Ctonoxylon auratum Hagedorn

Figs 48, 51, 54

Ctonoxylon auratum Hagedorn, 1910: 4.

Type material.

Holotype: Kamerun, Conradt [leg.], coll Kraatz, Hagedorn det. [SDEI].

Diagnosis.

Length 2.1–2.2 mm. 2.4–2.5 × as long as broad; colour brown. Eyes divided, separated by 2 / 3 the width of upper part; setae in frons mainly scale-like; anterior margin of pronotum with two teeth fused; anterior margin of prothorax from top to coxa with row of deep circular pits; propleural pit present; elytral vestiture of irregular interstrial rows of scalelike setae mixed with smaller and softer bristle-like setae, appearing somewhat fluffy; elytral apex emarginated; protibiae on anterior face with shallow groove, depth ~ 1 / 3 of tibia width.

Distribution.

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Remarks.

The female holotype of this species is located in Muncheberg [SDEI], not Berlin as stated in Wood and Bright (1992).