Pseudolanurgus bugekeae ( Schedl, 1957 )

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, New species and records of Pseudolanurgus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Tanzania and Madagascar, Zootaxa 5072 (6), pp. 592-598 : 595-596

Pseudolanurgus bugekeae ( Schedl, 1957)

( Figs 11, 13, 15 )

Hylocurus bugekeae Schedl, 1957: 69 , original spelling

Pseudomicracis bugekeae ( Schedl, 1957) , combination in Wood and Bright, 1992

Pseudolanurgus bugekeae ( Schedl, 1957) , combination in Jordal, 2021b

Type material. Holotype (sex?): Congo Belge, Hembe-Bitale, K.E. Schedl [ RMCA] . Paratypes, male and female (3): Congo Belge, Mt. Kahuzi St. , 23viii.1952, K.E. Schedl [ NHMW] .

Diagnosis. Length 2.0 mm, 2.8 × as long as wide. Female(?) frons strongly concave, in lateral view distinctly notched at upper level of eyes; vestiture in frons short; pronotal vestiture entirely hair-like; interstrial setae uniseriate, mainly hair-like, on declivity hair- to bristle-like.

Distribution and biology. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Only known from two nearby localities in eastern highlands of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the South Kivu region ( Schedl 1957). It was collected from the bark or cortex of Landolphia subrepanda (Apocynaceae) and Hypericum revolutum (Hypericaceae) .

Remarks. Fairly similar to P. minutissimus but has a more deeply impressed female frons with shorter setae, and fine interstrial setae. The male frons appears slightly less impressed and less setose.

Figures

FIGURES 11–17. Dorsal, lateral and front view of Pseudolanurgus bugekeae female paratype (11, 13, 15); Pseudolanurgus mystax sp. nov. female holotype (12, 14, 16) and male allotype (17).