Lanurgus rhusi Schedl, 1962

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, The mainly South African genus Lanurgus revised (Coleoptera, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 5027 (1), pp. 87-106 : 100

Lanurgus rhusi Schedl, 1962

( Figs 39, 42, 45 )

Traglostus spatulatus Schedl, 1982 (syn. by Beaver 2011)

Type material. Female paratype: [ South Africa] Bronkhorstfontein, S.A. Hepburn, 20.11.59, Acx 1117 [ NHMW] .

Diagnosis, female. Length 2.0 mm, 2.6 × as long as wide, colour black. Scapus with long dorsal spike, with broad tuft of long golden setae; pedicel narrow and almost as long as scapus; antennal club with one procurved and a second slightly bisinuate suture; elytral interstriae with densely placed, broad, truncated setae in rows on disc, on declivital interstriae 3–9 moderately confused; elytral apex very broadly rounded, nearly transverse. Male not seen.

Distribution. South Africa.

Figures

FIGURES 39–47. Dorsal, lateral and frontal view of Lanurgus rhusi female paratype (39, 42, 45), Lanurgus xanthophloeae female holotype (40, 43, 46), and male (41, 44, 47).