Coleocydnus madagascariensis J. A. LIS

Coleocydnus madagascariensis J. A. LIS

(Figs 2, 6-7)

Coleocydnus madagascariensis J. A. LIS, 1996: 347 .

DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS

Body (Fig. 2) black, 6.85-7.45 mm in length, 4.19-4.44 mm in width. Head punctate with numerous tiny, hardly visible punctures; clypeus entirely free, without a subapical pair of setigerous punctures; each paraclypeus with a row of 3-4 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae; eyes narrow, moderately large, ocular index 3.50-4.20; 3 rd antennal segment only about 0.85-0.95 times as long as the 2 nd segment; rostrum reaching mid coxae. Pronotum subquadrate in outline, its disc sparsely punctate; each lateral margin with a row of 5 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae. Propleuron alutaceous, with numerous wrinkles on its anterior convexity, and numerous coarse punctures in the depression. Scutellum with numerous well separated coarse punctures, larger than those of the pronotum. Mesocorium densely punctate only posteriorly (Fig. 2), punctures of different sizes, small to large; costa flattened, separated from exocorium only in its basal third, bearing two setigerous punctures; membrane small, flap-like, not reaching the tip of abdomen. Abdominal sterna coarsely punctate and transversely striated laterally. Female spermatheca with small proximal flange, and elongated pump region (Fig. 7).

MATERIAL EXAMINED MADAGASCAR: Holotype female, Madagascar, Foret de Kirindy, März 1990, leg. M. BUTTERWECK et al. ( SMNS) ; 3 paratype females, the same data as the holotype ( SMNS, DBUO) .

DISTRIBUTION

Known only from Madagascar, so far.