A review of the Tillicera genus group with a revision of Plathanocera Schenkling (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Gerstmeier, Roland
Author
Stapel, Jessica
text
Zootaxa
2016
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3
517
540
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.4
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Plathanocera uniformis
Schenkling, 1902
(
Fig. 11
)
Schenkling 1902: 329.
Plathanocera uniformis
Schenkling, 1902
,
Lectotype
(designated here): Museum Paris,
Cote D'Ivoire
,
Baoulé, H.
Pobéguin, 1897 (
♀
,
MNHN
).
Comment on the
type
specimens:
As Schenkling (1902: 329) made no reference to
type
specimens in his descriptions of
Plathanocera uniformis
, it cannot be assumed that the nominal species-group name,
Plathanocera uniformis
, was based on a single specimen. The 'type' specimen located in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (
MNHN
) must therefore considered a
syntype
(
ICZN
1999: Article 73.2) and available for
lectotype
designation (
ICZN
1999: Article 74.1).
Length:
12 mm
(1 specimen).
Head:
Reddish brown, with fine, diffuse punctation; sparsely covered with short, yellow hairs. Antennal base red brown, from A6 onwards black brown (base of A6 also brown); A11 compact, outer margin broadly rounded, inner margin pointed at tip, tip broadly red-yellow. Gular process very long, narrow.
Thorax:
Pronotum reddish, with fine and diffuse punctation; only in the middle, anterior to the transverse impression, finely wrinkled; behind anterior transverse impression in the middle with very diffuse, fine punctation; length to width index 0.91:1; vested with short, yellow hairs.
Elytra:
Red brown; diameter of punctures at least one third of interstices, only slightly decreasing towards apex, interstices very finely wrinkled, length to width index 1.71:1; densely vested with short, yellow, posteriorly directed hairs; lateral margin vested with isolated, longer setae.
FIGURE 11.
Plathanocera uniformis
. (A) habitus, (B) antenna, (C) metendosternite, (D) distribution, (E) hind wing, (F) gula, (G) anterior mesoventral process.
FIGURE 12.
Tillicera
. (A) habitus, (B) antenna, (C) metendosternite, (D) distribution, (E) hind wing, (F) hind wing
var. without
MP4 (G) gula, (H) anterior mesoventral process.
Legs:
Red brown, densely vested with short, pale, depressed hairs and long erect setae; tibial carinae stout, black.
Abdomen:
Reddish brown, sparsely vested with yellow hairs.
Distribution:
Ivory Coast.