Traglostus Schedl, 1938

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, A phylogenetic and taxonomic assessment of Afrotropical Micracidini (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) reveals a strong diversifying role for Madagascar, Organisms Diversity & Evolution 21 (1), pp. 245-278 : 267-268

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https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13127-021-00481-4

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scientific name

Traglostus Schedl, 1938
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Traglostus Schedl, 1938 View in CoL

Type species. Traglostus exornatus Schedl, 1938 View in CoL .

(Figs. 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 73)

Diagnosis. Antennal scapus short, funicle 6-segmented, club finely pubescent without sutures. Female mandibles with a pair of sharp spines directed upwards, frons concave in both sexes, female frons with two long tufts of setae curved up and forward. Elytra with confused rows of bristle-like setae of variable length and thickness, male elytra with a pair of spines at base of declivity.

Included species:

Traglostus exornatus Schedl, 1938 View in CoL

Excluded species: Traglostus longipilus Schedl, 1958 ; Traglostus pubescens Schedl, 1941 View in CoL , to Lanurgus View in CoL . Traglostus brevisetosus Schedl, 1957 View in CoL and T. spathulatus Schedl, 1982 were transferred to Lanurgus View in CoL by Beaver (2011), as synonyms of other Lanurgus species.

Distribution. Africa ( Kenya).

Remarks. Pronotum and elytra are very much as in Lanurgus View in CoL , but female Traglostus View in CoL differs particularly by the two peculiar long spines on the mandibles directed dorsally. Until DNA data become available it seems prudent to treat this taxon as a valid genus. Four previous members of the genus are now in Lanurgus View in CoL , two of which are synonymized under other species in that genus ( Beaver 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

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