Xyloctonus genieri, Jordal, 2024

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, Integrated taxonomy, biology and biogeography of the Afrotropical genus Xyloctonus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1), pp. 67-84 : 67

Xyloctonus genieri sp. nov.

Figs 36 , 39 , 42

Type material.

Holotype: Burkina Faso, Comoe, Foret de Boulon [10.343, -4.510], 270 m alt., F. Genier leg., 10.7.2006, in Malaise trap [CMNC].

Diagnosis.

Eyes emarginated, not divided. Antennal club with one faint procurved suture. Anterior margin of pronotum with four equally-sized, raised teeth.

Description.

Length 1.6 mm, 2.1 × as long as wide; colour black. Frons convex, transversely impressed just above epistoma, surface finely rugose, vestiture scant. Eyes deeply sinuate, broadly emarginated. Antennal funiculus 6-segmented, club finely pubescent, basal suture procurved, others not visible. Pronotum coarsely asperate on anterior two-thirds, asperities transversely elongated; anterior margin with four raised teeth. Scutellar shield subquadrate, with four small tubercles. Elytral striae reticulated, punctures shallow, irregular; interstriae carinated throughout; interstriae 9 reaching elytral suture; elytral suture straight. Metaventrite and nearby sclerites and ventrite I with bifid setae.

Distribution and biology.

Only known from the type locality in a very dry bushland, collected in a Malaise trap.

Etymology.

Named after the coleopterist François Génier who collected the type specimen in Burkina Faso.

Figures

Figures 34 - 42. Dorsal, lateral and front view of X. bimarginatus (34, 37, 40); X. maculatus (35, 38, 41); X. genieri, holotype (36, 39, 42).