Adoretus (Lepadoretus) hanoti, Limbourg, 1844

Limbourg, Pol, 1844, Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Rutelinae VI (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 80, pp. 1-41 : 1-41

Adoretus (Lepadoretus) hanoti sp. nov.

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TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé , Daloa, X.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC).

Paratypes: 1♂, 1♀: same collection data as for holotype [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., don P. Limbourg, I.G.: 33.944] ( RBINS) ; 1♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé (Daloa), II.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂, 2♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, III.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 2♂, 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa , IV.1962, J. Decelle] [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., don P. Limbourg, I.G.: 33.944] (1♂: RBINS; 1♂, 1♀: MRAC) ; 3♂, 3♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé , Daloa, V.1962, J. Decelle] (1♂: MFNB; 1♂: BMNH; 1♂: MSPC; 3♀: MRAC) ; 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, VI.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, VIII.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂, 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, IX.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, X.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 2♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghé, Daloa, III.1969, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghe-Koffikro (Daloa), IV.1961, J. Decelle] [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., don P. Limbourg, I.G.: 33.944] ( RBINS) ; 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghe-Koffikro (Daloa), VII.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghe-Koffikro (Daloa), VIII.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghe-Koffikro (Daloa), IX.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN,

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Côte d’Ivoire: Zepreghe-Koffikro (Daloa), X.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂, 2♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Korea, au Sud de Daloa , VI.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂, 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Korea, au Sud de Daloa , X.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Korea, S. de Daloa, IV/ V.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Yokopa, près de Gagnoa, III.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂, 1♀: [Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Yokopa , près de Gagnoa, IV.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♂: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Yokopa, près de Gagnoa, VI.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Yokopa, près de Gagnoa, XI.1961, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 1♀: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Dibi, N. d’Aboisso, XII.1962, J. Decelle] ( MRAC) ; 2♂: [ Coll. MUS. TERVUREN, Côte d’Ivoire: Koun-Abronso, III.1962, J. Decelle] [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., don P. Limbourg, I.G.: 33.944] (1♂: MRAC; 1♂: RBINS) .

DESCRIPTION:

Male

Measurements ♂: length: 8–9 mm, width: 3.5–4 mm.

Body: Laterally slightly convex, relatively elongate, slightly bent, broader in middle of elytra; abdomen concave; short process at base of prosternum rounded; entirely brownish with blackish irregular desquamulate patches on pronotum and elytra, pygidium blackish-brown, legs brown; antennae yellowish; slightly shining.

Head: broad, clypeus rounded, totally reflexed; clypeus and frons covered with tubercles; antennae with 10 antennomeres, with club longer than funicle.

Thorax: pronotum rectangular, wider than long; sides uniformly rounded from base to apex; with all margins carinate; anterior angles slightly projecting and reaching posterior margin of eyes; with close shallow horseshoe-punctures; blackish desquamulate patches microreticulate; impressed point on lateral margins.

Scutellar shield rather triangular with rounded sides, with shallow horseshoe-punctures.

Elytra: longer than wide; epipleura complete; primary costae slightly more convex than intervals; all secondary striae with close horseshoe-shaped punctures; striae formed by a line of close horseshoe-shaped punctures; humeral calli marked, apical calli strongly marked; apex of elytra coarsely punctuated, glabrous below calli.

Pygidium: triangular with apex rounded, carinate along anal plate; strigate; slightly projecting postero-ventrally, and not surpassing apex of elytra.

Venter: upper part of metaventrite with close shallow horseshoe-shaped punctures, sparsely towards median part; abdominal ventrites with close shallow horseshoe-shaped punctures, imbricate puncture along the base.

Legs: protibiae tridentate; pro- and mesotarsal larger claws cleft; metatarsus with larger claw twice longer than smaller one and uncleft.

Hairs: dorsal side covered with short yellowish-white, squamous, decumbent setae; closer along sutural striae from disc to apex and after declivity; five to seven tufts of close longer yellowish-white scales around humeral calli, the largest with longer setae on top of humeral calli; long separated erected yellowish setae on antennae, on canthus and along lateral margins to declivity of elytra.

Underside covered with longer yellowish-white, squamous, decumbent setae, slightly longer and closer on sides of mesoventrite, absent on median part of abdomen; sparse long decumbent brownish-yellow setae inserted in setigerous punctures, one single on meso and metacoxae, transversal line on abdominal ventrites, closer along anal plate; close long decumbent yellowish-white setae along anterior and posterior margins of prosternum, longer and erected on base of labium; pygidium covered with separated yellowish-white squamous

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setae, short and decumbent on base, progressively longer and erected to disc; sides, disc and apex glabrous.

Outer and inner sides of protibiae, metatibiae and outer sides of mesotibiae with short, yellowish-white, squamous, decumbent, setae; inner sides of mesotibiae desquamulate; inner margins of protibiae with a line of close long, erected brownish setae.

Aedeagus: in lateral view, parameres not perpendicular to median part, ventrally and dorsally straight; in dorsal view, base lobate in middle part; lateral margins of parameres rather parallel from base to middle part, rounded to apex; apex notched.

Female

Measurements ♀: length: 8.5–9.5 mm, width: 4–4.5 mm.

Differs from ♂ by: larger, laterally more convex and abdomen convex; antennae with club as long as funicle; pygidium strongly projecting postero-ventrally and not surpassing apex of elytra; protibiae with apical teeth broader.

DERIVATIO NOMINIS.

Dedicated to Stéphane Hanot (Ecaussinnes, Belgium).

DISTRIBUTION. Known from Ivory Coast.

BIOLOGY. The species was collected from February to August and from October to December.