Adoretus constanti, Limbourg, 2014

Limbourg, Pol, 2014, Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Rutelinae III (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Melolonthidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 17, pp. 1-33 : 1-33

Adoretus constanti sp. nov.

(Figs 36­ 37, 78)

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED: Holotype ♂: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., TANZANIA E., Utete , Rufiji Prov. (08°02.8’S / 38°52.4’E), 23.XII.2006, Leg. Halada & Snizek] ( RBINS).

DESCRIPTION.

♂: length: 7 mm, breadth: 3.5 mm; ratio LB/lB (n = 1): 1.79.

Laterally convex, short, dorsally flat, broader before declivity; totally brown except femora and tibia yellow, abdomen blackish; shining.

Head (eye to eye) broad, clypeus rounded and excavate, margin totally reflexed; vertex punctate like frons.

Antennae 10­ segmented, with club longer than funicle.

Pronotum rectangular, broader than long; ratio LP/lP (n = 1): 0.48; sides regularly rounded from base to apex, with all margins carinate; anterior angles not projecting and not reaching posterior margin of eyes; punctured with deep rounded points.

Apex of scutellum rounded, disc strongly punctate.

Elytra longer than broad; ratio LE/lE (n = 1): 1.39; epipleura complete; costae slightly elevated; intervals strongly punctate.

Humeral and apical calli slightly marked.

Pygidium laterally rounded, carinate, not projecting postero­ventrally, and not surpassing apex of elytra.

Abdomen concave; short process at base of prosternum rounded.

Protibia tridentate; pro­ and mesotarsal larger claw cleft; metatarsus with larger claw twice longer than outer one.

Dorsum and ventrum covered with short, squamous, white, decumbent scales; longer on head and on pronotum; close on disc of scutellum and on sides on sternites; sparse, short, erected brownish setae on lateral margins from eyes to apex of elytra; disc of pygidium covered with long, close, white, erected setae.

Aedeagus: parameres dorsally parallel and elongate, short separated yellowish setae from middle to apex, sinuate; laterally straight from base to middle part, strongly sinuate ventrally to apex.

♀: unknown.

DERIVATIO NOMINIS. Friendly dedicated to my fucking bastard colleague Jérôme Constant.

COMMENTS.

Comments are given under Adoretus disparilis Péringuey, 1902