Eleoselinus villiersi (Ardoin, 1965) Ardoin, 1965

Kaminski, Marcin Jan, 2014, A cladistically based reinterpretation of the taxonomy of two Afrotropical tenebrionid genera Ectateus Koch, 1956 and Selinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Platynotina), ZooKeys 415, pp. 81-132 : 98

Eleoselinus villiersi (Ardoin, 1965) comb. n. Fig. 58

Ectateus villiersi Ardoin, 1965: 964. - Iwan 2002b: 266; Iwan and Banaszkiewicz 2007: 729; Kamiński 2011: 648 (in Kamiński and Raś 2011).

Studied material.

Holotype, male (MNHN): "Brazzaville, Congo, V-1963", “Muséum Paris, Mission A. Descarpentries et A. Villers, 1963-1964". Other specimens, female (MNHN): “Allotype” same data as holotype, 7 males and 9 females (MNHN): "Juil 1959, Brazzaville, Congo. L. Vincent", male "Kimpoko, Kongo", female (MNHN): “Muséum Paris, Congo, Brazzaville, Mission Chari-Tchad, Dr J. Decorse 1904".

Redescription.

Habitus as in Fig. 58. Body length = 10.5-12.0 mm. Elytra wider and longer than pronotum (width ratio elytra / pronotum = 1.1-1.2; length ratio elytra / the middle of pronotum = 2.7-2.9).

Dorsal side of head dull, with fine punctures (the intervals between the punctures are greater than the 4 diameters of the puncture). Frontoclypeal suture fine. Clypeal emargination relatively deep (clypeal emargination width / depth ratio = 5.5-5.7). Mentum with median part wide. Submentum with short base. Maxillary palp not widened (width of maxillary palp / length of 3rd antennomere = 1.0-1.2). Length of antennae slightly greater than pronotal length (ratio antenna / pronotum from tip of anterior pronotal angle to tip of posterior pronotal angle ca. 0.9). 3rd antennomere relatively long (length ratio of antennomere 3rd / 2nd = 3.2-3.5).

Pronotal disc transverse (middle of pronotum length / width ratio = 0.5-0.6), dull, with fine punctures (the intervals between the punctures are greater than the 3 diameters of the puncture). Anterior pronotal angles rounded and slightly protruding towards apex. Lateral margins of pronotal disc narrowing towards apex. Apophyseal and basal depressions on pronotal disc present. Pronotal hypomera dull, without punctures.

Elytra oblong (elytra length / width ratio = 1.1-1.3). Elytral striae with fine punctures (the intervals between the punctures are greater than the 4 diameters of the puncture). Elytral intervals dull, non-convex, without punctures. Elytral base slightly sinusoidal. Elytral humeri rounded, not protruding laterad. Wings absent. Scutellum triangular.

Intercoxal process of prosternum bellied. Metaventrite reduced (length ratio cavity of hind coxa / metaventrite between the insertions of mid and hind coxae ca. 2); with longitudinal depression. In both sexes abdominal process without tubercles; relatively narrow (process of 1st abdominal ventrite / process of metaventrite = 2.1-2.2). 5th abdominal ventrite without bordering; punctures fine (the intervals between the punctures are greater than the 2 diameters of the puncture).

Legs. Protarsi slightly narrow. Legs simple.

Male genitalia. Parameres narrowing towards apex; length equal to the 0.2 of the rest of aedeagal tegmen. Clavae hook-shaped. Female genitalia. Paraproct equal to coxites. Coxites narrow and long. Bursa copulatrix without sclerites.

Distribution.

This species has been collected in the following ecoregion Central Africa (Republic of the Congo).