Tillicera assamensis ( Stebbing, 1907 ) -, 2010

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

Tillicera assamensis ( Stebbing, 1907) - incertae sedis

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Thanasimus assamensis Stebbing 1907: 30 , plate 5, fig. 7; Stebbing 1914: 187, 486, fig. 319.

No type material or other specimens were available, the description is based on the original literature ( Stebbing 1907).

Length: 6.5mm

Head: Black, glossy; frons with dense, long, white hairs; vertex with a few scattered black bristles.

Antennae: Yellow, clubbed.

Pronotum: Red, glossy; with stiff, scattered, black bristles, a “bunch” of white bristles projecting from the lateral margin just above the base.

Elytra: Black, with two reddish-yellow transverse fasciae vested with dense white pubescence, white posterior transverse fascia narrower; apex black, with few white hairs.

Ventral surface: Black; thorax clothed with long thick white hairs.

Legs: Black, basal part of femora yellow, with long yellow and white hairs.

Distribution: India.