Mimolaena pauliani Ardoin, 1961

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Revision of the genera Hovadelium Ardoin and Mimolaena Ardoin (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Laenini) from Madagascar, with remarks on tribal assignment 1, ZooKeys 326, pp. 55-67 : 63-64

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.326.5871

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scientific name

Mimolaena pauliani Ardoin, 1961
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Mimolaena pauliani Ardoin, 1961 Fig. 9

Reexamined type-material.

C Madagascar, Plateau Soaindrana, Andringitra-Ambalavao, 2090 m, 16.I.1958, leg. R. Paulian, male holotype and 1 male paratype MNHN.

Diagnostic characters.

Body length 4.4-4.8 mm. Pronotum subquadrate, with rounded anterior and posterior angles, surface flat and with sparse and fine punctation. Elytra with distinct punctural rows without striae, size of the punctures diminishing laterally and apically. Aedeagus not examined herein (because of the fragility of the type). It is said (but not figured) in the description, that the apicale is short and acute at the tip, and the basale is long and bent.