Afrocosmoderes madagascariensis (Schedl)

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Ptilopodius madagascariensis Schedl, 1961: 133.

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

Type material. Holotype female: MADAGASCAR, Joffreville, 600m, 16.XII.1952, Dr K. E. Schedl leg. [MNHN]; paratypes: same data as holotype [NHMW].

Diagnosis. Antennal club 3-segmented; metanepisternal setae split; elytral ground vestiture scale-like; spatulate interstrial setae near lateral margin mixed with bristle-like setae.

Redescription, female. Length 1.2 to 1.3 mm, 2.2 ×as long as wide, color dark brown. Frons flattened, rugose, with a short longitudinal obtuse carina just above epistoma; eyes deeply emarginated; antennal funiculus 3-segmented. Pronotum with coarse asperities on anterior half. Elytral striae not impressed, vestiture consisting of elongated spatulate interstrial setae, near lateral margins mixed with fine bristles; ground vestiture of scale-like minute setae. Metanepisternal setae long and split. Protibiae with 5 or 6 lateral denticles on apical half.

Male not known.

Distribution. Madagascar. It is only known from a northern mountain rainforest locality near Montagne d’Ambre.

Comments. Type specimens have some characters hidden by glue and some setae are abraded. DNA sequences were previously submitted to GenBank under this name (Pistone et al. 2018) but those sequences are from A. zambesianus sp. nov.