Traglostus Schedl, 1938

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Traglostus Schedl, 1938

Type species. Traglostus exornatus Schedl, 1938 .

(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

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

Distribution. Africa ( Kenya).

Remarks. Pronotum and elytra are very much as in Lanurgus , but female Traglostus 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 , two of which are synonymized under other species in that genus ( Beaver 2011).