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 bipunctatus
Gerstmeier & Weiss
,
n. sp.
(Figs 4, 39)
Specimens examined:
Holotype
:
Ƥ.
Kenya
, Bura; Taita Region; Werner leg.
I.91
(CRG).
Length:
16mm
(
1 specimen
).
Head:
Black; finely punctate to wrinkled.
Antennae:
Dark reddish brown to black (only a part of the right antenna is present).
Pronotum:
Black; anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; apex narrowly wrinkled medially, anterior margin to transverse depression diffusely punctate, coarsley wrinkled behind transverse depression; disc with two patches of white hairs; length:width ratio 1.4:1.
Scutellum:
Black.
Elytra:
Basal third reddish brown, remainder black with two whitish spots on each elytron behind middle; diameter of punctures larger than interstices, surface behind white spots impunctate; length:width ratio 2.45:1.
Legs:
Black.
Lower surface:
Head and prothorax red-brown to black, meso- and metathorax dark red-brown, abdomen black-brown.
Vestiture:
Head with whitish hairs, pronotal margins vested with white hairs, disc of pronotum and elytra with reddish to black-brown, lower surface with whitish hairs.
Distribution:
Kenya
.
Etymology:
Named after the two white spots on each elytron.