Ctonoxylon hirtellum Schedl, 1971

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Ctonoxylon hirtellum Schedl

Figs 12 , 15 , 18

Ctonoxylon hirtellum Schedl, 1971: 9 .

Type material.

Holotype, male: Congo Belge [ Democratic Republic of the Congo], Yangambi , 2. VII. 1952, K. E. Schedl leg. [ NHMW].

Diagnosis.

Length 1.5 mm, 2.1 × as long as wide, colour pale brown. Eye parts closely separated (by scapus thickness); pronotal eye scraper weakly developed, faint carina near anterior lateral margin from scraper to coxa, without associated groove or propleural pit; scutellar shield at same level as elytra; elytral striae impressed, punctures slightly elongated, separated by 2–3 × their diameter; elytral vestiture consisting of long hairlike setae separated within rows by a little less than their length; elytral apex slightly extended with sharp tubercles along the posterior margin.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biology.

Nothing known except collected in a tropical lowland rainforest.

Figures

Figures 12–20. Dorsal, lateral, and front views of 12, 15, 18 Ctonoxylon hirtellum male holotype 13, 16, 19 Ctonoxylon festivum female holotype, and 14, 17, 20 Ctonoxylon dentigerum male holotype, syn. nov. (= Ctonoxylon festivum).