Alphitobius limbalis Fairmaire, 1901

Schawaller, Wolfgang & Grimm, Roland, 2014, The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands, ZooKeys 415, pp. 169-190 : 180

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.415.6676

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23D45EAE-2FBE-42D2-9BA6-E3775704C29D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F0F61D2F-A326-ED23-84D7-6BD16902ECDE

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scientific name

Alphitobius limbalis Fairmaire, 1901
status

 

Alphitobius limbalis Fairmaire, 1901 Fig. 17

Type specimens examined.

Without any data, 1 female “cotype” NHMB (Gebien collection).

Remarks.

It seems doubtful to the authors, if the above listed female (body length 6 mm) without any data is really a type specimen. Other material of this taxon is unknown to the authors. The species is said to be similar to Alphitobius luctuosus (synonym of Alphitobius crenatus (Klug, 1833) ( Fairmaire 1901), but is characterised by larger body size (6 mm), rounder pronotum and larger punctures in elytral striae.

Type locality.

“Bélumbé”.

Distribution.

Madagascar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Alphitobius