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 arabicus Gerstmeier & Weiss , n. sp. ( Figs. 3 , 37 –38) Specimens examined: Holotype : 3. Arabia: Taif., 11.ix.1934 ., H.St.J.B. Philby., B.M. 1934-536, Specimens ref. in Menier, 1986 , Fauna of Saudi Arabia , Vol. 8 ( BMNH ). Paratypes : Arabia: Taif., 9.ix.1934 ., H.St.J.B. Philby., B.M. 1934-536, Diplocladus sp., J.J. Menier det., Specimens ref. in Menier, 1986 , Fauna of Saudi Arabia , Vol. 8 (1 ƤƤ , BMNH ); Namas IV.1980 , 2380 m, S a u d i A r a b i a, G. Vo g e l, (1 Ƥ, MNHN ). Length: 12mm – 14.9mm ( 3 specimens ). Head: Red-brown; more or less densely punctate. Antennae: Red-brown; almost reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside. Pronotum: Light red-brown; anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; disc conspicuously wrinkled; length:width ratio 1.54:1. Scutellum: Red-brown. Elytra: Basal third to half red-brown, each elytron with a very faint whitish lateral spot in the basal third, remainder black with white transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; diameter of punctures larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, behind fasciae impunctate; length:width ratio 2.53:1. Legs: Red-brown. Lower surface: Head and thorax light brown to red-brown, abdomen dark brown. Vestiture: With whitish, to reddish (on elytra), hairs. Distribution: Saudi Arabia . Etymology: Named after the region of its occurrence.