Ctonoxylon hirtellum Schedl

Figs 12, 15, 18

Ctonoxylon hirtellum Schedl, 1971: 9 .

Type material.

Holotype, male: Congo Belge [Democratic Republic of the Congo], Yangambi, 2. VII. 1952, K. E. Schedl leg. [NHMW].

Diagnosis.

Length 1.5 mm, 2.1 × as long as wide, colour pale brown. Eye parts closely separated (by scapus thickness); pronotal eye scraper weakly developed, faint carina near anterior lateral margin from scraper to coxa, without associated groove or propleural pit; scutellar shield at same level as elytra; elytral striae impressed, punctures slightly elongated, separated by 2–3 × their diameter; elytral vestiture consisting of long hairlike setae separated within rows by a little less than their length; elytral apex slightly extended with sharp tubercles along the posterior margin.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biology.

Nothing known except collected in a tropical lowland rainforest.