Macrosiagon marcelli Alluaud, 1902

Batelka, Jan, 2011, Contribution to the synonymies, distributions, and bionomics of the Old World species of Macrosiagon (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2), pp. 587-626 : 610-611

Macrosiagon marcelli Alluaud, 1902

( Figs. 39–40 ) Macrosiagon marcelli Alluaud, 1902: 324 . Type locality: Côte d’Ivoire [= Ivory Coast], Assinie. Macrosiagon lemoulti Pic, 1930: 31 , syn. nov. Type locality: Abissinie [= Ethiopia]. Macrosiagon theresae Pic, 1950e: 16 , syn. nov. Type locality: Congo français [= Republic of the Congo]. Macrosiagon auberti Pic, 1951b: 16 , syn. nov. Type locality: Gabon. Type material examined. Macrosiagon marcelli . HOLOTYPE: 1 J (MNHN – coll. Alluaud), ‘Assinie / Côte occi.

L’Afrique / Ch. Alluaud 1886 [p] // Type [p, red letters] // Emenadia / Marcelli / Alluaud [Alluaud’s hw]’; Macrosiagon lemoulti . SYNTYPE: 1 J ( MNHN – coll. Pic), ‘ Maraco [?] / Abyssinie [= Ethiopia] / Juni 1914 // Type

[Pic’s hw] // Type [p, red label] // Le Moulti / n. sp. [Pic’s hw]’. Macrosiagon theresae . SYNTYPE: 1 J (MNHN – coll. Pic, box no. 6), ‘ Congo Francais [Pic’s hw] // Type [Pic’s hw]

// Type [p, red label] // theresae / n. sp. [Pic’s hw]’. Macrosiagon auberti . SYNTYPE: 1 J (MNHN – coll. Pic, box no. 6), ‘202.0. [hw] // Coll.Aubert [hw] // Type [Pic’s

hw] // Type [p, red label] // auberti / n. sp. [Pic’s hw]’. Additional material examined. CÔTE D’IVOIRE: 1 J (MNHN – general coll.), ‘Côte d’Ivoire / G. Melou [p]’; 1 ex. (MNHN – general coll.), ‘Côte d’Ivoire / Adiopodoumé / mois [p] 12 [hw] 1947 [p] / Coll. Ch. Primot [p] // Macrosiagon / bipunctatum / var. [Pic’s hw]’. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 3JJ (MNHN, coll. Pic), ‘Coll. Mus. Congo / Mayidi [100 km S of Kinshasa] / - 1942 / Rév. P. van Eyen [p]’; 1 ♀ (NMPC), ‘Oubangui – Chari / Belg. Congo / Coll. Škulina [p]’; 1 J (MRAC), ‘COLL. MUS. CONGO [p] / Yangambi (Stan.) / VII.1960 / J. Decelle [hw]’; 1 J (MRAC), ‘ MUSÉE DU CONGO / Wombali [3°16’S, 17°20’E] / IX. 1913 / P. Vanderijst [p]’. GABON: 2 ex. (MNHN – general coll.), ‘Gabon / Ex Musaeo / Gambey / 1882 [p]’; 1 J (MNHN – general coll.), ‘Gabon / Naubert [hw]’. GUINEA: 1 J (JBCP), ‘Irr. Gvineya [p], okr. Kindia [10°03′N, 12°51′W] / okr. Pastorii / 15.IX. 1984 [hw] S. V. Murzin [p, in Russian]’. KENYA: 1 J 1 ♀ (BMNH), ‘Kenya Colony / Kabete / iv [iii in J] 1922 / H.E. Box. [p] // Brit. Mus / 1922 – 357 [p] // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05 [p]’; 1 ex. (BMNH), ‘van Someren./ Nairobi 4. 37 [p] // V.G.L. van Someren / Collection / Brit. Mus. 1959-468. [p]’; 1 J (JBCP), ‘Kenya – Nkubu (Meru) / mt. 1500 1/10.IV.87 / R.Mourglia legit. [p]’. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: 1 J (JBCP), ‘RSA, O.F.S. / Fouriesburg / env. 18.1.2003 / Lgt. M. Snížek [p]’. TANZANIA: 1 J (MNHN – coll. Alluaud), ‘Deutsch-Ost-Afrika / Kilimandscharo / [illegible] [p] // Macrosiagon Chagga / n. sp. [Alluaud’s hw]’; 1 ♀ (MNHN – coll. Alluaud), ‘Afrique ORle Allemande / Kilimandjaro / (zone des cultures) / Ch. Alluaud I-IV 1904 [p]’; 1 J (JBCP), ‘Tanzania 8.xii.[19]94 / 30 km W Songes / Werner leg. [p]’; 1 J (JHCP), ‘Tanzania, Arusha distr. / Mt. Meru, 1800-2000m / 5.- 7.4.1997 / J. Rolčík lgt. [p]’; 1 ♀ (BMNH), ‘Nyasaland / Mlanje / Feb. 20. 1913 / S.A. Neave / 1913-140 [p]’ // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det.ZHFalin ’05 [p]’; 1 ex. (BMNH), ‘G.E.Africa. / Usangu Dist./ Nov. 29 to Dec. 15, / 1910. 3,500 -4,500 ft. / S.A. Neave.[p] // 1911 – 177 [p] // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05 [p]’. UGANDA: 1 ♀ (BMNH), ‘Uganda Prot. / N. Ruwenzori. / 6,000 -8,500 ft. / 1-2 Nov. 1911 / S.A. Neave [p] // 1912 – 193. [p] // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05 [p]’; 1 ex. (BMNH), ‘van Someren / Jinja / July, 1931 [p] // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05

