Tillicera auratofasciata ( Pic, 1927 )

Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), Zootaxa 2359 (1), pp. 1-34 : 5-9

Tillicera auratofasciata ( Pic, 1927)

( Figs. 1 , 19–20 )

Pseudoclerops auratofasciata Pic 1927: 8 ; Pic 1934: 133; Pic 1935: 107.

Specimens examined: Holotype: Type, Pseudoclerops auratofasciatus n. sp., Tillicera auratofasciata , Tonkin, Chapa, 27.VI.1918, Jeanvoine, Museum Paris, Coll. M. Pic (MNHN).

Paratype: Pseudoclerops auratofasciatus Pic, 1927 , ZMAN type COLE.1801.1, Cotype: Pseudoclerops auratofasciatus 1927 , M. Pic, Tonkin, Chapa, 1932, ex coll. M. Pic (ZMAN).

Others: Laos, Phongsaly Prov., Phongsaly env., Phu Fa , h: 1450–1600m, 27.7.2006, leg. M. Geiser, Bergregenwald (2 ex., MGCB) ; Thailand, Chiangmai, Doi Pui , 14.5.85 (1 ex., RGCM) ; Thailand, Chiangmai, Doi Pui , 26.5.1985 (2 ex., RGCM) ; Doi Pui , 1400–1500m Chiang Mai, N . Thailand, 19-VI-1983, T. Shimomura leg. (1 ex., RGCM) ; Thailand, Soppong Pai 1.- 8.5.1993, Pacholatko & Dembicky leg. (1 ex., RGCM) ; N. Thailand, Meo Village , near Chiang Mai, 5.1988 (1 ex., RGCM) ; Mt. Tam Dao , Vinh Phu, N . Vietnam, 5.1998 (1 ex., RGCM) ; Tam Dao, N. Vietnam, 8.1999 (1 ex., RGCM) ; 2.– 8.5.1994, Tam Dao, (N. Vietnam), Local-coll (1 ex., RGCM) ; Xia-Cha-Yu, 1900–2600m, Cha Yu County, Tibet , China, 1.– 28.7.2004, Li Jingke (1 ex., RGCM; 1 ex., JSBC) ; Carin Cheba , 900–1100m, L. Fea V.XII-88 (2 ex., MCSN) ; Chapa , Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN) ; Tam Dao, Tonkin, H. Perrot , Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN) ; Hoa-Binh, Tonkin 1912, Tonkin, V. Laboissiere , 1913 (1 ex., MNHN) ; Carin Cheba , 900–1100m, L. Fea V.XII-88, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN) ; Carin Cheba , 900–1100m, L. Fea V.XII-88, Coll. Gorham Oliver, 1914 (1 ex., MNHN) ; H te Birmanie, Mines des Rubis , 1200m – 1300m, Doherty 1890, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (2 ex., MNHN) ; Laos, Phongsaly prov., 21°41-2’N, 102°06-8’E, Phongsaly env., 28.5.– 20.6.2003, ~ 1500m, M.Brancucci leg. (5 ex., NHMB) ; N E. Burma, Kambaiti , 4.– 8.6.1934, R. Malaise (1 ex., NHRS) ; Tonkin, Chapa , 7.1916, R. Vitalis de Salvaza leg., vend. 1929 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Laos, Ban Pan , 2.5.1918, R. Vitalis de Salvaza leg., vend. 1929 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Laos, Vien Pou Kha , 9.5.1918, R. Vitalis de Salvaza leg., vend. 1929 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Laos, Xieng Khouang, 13.V.1919 , Laos, X. Khouang, le 13-V 1919, R. Vitalis de Salvaza, Homotype, Tillicera auratofasciata Pic, Ekis 1974 (1 ex., ZMAN) .

Length: 9–16mm (34 specimens).

Collecting period: May – August, December.

Head: Black or brown; anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus black to brown (or paler); distributed with dense, fine punctation; cranium vested with golden and dark pubescence; head including eyes only slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.

Antennae: A1 to A4 light brown with erect yellow setae, from A5 onwards dark brown to black, vested with depressed and erect black setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, A10 broader than long or breadth and width subequal.

Pronotum: Unicoloured red-brown to brown, surface anterior to transverse depression sometimes black or with a semicircular black spot anterior to middle; surface punctation anterior to transverse depression fine, densely and irregularly distributed, surface behind transverse depression more coarsely punctate; vested with anteriorly directed erect black and golden setae; length:width ratio 1.14:1 (broadest in middle).

Scutellum: Brown, finely punctate, vested with a few golden-yellow setae.

Elytra: Black, basal third red-brown to brown (side margins bordered black, in two specimens this redbrown part is reduced to a macula on each elytron), margined posteriorly by two yellowish pigmented transverse maculae (spanning from the lateral margin to mid-way towards suture) with dense, golden-yellow, depressed setae, between these maculae with a semicircular sickle-like pattern of pale setae (sometimes with a pale pigmented spot in the middle), apical third with a pale pigmented transverse fascia (not always pigmented towards suture), with dense, golden-yellow, depressed setae; disc regularly and deeply punctate in rows, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, interstices partly with tubercles; the black middle part without the first two or three rows of punctation, apex densely and very finely punctate; basal third with erect golden and dark setae, the black part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, predominantly dark and isolated yellow (mainly at apex) setae; length:width ratio 2.21:1.

Legs: Brown to black, often paler at base; with more or less dense, golden-yellow, erect setae; tibiae with longitudinal carinae.

Ventral surface: Abdomen black to brown, pro- and mesothorax brown, metathorax black or brown with golden-yellow, depressed pubescence.

Aedeagus: Conspicuously asymmetrical, with tooth-like structures.

Distribution: China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURE 19: Tillicera auratofasciata, aedeagus ventral aspect, aedeagus lateral aspect, pygidium and ventrite VI.

FIGURE 20: Distribution of Tillicera auratofasciata.

FIGURES 1–6: Dorsal habitus of Tillicera spp.. Fig. 1. Tillicera auratofasciata. Fig. 2. Tillicera aurivillosa. Fig. 3. Tillicera bibalteata. Fig. 4. Tillicera callosa n. sp.. Fig. 5. Tillicera cleroides. Fig. 6. Tillicera cleroides ab. bicoloricollis.