Poecilomorpha cribricollis ( Pic, 1951 )

Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., 2025, Redescription of the African genus Poecilomorpha Hope, 1814 (Megalopodidae: Megalopodinae) and description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 987, pp. 264-280 : 274-275

Poecilomorpha cribricollis ( Pic, 1951)

Fig. 4

Macrolopha cribricollis Pic, 1951: 41 .

Macrolopha cribricollis – Rodríguez-Mirón 2018: 277 (checklist).

Poecilomorpha cribricollis – Rodríguez-Mirón et al. 2021 (phylogenetic treatment, nomenclatural change).

Type material

Holotype

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • ♂; “ MUSÉE DU CONGO , de Luebo á Mboi , -II:1923, L. Achten / R. DET., A, 5630/ HOLOTYPUS cribricollis Pic / desire / Macrolopha cribricrollis n sp / sg Micro colobaspis mihi”; RMCA.

Differential diagnosis

See P. pseudocribricollis sp. nov.

Redescription

Female

MEASUREMENTS AND COLORATION. Body length 7.4 mm, width 2.7 mm. Head, antennae, pronotum, elytra basal thirds orange; elytra apical two-thirds iridescent black; mandibles, legs and abdomen brown.

HEAD. Occiput coarsely punctate, interocular space coarsely and densely punctate, with long black setae, interspaces smooth, same wider than puncture diameter ( Fig. 3C ); surface of ocular canthus convex; margin of antennal awning prolonged onto canthi; antennae not reaching pronotal posterior edge, scapes 2.4 × as long as antennomere III, III as long as IV, V–X longer than wide; frontoclypeal groove straight; last maxillary palpomere robust, subconical, apex truncate; labial palpomere robust ( Fig. 4F ), almond-shaped, apex truncate.

THORAX. Pronotum ( Fig. 4D ) with disc coarsely punctate, with black pubescence, interspaces smooth, 1.5–2.4× as wide as puncture diameter, base 1.5× as wide as anterior margin, posterior angles rounded. Scutellum subtriangular, weakly punctate, mucronate at apex, with procumbent pubescence. Elytra ( Fig. 4A ) coarsely punctate, pubescence black, lacking carina along suture. Metepisternum ( Fig. 4E ) finely punctate and sparsely pubescent. Metaventrite convex, sparsely punctate, pubescent. Tibiae subcylindrical, with decumbent pubescence; metatibiae also slightly curved.

ABDOMEN. Pygidium horizontally produced, triangular, with the base longer than the lateral margins, sparsely punctate, pubescent, apex rounded; last abdomen ventrite with apical edge slightly emarginate.

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Remarks

Maurice Pic described Poecilomorpha cribricollis using material that he deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren ( Pic 1951: 41). He did not specify how many specimens he reviewed, nor did he indicate that there was more than one. The Megalopodidae section at the Royal Museum for Central Africa is well curated, and within this collection, there is only one specimen labeled as the holotype ( Fig. 3I ). Therefore, the designation of the holotype follows the recommendations outlined in Articles 72.4.1.1 and 73.1.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Figures

Fig. 4. Poecilimorpha cribricollis, holotype, ♂ (RMCA). A. Dorsal view. B. Ventral view. C. Frontal view. D. Pronotum. E. Lateral view. F. Maxillary and labial palps. G. Type labels.

Fig. 3. Poecilomorpha minuta, holotype, ♂ (RMCA). A. Dorsal view. B. Ventral view. C. Lateral view. D. Tegmen. E. Middle lobe. F. Pronotum. G. Frontal view. H. Middle lobe apex. I. Type labels.