[ p]’. ZAMBIA: 1 ♀ ( BMNH), ‘ N. W. Rhodesia: / Kashitu / N of Broken Hill [p] / i. 1915 [hw] / H.C. Dollman [p] // H.C. Dollman / Coll. 1919 - 79 [p] // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05 [p] ’; 1 J ( ZMHB), ‘S – Afr., S. Sambia / Kasungula 26.3.91 / leg. C. Bayer [hw] ’; 1 ♀ ( Fig. 40 ) ( JBCP), ‘ Zambia NE 2005 / 140 km NE Kapiri Mposhi / 62 km SW Serenje / 22. xi. Snížek lgt. [p] ’. ZIMBABWE: 1 ♀ ( Fig. 39 ) ( JBCP), ‘ C. Zimbabwe, / Chivhu , Bulhera env. / 29.xi.1998 / M. Snížek leg. [p] ’; 1 J ( BMNH), ‘S. RHODESIA / Umtali / Vumba / v.1932 // Mrs. L. Ogilvie // Macrosiagon / marcelli / Alluaud 1902 / Det. ZHFalin ’05 [p] ’.

Remarks. One male from MNHN labeled by Alluaud as ‘ Macrosiagon Chagga n. sp. ’ is listed here in the additional material examined, as no description of this species is known to me and the name has never been referred to in literature. Moreover, in Alluaud’s bibliography ( JEANNEL 1952), there is no paper listed that could contain such a description.

Macrosiagon lemoulti , M. theresae and M. auberti fall within variability of M. marcelli and they are therefore proposed as junior synonyms.

Species may be diagnosed as follows: vertex shortened, flattened anterio-posteriorly, medial lobe of pronotal disc without elevation, elytra flattened, strongly acute apically, each elytron with one shallow longitudinal depression. Head always black, pronotal disc and elytra usually unicolorous orange (with black markings in the male from Guinea), legs completely black, abdomen bicolor, first abdominal segment orange basaly, the rest is black, the remaining visible ventrites are orange ventrally, while the rest is black. The male from Republic of South Africa has the pronotal disc with a transversal linear impression in its posterior half, in which it resembles M. lyauteyi and M. trinotata .

Distribution. An Afrotropical species. Described under various names from Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, and the Republic of the Congo. The species has been further reported by PIC (1955) from Ruanda-Urundi, Ruhengeri [= Rwanda]. It is recorded here from Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe for the first time.

Figures

Figs 34–43. 34–36 – Macrosiagon inferna (Schaufuss, 1872) (34–35 – holotype and labels of Emenadia inferna Schaufuss, 1872; 36 – Macrosiagon longipes Pic, 1929, syntype). 37–38 – Macrosiagon lyauteyi Alluaud, 1902, female from Ihosy. 39–40 – Macrosiagon marcelli Alluaud, 1902 (39 – female from Zimbabwe; 40 – female from Zambia, Serenje, head frontally).41–43 – Macrosiagon trinotata Pic, 1950 (41 – holotype; 42 – female from Kenya, Tsavo, head frontally; 43 – male from Republic of South Africa, Transwaal).