Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, 1895

Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), Zootaxa 2359 (1), pp. 1-34 : 9-12

Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, 1895

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Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham 1895: 295 ; Corporaal 1939: 26.

Specimens examined: Holotype: ♂. Type, Gorham, Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, Kanara , Museum Paris, Coll. Gorham, Olivier, 1914 ( MNHN).

Others: India, Mysore , Coorg, Mercara, 5.73 1200m, leg. Th.R.S. Nathan (1 ex., RGCM) ; Maissour , Manganali, 1897 (1 ex., RGCM) ; Bombay, Fontanier 301-39 (1 ex., MNHN) ; India, Bombay, Ex coll. Janson, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN) ; India, Ex Museo James Thomson , ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN) ; Inde Occidentale , Règion de Coorg, Chasseurs Indigènes, 2 e semestre 1905, Ex Coll. M. Maindros, Coll. G. Babault 1930 (1 ex., MNHN) ; Wallardi (Travancore), Ex Coll. M. Maindros, Coll. G. Babault 1930 (1 ex., MNHN) ; Nilgiri Hills , don. H.E. Andrewes (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Anamalai hills, 2400, Madras, J.C.M. Gardner, 10.5.1930 (1 ex., ZMAN) .

Length: 11–15mm (10 specimens).

Collecting period: May.

Head: Red-brown to brown, clypeus, labrum and palpi brown; distributed with fine, dense punctation; cranium vested with short, erect, predominantly golden pubescence; head including eyes only slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.

Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A5 paler, vested with depressed golden setae; triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, antennomeres generally narrower than in all other Tillicera species ; A10 as long as wide in females, longer than broad in males; A11 conspicuously extended.

Pronotum: Red-brown to brown; surface finely and irregularly punctate; with anteriorly directed erect dark and short golden setae; length:width ratio 1.07:1 (broadest in middle).

Scutellum: Brown to black, finely punctate, partially vested with very dense golden setae.

Elytra: Black, humeral and apical regions predominantly with long, erect, golden setae, posterior black region with loose depressed dark posteriorly directed setae; with two broad, pale pigmented transverse fasciae with dense, depressed, golden setae, the posterior fascia almost reaching the sutural angle; a pale pigmented macula is dilated around the scutellum; disc deeply punctate in regular rows from base towards posterior fascia, diameter of punctures broader than interstices; apex densely and finely punctate, sutural angle slightly emarginated; length:width ratio 2.11:1.

Legs: Brown, with erect golden setae; tibiae without carinae.

Ventral surface: Abdomen dark brown to black, pro-and mesothorax brown, metathorax dark brown to black with dense, depressed golden setae; penultimate abdominal sternite conspicuously emarginated in males.

Aedeagus: With tooth-like structures; parameres at lateral view strongly broadened.

Distribution: India.

Figures

FIGURE 21: Tillicera aurivillosa, aedeagus ventral aspect, aedeagus lateral aspect, pygidium and ventrite VI.

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.