Tillicera pseudocleroides Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010

Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), Zootaxa 2359 (1), pp. 1-34 : 27-29

Tillicera pseudocleroides Gerstmeier & Bernhard n. sp.

( Figs. 15 , 39–40 )

Specimens examined: Holotype: 19m. or Tana Rata, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia, 4.1987, Wong Tet Fatt leg., ( RGCM).

Paratypes: same data as Holotype (8 ex., RGCM) ; J.B. Corporaal, Sumatra`s O.K., Medan 5.12.1918, 20 M. (1 ex., HNHM) , same label data: 20.9.19 (2 ex., MNHN) , 6.1.21 (1 ex., MNHN) , 4.10.17 (1 ex., ZMAN) ,

19.10.17 (1 ex., ZMAN), 30.10.17 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 9.11.17 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 8.12.17 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 28.1.1918 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 20.9.1919 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 21.2.1920 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 25.2.1920 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 26.2.1920 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 20.8.1920 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 10.1.21 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 11.1.21 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 1.2.21 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 16.4.1921 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 9.8.1921 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Museum Paris, Java, Soekaboemi , E.L. Moult. 1925 (1 ex., MNHN) ; J.B. Corporaal, Sumatra`s O.K., Pagar Marbau 26.12.17, 24 M. (1 ex., ZMAN) , same label data: 20.4.19 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 4.4.20 (1 ex., ZMAN) , 9.4.20 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; J.B. Corporaal, Sumatra`s O.K., Lau Rakit 2.1918, 300 M. (2 ex., ZMAN) ; J.B. Corporaal, Sumatra`s O.K., Balimbingan 15.4.20, 370 M. (1 ex., ZMAN) ; J.B. Corporaal, Medan, 25.2.1920 (1 ex., ZMAN) ; Java, Collection Le Moult , 1923 (1 ex., ZMAN) .

Length: 6.5–9mm (39 specimens).

Collecting period: August – February, April.

Head: Black, glossy, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus brown to black; distributed with fine and diffuse punctation; cranium vested with erect pale setae; head including eyes slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.

Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A4 paler, vested with predominantly brown, depressed setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, A10 broader than long.

Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, anterior to transverse depression dark brown to black, apex with a narrow brown to red-brown stripe; surface finely and diffusely punctate; anterior to transverse depression vested with predominantly anteriorly directed, erect, pale and dark setae, apex with dense pale setae, posterior third also with longer, posteriorly directed dark setae; length:width ratio 1.14:1 (broadest at middle).

Scutellum: Brown, finely punctate, vested with few pale setae.

Elytra: Basal part red-brown to brown, remainder black, anterior to middle with a yellowish pigmented transverse fascia, which is vested with pale setae, posterior third with a transverse fascia of pattern-forming dense, pale setae, sometimes reduced to a circular macula; basal half regularly and deeply punctate in rows, with small tubercles, rows 1 and 3 to 6 reduced to fine ridges within the black part, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, interstices with tubercles, apex finely and diffusely punctate; basal part with erect dark and pale setae, the black part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, isolated, erect, dark setae, apex with predominantly longer, pale setae; length:width ratio 2.18:1.

Legs: Dark brown to black, femora at least basally paler, sometimes also tibiae with a pale stripe, with dense, erect, pale setae; tibiae without carinae.

Ventral surface: Abdomen dark brown to black, thorax brown, with few, pale setae.

Aedeagus: Distinct asymmetrical, with tooth-like structures.

Distribution: Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java).

Etymology: We refer to the similarity of this species with T. cleroides .

Figures

FIGURE 39: Tillicera pseudocleroides n. sp., aedeagus ventral aspect, aedeagus lateral aspect, pygidium and ventrite VI.

FIGURE 40: Distribution of Tillicera pseudocleroides n. sp..

FIGURES 13–17: Dorsal habitus of Tillicera spp.. Fig. 13. Tillicera obscura n. sp.. Fig. 14. Tillicera paula. Fig. 15. Tillicera pseudocleroides n. sp.. Fig. 16. Tillicera soror. Fig. 17. Tillicera tonkinensis n. sp..