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 nitida
Schenkling, 1908
(Figs. 29, 82–83)
Strotocera nitida
Schenkling, 1908: 361
.
Specimens examined:
Holotype
:
3. Mundamo, [Kam.] R. Rohde, Coll. Kraatz, Schenkling det.,
Holotypus
,
DEI
Eberswalde, coll.
DEI
, Müncheberg,
Strotocera nitida, Schklg.
(
DEI
).
Length:
11mm
(
1 specimen
).
Head:
Black, finely and diffusely punctate.
Antennae:
Dark brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A6–A10 serrate.
Pronotum:
Black; anterior half subparallel, constricted towards base, with four elevations on disc; finely and diffusely punctate; length:width ratio 1.48:1.
Scutellum:
Dark brown.
Elytra:
Black; each elytron with a yellow lateral spot in the basal third, remainder brown with a yellow transverse fascia beyond middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; diameter of punctures larger or as large as interstices, punctures within fasciae small, punctures elongate behind fasciae; with white to yellowish hairs; length:width ratio 2.16:1.
Legs:
Black-brown.
Lower surface:
Head and thorax dark brown to black-brown, abdomen reddish-brown to brown, abdominal metacoxal process light brown.
Vestiture:
With whitish to yellowish hairs.
Distribution:
Cameroon
.