Tillicera paula Schenkling, 1908

Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), Zootaxa 2359 (1), pp. 1-34 : 26

Tillicera paula Schenkling, 1908

( Figs. 14 , 37–38 )

Tillicera paula Schenkling 1908: 224 .

Specimens examined: Holotype: ♀. Type, Tillicera, Paula Schklg. , Type! n. sp., H.L. Andrewes, Nilgiri Hills, Andrewes, Bequest., B.M. 1922-221 ( BMNH).

Others: S. India: Nilgiri , Hills: Cherangode, 3500ft 11.1950, P.S. Nathan ( RGCM) .

Length: 6–7mm (2 specimens).

Collecting period: November.

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

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

Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, anterior to transverse depression slightly darker; surface finely and densely punctate; vested with anteriorly directed, erect, dense, golden setae, surface posterior of transverse depression also with long, dark, erect setae; length:width ratio 1.1:1 (broadest at middle).

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

Elytra: Basal third red-brown, posteriorly margined with a yellowish pigmented transverse fascia (which is vested with dense, depressed, golden setae), middle part black, apical third brown, with a transverse fascia of dense, pattern-forming, depressed, golden setae. Basal third regularly and deeply punctate in rows, rows 3 to 5, or 3 to 6, obsolete in the black part, with small tubercles, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex finely and diffusely punctate; basal third with long, erect golden and dark setae, the black middle part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, dark setae, apical third with depressed and erect golden setae, apex only with erect, golden setae; length:width ratio 2.11:1.

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

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

Aedeagus: Asymmetrical, with tooth-like structures.

Distribution: India.

Figures

FIGURE 37: Tillicera paula, aedeagus ventral aspect, aedeagus lateral aspect, pygidium and ventrite VI.

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..