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
Diplocladus pulcher
(
Schenkling, 1906
)
(Figs. 11, 50–51)
Diplophorus pulcher
Schenkling, 1906
: 109
(
Diplophorus
)
.
Specimens examined: |
Holotype:
3. Schenkling
|
det., |
Holotypus, |
DEI, |
Eberswalde, |
coll. |
DEI, |
Müncheberg, |
Diplophorus |
pulcher
,
|
Schkl. (DEI). |
Length:
15.7mm
(
1 specimen
).
Head:
Dark reddish brown to black; finely and diffusely punctate, and wrinkled.
Antennae:
Light reddish brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A3 curved triangular.
Pronotum:
Dark reddish brown to black; conspicuously dilated anteriorly, conspicuously constricted towards base, coarsely wrinkled; anterior margin bent upwards in middle; length:width ratio 1.55:1.
Scutellum:
Brown.
Elytra:
Dark brown; each elytron with a yellow transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; diameter of punctures of the first three rows smaller or more or less larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, punctures faint and partly elongate behind fascia; length:width ratio 2.08:1.
Legs:
Dark reddish brown to black-brown.
Lower surface:
Dark brown to black-brown.
Vestiture:
With whitish to reddish hairs.
Distribution:
Chad
.