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

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

Absence of developed dimorphism in 3-segmented antennái club, coloration and partly outline of body of P. "concolor" are also similar to those of P. lutea COOPER, 1982 (recorded from Kenya), however the latter is different in less convex dorsum, slightly conspicuous dorsal pubescence, widely explanate pronotal sides, shorter suturai lines. The paratype of P. obscurci from Orange Free State is the male with 3-segmented antennái club, but not female as mentioned by COOPER(1982) and it belongs to the same series as the holotype, which was also indicated by the author of the original description as a female. This paratype should be regarded as conspecific with the studied paralectotype of P. concolor and holotype of P. puncticollis. Therefore the names puncticollis and obscurci are without doubt synonymous, and if the lectotype designated by COOPER (1982) is also conspecific with these holotypes, both names here synonymized should be treated as junior synonyms of concolor. However the male antennái club drawn by COOPER is distinctly loose and 4-segmented. Pria copiosa KIREJTSHUK, 1980 Pria copiosa KIREJTSHUK, 1980 Pria gracilipes COOPER, 1982, syn. n. ? Pria gracilipes funeraria COOPER, 1982 Pria picea COOPER, 1982, syn. n. Specimens examined - Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Tanzania, Rwanda: holotype (MRAC) and 444 paratypes (MRAC, NRS, ZISP, ZMB, ZMO) of P. copiosa; Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Uganda, Rwanda: holotype (MRAC) and 19 paratypes (MRAC) off. gracilipes; Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire): 8 (MRAC, ZISP) - "Kivu, Mt. Kahuz, ~ 3 300 m, 15.V. 1938, Heindrickx"; 1 (MRAC) - "Kivu, Terr. Kalchc, Sommet Kahuzi, ~ 3 300 m, 15.V.1938, Heindrickx"; Ethiopia: 1 (HNHM) - "11 km W of Dinaha Bale mountains", "sweep-netted, 2.XI. 1980, N 359, A. Demeter"; 3 (HNHM, ZISP) - "Mont Gaysay, Bale mountains, sweep-netted, 1.XI. 1980, A. Demeter"; 5 (MRAC, ZISP) - "Kaffa Prov., Mt. Both, 2 950 m, 18.III.1972", "R.O.S. Clarke"; Kenya: 10 (HNHM, ZISP) - "Mt. Elgon Nat. Pk, bamboo (Arundinaria alpina) thicket, 2740 m", "singled & swept from vegetation, 20.1.1992, N 791, O. Merkl & G. Várkonyi"; Tanzania: more than 200 (HNHM) - "Mt. Mcru, W slope Olkokola, 870 feet, J. Szunyoghy", "singled material, 18-22.VII.1965"; 16 (ZISP, ZMB) - "1912. Kilimandscharo, Blamarckhüg, sdl. Mawensi, circa 3 000 m, Chr. Schroder"; 1 (MRAC) - "Terr.: Mt. Mcru, Olkokola, versant N.O., 2 900 m, 27-28.VI.1957, P. Basilewsky ct N. Lclcup", "tête de source, savanne à Hagenia; 2 (MRAC) - "Terr.: Mt. Mcru, Olkokola, versant N.O., 2 500-2 600 m, 3-8.VII. 1957, P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup"; Rwanda: 1 (MRAC) - "Tschuruyaga, for. Rugege, 2400 m, P. Basilewsky, 22/1-1953"; Republic of South Africa: 2 paratypes off. picea (NHL) - "Natal, Mont-aux-Sources, 8 500-10 500 ft, 26.11.1929", "Hugh Scott"; 1 (NHL) - "Cape Province, Swellendam, ii.1932", "R.T. Turner".