Review of the generaDiplopherusa and Paracladiscus (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from Japan and Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Murakami, Hiroyuki
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2016
2016-11-15
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5307482
0374-1036
5307482
D9281F86-E19D-4EA5-8173-DAB15ED8703B
Diplopherusa
Heller, 1922
Diplopherusa
Heller, 1922: 530
(original description).
CORPORAAL & VAN DER WIEL (1949)
: 183
(key to species).
Type
species.
Diplopherusa tumidipes
Heller, 1922
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
(for the Japanese and Taiwanese species). This genus is similar to
Paracladiscus
, but is distinguished from it by the following characters: head and pronotum vested with fine punctation; terminal segments of labial palpi widely triangular, their length equal to 1/3 of width of apical margin of terminal palpomeres (
Fig. 19
); postgular processes dilated distally at extremities; anterior plate of metendosternite (
Fig. 20
) wide, slightly extended anteriorly; hind tibiae in male (
Fig. 21
) swollen posteriorly; phallobasic struts (Figs 44, 46, 48, 50) well developed. This genus is also similar to
Cladiscus
,
Gracilotillus
,
Egenocladiscus
, and
Figs 1–5. Habitus of
Diplopherusa
spp
(1–4 – male; 5 – female). 1 –
Diplopherusa yonaguniensis
sp. nov.
, holotype; 2 –
D. ahsini
Yang & Yang, 2013
; 3 –
D. kitamurai
Nakane, 1989
; 4–5 –
D. shibatai
(
Miyatake, 1965
)
. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.
Figs 6–9. Habitus of
Paracladiscus
spp.
(6, 8 – male, holotype; 7, 9 – female). 6–7 –
Paracladiscus choui
sp. nov.
; 8–9 –
P. atricolor
Miyatake, 1965
. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.
Orthocladiscus
, but distinctly differs from these genera in swollen male hind tibiae. A key to these genera was published by
CORPORAAL & VAN DER WIEL (1949)
.