Ptenidium, Erichson, 1845

Darby, Michael, 2019, Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 6: New species and records collected by W. C. Block in Kenya and Uganda, 1964 - 1965, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 155, pp. 239-257 : 240-241

Ptenidium sp.

( Figs 2 A–F)

Remarks: A single male of a species of Ptenidium that is very similar to P. lamdai Darby and P. tanalai Darby from Madagascar but cannot be confirmed with certainty as one of those species, or as a new species, in the absence of a female to check the form of the spermatheca.

Material examined

♂, UGANDA: Katabana , 14 miles N. Kampala, 0°29′N, 32°37′E, litter in papyrus swamp, leg. W. C. Block, B. M. 1978-472 ( BMNH) .

Figures

Fig. 2. — Ptenidium sp., A, habitus; Ba, Bb, aedeagus side and dorsal views; C, mentum and submentum ×1160; D, pronotum ×635; E, mesoventrum showing keel ×475; F, proventrum showing keel between procoxae ×1100.