Raunoloma longiceps (Linnavuori, 1977)

Raunoloma longiceps was originally described from Sudan by Linnavuori (1977), as the second species of the genus Endotylus Horváth, 1919 . Nearly 20 years later, the same author ( Linnavuori 1993) erected a new genus, Aloma , for this species. Aloma Linnavuori , however, is a junior homonym of Aloma Andrewes, 1931 (in Coleoptera ), and was therefore replaced with a new name, Raunoloma , by Lis (1999). Along with the type locality in South Sudan (Yei-Iwatoka road, the Aloma Plateau), this species has also been recorded from several other African countries, namely the Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone ( Linnavuori 1993). Male and female genitalia of this species were described and figured in detail in the revision of the Cydnidae of West, Central and North-East Africa by Linnavuori (1993).

The genus Raunoloma belongs to the tribe Geotomini in the subfamily Cydninae , and can be easily recognized within the African representatives of this tribe by using the identification key provided by Linnavuori (1993). R. longiceps ( Fig.1A) is a large black species, with fine body microsculpturing and a reduced number of body submarginal setae, i.e. the head with a single seta close to the eye on each paraclypeus, the pronotum with a few submarginal setae, and the hemelytra without setae on the costal margins.

The authors found a male specimen of R. longiceps ( Fig. 1A) when studying Cydnidae material sent for identification by the Zoological Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (Material examined: Uganda: Nyabyeya , 19, 01°40′N 31°32′E, 1160 m, 24.ix.1997, leg. Th. Wagner; first record from Uganda). GoogleMaps

This new locality expands the distribution range of this species by about 100 km to the east ( Fig. 1B).