Cyrtotyche satanas Pascoe 1866

A large blackish-brownish species with purplish hue, antennae, palps and tarsi black. Elytra densely covered with large black tubercles; in the middle of the pronotum a transverse row of elongate truncated obtuse shiny tubercles above and on each side behind the outermost one is a pointed tubercle.

Original description in:
Pascoe, F. P. 1866. Notices of new or little-known Genera and Species of Coleoptera. Reprinted from The Journal of Entomology.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/66433#page/207/mode/1up
Dark purplish brown, shining; head minutely punctated; prothorax rather broader than the elytra, very convex and arched above, and much contracted at the base, four glossy oblong tubercles in a transverse line in the centre, with two on each side behind, the uppermost very large and prominent, the lowermost bifid, the intervals rather dull, irregular and impunctate; scutellum very small, triangular; elytra impunctate, short and globose-, scarcely as broad as the prothorax at the base, irregularly covered with large conical tubercles, the intervals pitted here and there, especially near the suture; body beneath black, shining; legs dark purple, shining; tarsi black.

Type locality: Natal

Key to Cyrtotyche species in:
Kulzer, H. 1950. 3. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tenebrioniden. Entom. Arbeiten aus dem Museum Gg. Frey, Bd. 1.
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Arbeiten-Museum-Frey_1_0009-0046.pdf

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199662510

Posted on February 18, 2024 02:16 PM by traianbertau