Afromicracis congona ( Eggers, 1940 )

Jordal, Bjarte, 2021, Small, uniform, and rarely collected-an integrated taxonomic revision of Afromicracis bark beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4981 (1), pp. 70-88 : 82-84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.1.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5043265

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Afromicracis congona ( Eggers, 1940 )
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Afromicracis congona ( Eggers, 1940) View in CoL

( Figs 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46 View FIGURES 38–46 )

Miocryphalus congonus Eggers, 1940 View in CoL (original spelling)

Type material. Holotype, female: [ Congo] Congostaat, Kivu, Lacs Mokoto [GIS: -1.221, 29.018] ( RMCA); paratype (1): Congo, Kivu, Kahunda [GIS: -1.50, 28.90], VIII-1937, J. Ghesquiere ( NMW). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Length 1.1–1.4 mm, 2.2–2.3 × as long as wide; frons smooth and finely punctulate, with fine short setae; antennal scapus with fine tuft of setae as long as the scapus; antennal club corneous, with one distinct procurved suture near apical margin; pronotal asperities broad, subcontiguous, in concentric rows near summit; elytral setae narrowly spatulate; protibiae with one lateral and two apical denticles.

Distribution. Cameroon, Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania.

New record: Cameroon, SW province, Limbe , Ekande, 1000 m, [GIS: 4.081, 9.172], ex Symphonia globulifera , 20.Nov.2007, B. Jordal, leg. GoogleMaps

Remarks. Specimens collected in Cameroon are slightly shinier and interstrial setae are slightly more separated compared to the paratype collected in Eastern part of Congo, although these features vary within the Cameroon collection site. The holotype is intermediate between the two depicted specimens ( Figs 39–40 View FIGURES 38–46 ). One host plant is previously reported, Guarea laurentii (Meliaceae) , and the new record from Symphonia globulifera involves a new host family ( Clusiaceae ) for this species. In Cameroon, pairs of one male and one female were dissected from young galleries in twigs and thin branches.

RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Afromicracis

Loc

Afromicracis congona ( Eggers, 1940 )

Jordal, Bjarte 2021
2021
Loc

Miocryphalus congonus

Eggers 1940
1940
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