Cladoctonus Strohmeyer
Creators
- 1. Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen; University of Bergen, P. O. 7800; NO- 5020 Bergen, Norway
Description
Cladoctonus Strohmeyer
Type species: Cladoctonus affinis Strohmeyer, 1911: 17.
Diagnosis. Antennal club spherical, sutures poorly marked, funiculus (including the pedicel) 6-segmented; male frons convex and uniformly punctured, female frons variously modified; pronotum densely punctured, surface rough; elytral base procurved, dentated, at beginning of interstriae 4–6 strial punctures more strongly impressed producing a rough short longitudinal ridge; most interstriae on declivity sharply granulated; interstriae 9 long and carinate, interstriae 10 short, reaching level of metacoxae; protibiae with 4–6 socketed denticles at apical lateral margin.
Distribution: pantropical; five species in Africa. Almost all records are from dry bushland, open savannas, or sandy soil habitats (Fig. 21).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Cladoctonus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Strohmeyer
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Strohmeyer, H. (1911) Zwei weitere neue Borkenkafer aus Abessynien. Entomologische Blatter, 7, 16 - 18.