Dejongiella cavifrons (Fairmaire) Fairmaire, 2003

Bellamy, C. L., 2003, The Madagascan Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae): Part 4, New genera and species, Zootaxa 174, pp. 1-19 : 4

Dejongiella cavifrons (Fairmaire) , comb. nov.

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Discoderes cavifrons Fairmaire 1904: 234 (orig. desc.); Théry 1905: 178; Marie & Lesne 1917: 40. Phlocteis cavifrons: Obenberger 1928: 341 ; 1934: 796; Bellamy 2001b: 66.

Specimens examined. Holotype (gender indet.) (MNHN): Soalala, H. Perrier; 2 spms. (CASC): Madagascar, Bekiley, xii.1943, det. Descarpentries.

Remarks. This little species is neither a Discoderes Chevrolat, 1838 (type species: Agrilus salzmanni Solier, 1833 , original designation) nor a Phlocteis Kerremans, 1893 (type species: Buprestis exasperata Swartz , in Schönherr, 1817, original designation), the two genera where it has been placed in the past, as currently defined ( Bellamy 1986, 1988a, 1988b). No members of the former genus are known to occur on Madagascar, while two species of Phlocteis are known from the island ( Bellamy 2001a). Discoderes is represented by two species: D. salzmanni (Solier) is known from Subsaharan Africa including records for Ethiopia, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal is probably naturally distributed in the thorn­scrub savanna immediately below the southern boundary of the Sahara Desert. The second species, D. villiersi Descarpentries, 1952 is known only from Benin. These two species are moderate­sized coraebines, relatively elongate, flattened above, with the upper surface uniform in color, aeneneous ( D. villiersi ) to black ( D. salzmanni ) with the head only very feebly longitudinally sulcate, with the upper surface notably patterned with setal spots and short fasciae (white on D. salzmanni or cream­colored on D. villiersi ). The five species of Phlocteis differ by having both the head and pronotum with narrow, moderately elevated gibbosities, four on the frontovertex.