The mainly South African genus Lanurgus revised (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) Jordal, Bjarte H. Zootaxa 2021 2021-08-30 5027 1 87 106 3S7YK Schedl, 1948 Schedl 1948 [151,582,1410,1437] Insecta Curculionidae Lanurgus Animalia Coleoptera 16 103 Arthropoda species spathulatus  ( Figs 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64)   Type material.  Female lectotypeand male allotype: South Africa, C.P., Grahamstown,  June 1937, J. Hewitt[ NHMW].   Diagnosis, female.Length 2.1–2.3 mm, 2.5 × as long as wide, colour black. Frons broadly, deeply concave from epistoma to vertex well above upper level of eyes, with longer setae near margins and shorter towards the centre; scapus with long dorsal spike with a long tuft of setae along the entire scapus, setae as long as the spike; antennal club setose with two strongly procurved sutures; scutellum with plumose scales; declivital interstriae 1 and 2 with few and small setae; interstrial setae on and near declivity short and broadly spatulate, confused, on disc with additional very long and narrowly spatulate setae; protibiae with three apical denticles. Malesimilar to female but declivity bears three pairs of sharp, curved spines on interstriae 2, 3 and 5, and antennal scapus rounded with short setae.   Distribution: South Africa.  New records.  South Africa, East Cape, Grahamstown[GIS: -33.31, 26.57],  June 1937,  J. Hewitt[ NHMUK]. Western Cape: Nature’s Valley[GIS: -33.965, 23.562], B. Jordal, leg.,  9.xi.2006# 8, ex  Cassine peragua; Wilderness, Ebbe Flow[GIS: -33.980, 22.613], B. Jordal, leg.,  31.x.2006, #2.   Biology.This species were previously reported from a variety of host plants, including Capesaffron,  Cassine peragua(Celastraceae)and  Cordia caffra(Boraginaceae)( Schedl 1965). New collections were made from Capesaffron. Thin branches of 2–5 cmdiameter were colonized by a male which was joined by either one or two females. Two broods of individual females contained 30 and 38 larvae, respectively. 1937-06 NHMW J. Hewitt South Africa Female Grahamstown 16 103 2 lectotype [365,1182,1914,1941] 1937-06 South Africa Grahamstown East 16 103 1 Western Cape 2006-11-09 NHMUK J. Hewitt & B. Jordal South Africa -33.965 Nature's Valley 72 23.562 16 103 1 Western Cape 2006-10-31 B. Jordal South Africa -33.98 Ebbe Flow 72 22.613 Wilderness 16 103 1