Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae)
Author
Gerstmeier, Roland
Author
Weiss, Ingmar
text
Zootaxa
2009
2242
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190604
be775551-d947-4866-b75d-2d19ae859460
1175-5326
190604
Strotocera minuscula
Gerstmeier & Weiss
,
n. sp.
(Figs. 28, 80–81)
Specimens examined:
Holotype
:
3. Coll. Mus Tervuren,
Cameroun
: NKolbisson,
23. IV.1968
, NKolbisson,
23-IV-68
(
MRAC
).
Paratpyes:
Yaoundé, St. de NKolbisson,
23-I-67
, Muséum Paris,
Cameroun
, B. de Miré, Museum Paris, de Miré (Ƥ,
MNHN
); NKolbisson,
14.IX.67
, Museum Paris, de Miré leg. (Ƥ,
MNHN
).
Length:
6.6mm
–
9.4mm
(
3 specimens
).
Head:
Black, wrinkled with some scatterd punctures.
Antennae:
Light brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A5–A10 serrate.
Pronotum:
Black, narrowly dark red at apex; anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; disc finely and diffusely punctate and wrinkled, with very slight elevations behind transverse depression; length:width ratio 1.37:1.
Scutellum:
Red-brown to black.
Elytra:
Basal half black, each elytron with a whitish lateral spot in the basal third (scarsely visible in one specimen) and a whitish to yellowish transverse fascia (reduced to a transverse spot in one specimen) in the middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; light brown behind fasciae; diameter of punctures smaller than interstices, impunctate towards apex; length:width ratio 2.53:1.
Legs:
Brown to black, tarsi light brown.
Lower surface:
Head and thorax dark brown to black, abdomen light brown.
Vestiture:
With whitish to yellowish hairs.
Distribution:
Cameroon
.
Etymology:
This is one of the smallest species of
Strotocera
; "
minuscula
" means quite small.