Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl

Figs 76, 78, 80

Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl, 1951: 39 .

Type material.

Syntypes: [Ivory Coast] Cote d’Ivoire, Reserve du Banco [5.39, - 4.05] [MNHN, NHMW] .

Diagnosis.

Length 2.6–3.1 mm. 2.3–2.4 × as long as broad; colour reddish brown. Eyes divided, separated by the size of upper part; antennal club setose, sutures obscure; male frons roughly punctured, glabrous in middle, with short coarse setae close to the eyes; pronotum with dense subconfluent asperities on anterior two-thirds, a fused pair of teeth just behind front margin; lateral anterior margin of prothorax from middle part to coxa with shallow irregular groove; propleural pit round, deep; elytral striae impressed, punctures large, deep, narrowly separated; vestiture on interstriae consisting of densely confused, short, scale-like setae; elytral suture straight, apex narrowly rounded, entire.

Distribution.

Ivory Coast, Ghana (new country), Tanzania.

New record.

Ghana, Samreboi [5.61, - 2.55], ex Trichilia rubescens, 10. IX. 1962, F. G. Browne, leg. [2, NHMUK] .

Biology.

Known to breed in Olea welwitschii ( Oleaceae), Pachylobus deliciosus ( Burseraceae), Strombosia postulata ( Olacaceae), and Trichilia rubescens ( Meliaceae), an unusually broad assemblage of host plants for a true bark beetle.