Bryant, 7.v.09 ’ [white rectangular label], ‘G. Bryant Coll., 1919— 147’ [white rectangular label], ‘TYPE’ [white rectangular label with red print], ‘See slide 7 (Jeannel 1934)’ [white rectangular label], ‘ Ptomaphaginus rufus n. sp. R. Jeannel det.’ [white rectangular label, Jeannel’s hand] in BMNH [examined]. Microscope slide, left-hand side: ‘ Ptomaphaginus rufus n. sp. Jeannel, Type, Singapoore’ [white square label, Jeannel’s hand, the word ‘Type” underlined in red], ‘B.M. 1919-147, org. copul. ♂ (Slide 7, Jeannel 1934)’ [white square label, the words ‘org. copul. ♂’ in Jeannel’s hand], ‘Type’ [round white label with red rim] in BMNH [examined].— Szymczakowski 1964: 99-101, fig. 11 (redescription); Szymczakowski 1970: 287-289, figs 10-20 (redescription).

Material.— Malaysia: Air Hitam forest reserve, 5 km west of Serdang (Selangor), in pitfall with beef, viii.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (BOR) . Serdang Lama (Selangor), rubber estate, 10.vii.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂ (BOR) . Taman Negara (Pahang), primary forest, 22-27.vi.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂ (BOR) .

Remarks.— This species has been recorded from several sites in Singapore (Jeannel, 1936; Szymczakowski, 1970), which is also the provenance of the holotype. A female paratype derives from the west coast of Sumatra, but Szymczakowski (1964) suspects this specimen may actually belong to the related P. tarsalis Szymczakowski. Our material provides the first localities outside of Singapore: in the Malaysian states of Pahang and Selangor, which suggests the species is more widely distributed across the Malay Peninsula. The new specimens closely match Szymczakowski’s (1970) redescription.