Tillicera obscura Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010

Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), Zootaxa 2359 (1), pp. 1-34 : 25-26

Tillicera obscura Gerstmeier & Bernhard n. sp.

( Figs. 13 , 36 )

Specimens examined: Holotype: ♀. Malaysia-W, Pahang, 30 km E of Ipoh , 1500 m, Cameron Highlands, Tanah Rata, 20.2.- 3.3.1998, P. Chechovsky leg., coll. R. Gerstmeier, Munich ( RGCM).

Paratype: ♀. Malaysia-W, Perak, 25 km E of Ipoh, 2100 m, Banjaran Titi Wangsa mts., Korbu mt. , 4.- 13.3.1998, P. Chechovsky leg. ( RGCM) .

Length: 12–13mm (2 specimens).

Collecting period: March.

Head: Black, 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 only slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.

Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A4 or A5 slightly paler, vested with depressed pale and dark setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, A10 as long as wide.

Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, anterior to transverse depression darker; surface finely and diffusely punctate; predominatly vested with anteriorly directed erect, dark and pale, setae; length:width ratio 1.14:1 (broadest in middle).

Scutellum: Brown, with dark margin, finely punctate, scarcely vested with setae.

Elytra: Black, basal third with a brown macula, beginning just behind base and reaching posteriorly towards the anterior, brown pigmented, curved, transverse fascia, just behind scutellum with a small macula of pattern-forming pale setae, and a posterior, brown pigmented transverse fascia; basal third regularly and deeply punctate in rows, rows 3 to 10 reaching the black part in the middle, then becoming obsolete, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex densely, finely and irregularly punctate, emarginated; basal third with erect pale and dark setae, middle part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, dark setae, apex with predominantly longer, pale setae, the transverse fascia with dense, depressed, pale setae; length:width ratio 2.21:1.

Legs: Brown, femora at least at base slightly paler, with dense erect setae on tibiae and depressed, pale setae on femora; hindtibiae with carinae.

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

Distribution: Malaysia.

Etymology: The trivial name obscura is a Latin adjective, we refer to the comparatively dark colour of the beetle.

Figures

FIGURE 36: Distribution of Tillicera obscura 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..