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 werneri
Gerstmeier & Weiss
,
n. sp.
(Figs. 36, 96–97)
Specimens examined:
Holotype
:
3.
St. Lucia
,
Natal
12/86, Werner leg. (CRG).
Paratype
:
S-Afrika,
Natal
,
St. Lucia
Creek, 12/1986 leg. Werner (1 3., CRG).
Length:
9.2mm
–
10.7mm
(
2 specimens
).
Head:
Red-brown; finely and diffusely punctate.
Antennae:
Red-brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A5–A10 serrate.
FIGURE 96
:
S. werneri
, aedeagus, terminal sternite and
FIGURE 97
:
S. werneri
, distribution map. tergite.
Pronotum:
Red-brown with some darker spots; anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; very finely and diffusely punctate; length:width ratio 1.37:1.
Scutellum:
Dark red-brown.
Elytra:
Red-brown, each elytron with a faint white lateral spot in the basal third and a faint white transverse fascia reaching neither lateral margins nor suture; diameter of punctures larger than interstices, impunctate towards apex; length:width ratio 2.47:1.
Legs:
Red-brown to dark red-brown.
Lower surface:
Red-brown.
Vestiture:
With whitish to yellowish hairs.
Distribution:
South Africa
.
Etymology:
A posthumous dedication to the senior author's friend Karl Werner (
1958–2007
), one of the best collectors of African
Cleridae
.