Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl, 1951

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, An integrated taxonomic revision of Ctonoxylon (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) reveals new Malagasy species originating from multiple recent colonisations of the island, ZooKeys 1203, pp. 95-130 : 95-130

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1203.123757
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scientific name	Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl
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Treatment

Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl View in CoL

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Ctonoxylon spathifer Schedl, 1951: 39 View in CoL .

Type material.

Syntypes: [ Ivory Coast] Cote d’Ivoire, Reserve du Banco [5.39, - 4.05] [ MNHN, NHMW] .

Diagnosis.

Length 2.6–3.1 mm. 2.3–2.4 × as long as broad; colour reddish brown. Eyes divided, separated by the size of upper part; antennal club setose, sutures obscure; male frons roughly punctured, glabrous in middle, with short coarse setae close to the eyes; pronotum with dense subconfluent asperities on anterior two-thirds, a fused pair of teeth just behind front margin; lateral anterior margin of prothorax from middle part to coxa with shallow irregular groove; propleural pit round, deep; elytral striae impressed, punctures large, deep, narrowly separated; vestiture on interstriae consisting of densely confused, short, scale-like setae; elytral suture straight, apex narrowly rounded, entire.

Distribution.

Ivory Coast, Ghana (new country), Tanzania.

New record.

Ghana, Samreboi [5.61, - 2.55], ex Trichilia rubescens , 10. IX. 1962, F. G. Browne, leg. [2, NHMUK] .

Biology.

Known to breed in Olea welwitschii ( Oleaceae ), Pachylobus deliciosus ( Burseraceae ), Strombosia postulata ( Olacaceae ), and Trichilia rubescens ( Meliaceae ), an unusually broad assemblage of host plants for a true bark beetle.