Lanurgus carinatus Jordal, 2021

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, The mainly South African genus Lanurgus revised (Coleoptera, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 5027 (1), pp. 87-106 : 100-103

Lanurgus carinatus Jordal sp. nov.

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( Figs 48, 51, 54 )

Type material. Holotype male: [ South Africa] Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, Headquarter Table Mt. Nat. Park , 4.xii.2007, leg. W. Mey. Holotype deposited in ZMHB.

Diagnosis. Antennal club two times as long as broad. Interstriae 7 sharply carinate; interstrial setae spatulate, in rows on disk, increasingly broader and confused on declivity.

Description, male. Length 1.7 mm, 2.5 × as long as wide. Colour black. Frons broadly, shallowly concave between eyes, from epistoma to upper level of eyes; surface smooth with scant short setae. Eyes approximately separated above by 3 × their width (not fully visible). Antennal scapus short, as long as broad with few setae not longer than scapus; funiculus 6-segmented; club setose, 2 × as long as broad, with two procurved sutures obscurely marked. Pronotum with scattered asperities on anterior half, anterior margin with two small tubercles; posterior half reticulate; vestiture mainly consisting of short and longer bristle-like and spatulate setae. Scutellum with plumose setae. Elytral interstriae on disc with regular rows of broad spatulate setae, on declivity setae becomes increasingly broader and confused; strial setae hair-like, recumbent, in single rows. Legs. Protibiae with three denticles on the apical margin.

Female. Not known.

Etymology. The Latin nominative adjective carinatus , meaning to have a narrow keel (carinate), refers to the continuous sharp carinae along most of interstriae 7.

Distribution. South Africa. Only known from the type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 48–56. Dorsal, lateral and frontal view of Lanurgus carinatus sp. nov. male holotype (48, 51, 54), Lanurgus subsulcatus male holotype (49, 52), female (50, 53, 56) and male (55).