Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Kirejtshuk, A. G.: Notes on the systematics of the African Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)

Variability - Length 3.4-4.2 mm. Slight variability is observed in coloration and punctation. Some paratypes have more or less unicolotired dark brown body and almost yellowish tibiae and antennái flagelli. Punctures on dorsum tend to be more or less uniform. Diagnosis - This new species is most similar to U. (A.) picinus (BOHEMAN, 1851), but clearly differs from it in unicoloured, more slender and less convex body, denser punctation, longer and thinner antennái flagelli, median depression at the middle of posterior edge of ventrite 4, a few groups of heavily sclerotized tubercles in the bottom of median depression and subacute projecting lateral corners of ventrite 5 as well as in the structure of aedeagus. Etymology - The name of this species is formed from the Latin "grossus" (large, coarse) and "punctum" (point, puncture). Subfamily Meligethinae Genus Pria STEPHENS, 1830 Pria adusta COOPER, 1982 Pria unicolor COOPER, 1982, syn. n. Specimens examined - Cameroon: 1 ? paratype of P. adusta, male (NHL) - "Mt. Cameroon: Musake, 6350 ft, 14.1.1932, M. Steele", "on blossom"; 3 male and females (ZISP, ZMB) - "Kamerun, Musake, 6.X. 10, E. Hintz"; 1 paratype of P. adusta, male (NHL) - "Mt. Cameroon: Onyanga, 8100 ft, 22.1.1932, M. Steele"; 1 paratype of P. unicolor, male (NHL) - "Mt. Cameroon, M. Steele, Tree fern belt"; 1 paratype of P. unicolor, female (NHL) - "Mt. Cameroon: Mann's Quelle, 7 400 ft, 2.II.1932, M. Steele", "on blossom"; ? Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire): 1 female (MRAC) - "Bingerville, XI1963, J. Decelle". Notes - Three or four paratypes of P. adusta and P. unicolor examined by the author correspond to the original description and are certainly conspecific, although one paratype of P. adusta (Onyanga) look rather like P. mixta GROUVELLE, 1908 or P. pauli GROUVELLE, 1908, formerly recorded from Tanzania and Ethiopia. The series from Musake is missing in the original description of P. adusta, but the studied specimen from NHL was provided with a paratype label(!) by COOPER. The most expressive difference between studied specimens from Cameroon shows in length of gonocoxites of a female from Musake and paratype of P. unicolor, which seems to be intraspecific variability rather than interspecific. In contrast to the original description the type specimens are covered with golden yellowish pubescence rather than silvery or yellow. The male from Musake has significantly wider antennái club than that in the type specimens of P. adusta and P. unicolor, and the excision between lateral lobes of tegmen of these specimens has an inter-