Afrocosmoderes pellitus (Schedl)

Figures 7, 11, 12, 75, 78, 81

Erioschidias pellitus Schedl, 1953: 79

Afrocosmoderes pellitus (Schedl), combination by Jonson et al. (2020).

Material examined. Holotype and paratype, females: MADAGASCAR, Mt. d’Ambre [NHMW].

New record: MADAGASCAR, Diana prov., Montagne d‘Ambre [−12.54, 49.17], 1,000 m alt., ex Cananga odorata branch, 2.XI.2019, B. Jordal, leg. [ZMUB].

Diagnosis. Antennal funiculus 3-segmented; frons in both sexes with longitudinal carina; elytral ground vestiture hair-like; vestiture on abdominal ventrites fine bristles.

Description, male. Length 1.3 to 1.5mm, 2.2 to 2.5×as long as wide, color light brown. Frons convex, with sharp median carina from epistoma to vertex; eyes deeply emarginated; antennal funiculus 3-segmented. Pronotum on its anterior half with fine asperities and hair-like setae. Elytral striae not impressed; interstrial setae spatulate or subquadrate, separated within rows by less than their length; ground vestiture hair-like.Metanepisternal setae long, split or trifid; setae on abdominal ventrites thin and hair-like. Protibiae with 7 or 8 lateral denticles on apical half, metatibiae with 5 lateral denticles on apical third. Proventriculus with apical plate large, divided by a tuberculate medial suture, surface of some plates containing transverse row of rounded teeth, others entirely smooth. Male genitalia with apodemes shorter than penis body, basal sclerites consisting of rounded individual pieces, penis apically broadly rounded; spicule a simple curved rod.

Female externally similar to the male, except for the last abdominal ventrite.

Distribution and biology. Madagascar. Recollected here from the type locality in the northern part of the island. Mature specimens were dissected from a Cananga odorata branch (Annonaceae), which is an introduced tree used in the perfume industry (ylang-ylang tree).

Comments. This species is, together with A. longus sp. nov. and A. seriatus, the most elongated species in the genus.