Salcedia tuberculata BALKENOHL, 2019

Balkenohl, Michael, 2020, Salcedia FAIRMAIRE, 1899 from Africa with descriptions of the two new species S. bembereka nov. sp. and S. occidentalis nov. sp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae, Salcediini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1), pp. 127-140 : 130

Salcedia tuberculata BALKENOHL, 2019

N e w r e c o r d: 1♀, S.Afr; Kruger Nat. Pk PundaMariaNgotsodam 21.26 S – 31.14 E / 7.2.1994; E-Y: 2984 shorewashing leg. Endrödy-Younga / Salcedia africana (BRITT.) det. M.Baehr’ 03 ( DNMP) .

R e m a r k s S. tuberculata was described on the basis of one male (BALKENOHL 2019). The female was unknown until today. With the new record at hand the female coxostylus is described here, and Tab. 2 is amended.

Female genitalia (Fig. 9). Coxostylus sclerotized, slender, distinctly curved, with indistinct short carina dorsally in apical third, apex somewhat rounded, at end of basal third with one strong and seven slender nematiform setae laterally, SSO with one extremely fine microtrichium.

O c c u r r e n c e: The species is known from the River Limpopo. This second find confirms the first record.