Apatenia sulcicollis Frieser, 2000

Trýzna, Miloš & Rakotonirina, Jean Claude, 2024, A new species of Apatenia Pascoe (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from central Madagascar, with a key to species, additions to the distribution of rare species of the genus, and general notes about threats to anthribid diversity, Zootaxa 5537 (3), pp. 325-347 : 339

Apatenia sulcicollis Frieser, 2000

( Figs 26 , 32 )

Apatenia sulcicollis Frieser, 2000: 39 , 51: fig. 5 (black and white dorsal habitus). Rheinheimer 2004: 221, fig. 93 (dorsal habitus)

Type material. Holotype (female): East MADAGASCAR, TOAMASINA PROvINCE: ‘Madagascar / Moramanga env. / 10.–18.xii.1997 / P. Pacholátko leg. // HOLOTYPE [p, red label] // Apatenia / sulcicollis sp. n. / Holotypus [mark for female] [h] / det. R. Frieser [p] 2000 [h]’ ( ZSMC).

Note: Frieser described this species based only a single female specimen.

Other material. 1 male: Moramanga env., 27.–30.xii.1996, Ivo Jeniš leg. ( Fig. 26 ) ( MTDC) ; 1 female: Andasibe-Mantadia N. P., Analamazaotra forest [S 18°56´45.0´´, E 48°25´08.0´´, 955 m], 2.–14.ii.2007, M. Trýzna leg. ( MTDC) ; 2 males, 5 females: Andasibe N. P., Analamazaotra, circuit Indri 2, S 18°56´45´´, E 48°25´33´´, 968 m, 23.–29.xii.2016, M. Trýzna leg. ( MTDC) ; 1 male: Andasibe (Maromizaha) , 20.-23.ii.1995, Ivo Jeniš leg. ( MTDC) ; 1 male: [wihout locality label], Muséum Paris , ex Coll. R. Oberthür, 1952 [typical blue acquisition label of MNHN] ( MNHN) .

Diagnosis. Disc of pronotum with one pair, and elytra with two pairs of distinct tubercles on interstriae II in sub-basal and median area. Antennomeres IX–XI enlarged and significantly elongate in both sexes. This is the largest Malagasy Apatenia with the size of the body 5.5–10.3 mm.

Distribution and biology. So far this species is known only from remaining rainforests on the eastern part of Madagascar, specifically from areas surrounding Moramanga and nearby Analamazaotra National Park, here in the secondary but well-preserved forest at an elevation of about 960 m a.s.l. where it was found on drying and dead wood of smaller dimensions (up to 20 cm in diameter). The specific habitat requirement of species remains unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 32. Distribution of selected rare Apatenia species. Triangle–type locality, circle–other distribution.

FIGURES 23–26. Malagasy Apatenia species, habitus in dorsal view. 23, A. quadristigma Frieser, 1981 (female); 24, A. oculifera Frieser 2000 (male); 25, A. stysi Trýzna & Baňař, 2013 (paratype, female); 26, A. sulcicollis Frieser, 2000 (male).