Ptilium pernix Darby, 2018

Darby, Michael, 2019, Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 6: New species and records collected by W. C. Block in Kenya and Uganda, 1964 - 1965, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 155, pp. 239-257 : 242

Ptilium pernix Darby, 2018

( Figs 3 A–C)

Remarks: Described from a single specimen collected in Angola (Darby 2018) and not known from any other country since. Superficially similar to Ptenidium with a rounded and polished dorsal surface but the pronotum is without foveae, and the procoxae are contiguous without a keel. Figures of the pronotal margin, scutellum, and elytral humerus, not included in my original description, are now added.

Material examined

♀, UGANDA: Mpanga Forest , 25 miles N. Kampala, 0°12′N, 32°17′E, ix.1965, leg. W. C. Block , B. M. 1978-472 ( BMNH).

Figures

Fig. 3. — Ptilium pernix Darby, A, habitus; B, elytral humerus showing serrations ×1320; C, lateral edge of pronotum showing serrations ×1320; D, scutellum showing circular depressions ×1420.