Pleophylla ferruginea, BURMEISTER, 1855

PLEOPHYLLA FERRUGINEA BURMEISTER, 1855 View in CoL ( FIGS 3A – D View Figure 3 , 5G View Figure 5 , 6)

Pleophylla ferruginea Burmeister, 1855: 181 View in CoL [type locality: Weihnachtsbai [i.e. Durban](Ecklon)]; Schaufuss, 1871: 231; Brenske, 1900: 84; Peringuey, 1904: 8.

Type material examined: Lectotype (here designated): ♂ “ferruginea Eckl. Pt. nat. Eck./Martin- Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg Zentralmagazin Naturw. Sammlungen 08/03/12 03.Jul. 2014 ” ( MLUH).

Additional material examined: See Appendix S1.

Description: Body length: 10.3 mm, elytral length: 7.0 mm, maximum width: 5.0 mm. Angle between lateral margins of labroclypeus and ocular canthus indistinct; anterior margin of labroclypeus medially straight; margins of labroclypeus moderately reflexed; smooth area in front of eyes twice as wide as long; ratio of eye diameter/interocular width: 0.76. Pronotum with dense and thick erect setae; unicoloured. Hypomeron not carinate. Basal margin of pronotum narrowly interrupted medially (distinctly less than scutellum width); larger punctures on pronotum very coarse. Elytra with dark spots; erect dorsal pilosity on elytra dense (more than ten setae per interval); sutural interval in apical declivity of elytra delimited by a sharp carina; white, fine pilosity not condensed to longitudinal patches; intervals punctate at least laterally; adpressed white pilosity long, 1/3 to 1/2 of width of elytral intervals; external apical elytral angle evenly convex. Mesosternal process short. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/1.43. Metatibia, ratio of width/length: 1/ 4.4. Metatarsi dorsally smooth; first metatarsomere as long as subsequent one. Aedeagus: Fig. 3A – C View Figure 3 . Habitus: Fig. 3D View Figure 3 . Female genitalia: Fig. 5G View Figure 5 .

Remarks: Pleophylla transvaalica is an invalid ‘in litteris’ name of a specimen without a locality label that is housed in ZMHB (ex coll. Brenske) but originally came from Peringuey ( SAMC). In previous publications we referred to this species as ‘sp10’ (Ozg € ul-Siemund € & Ahrens, 2015; Eberle et al., 2016b).