Cladoctonus affinis Strohmeyer, 1911

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, An illustrated key to the Afrotropical bark beetle species of Cladoctonus Strohmeyer (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) - a genus of rare cossonine look-alikes, Zootaxa 5514 (6), pp. 577-584 : 578

Cladoctonus affinis Strohmeyer

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Cladoctonus affinis Strohmeyer, 1911: 17

Cladoctonus eggersi Wichmann, 1911: 174 , syn. nov.

Type material. Holotype, male: Aethiopia [ Ethiopia] [ SDEI]. Holotype(?) of C. eggersi : Aethiopia, Harra, G. Kristensen, leg. [ NHMW] .

Diagnosis. Length 2.2–2.4 mm, 2.1–2.3 × as long as wide; male frons uniformly punctured; female frons with a central shining impunctate area; elytral surface strongly rugose, strial punctures irregular and variable in size but much larger than interstrial punctures; all declivital interstriae with sharp granules.

Distribution: Ethiopia, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, South Africa.

New record: South Africa, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Mkhuze Game res. [-27.64, 32.16], 100 m, at light, 1.12.2012, leg. M. Wanat [ UWCP].

Biology. Collected from Acacia Fabaceae ), presumably a dead branch.

Comments. The holotype in the Wichmann collection is in NHMW. This type is identical to the holotype of C. affinis in the Strohmeyer collection [ SDEI]. A published record from the Côte D’Ivoire is not verified and may be of a different species.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Dorsal, posterior, lateral and front view of females in Cladoctonus affinis (1–4) and Cladoctonus natalensis (5–8).