Trichodes martini Fairmaire

Gerstmeier, Roland & Huesmann, Andrea, 2004, Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Trichodes HERBST, 1792 (Coleoptera, Cleridae), Zootaxa 694, pp. 1-22 : 14-16

Trichodes martini Fairmaire (Plate 2; Figs. 21–26)

Trichodes martini Fairmaire, 1896: 223 .

Type material

Holotype. ɗ Lahadj; Dr. Martin ( MNHN)

Paratypes. ɗ " Syntypus "; La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. A. Argod, 1931 ( MNHN); Ψ " Syntypus "; La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. L. Bedel 1922 ( MNHN); Ψ(?): "Cotypus"; Lahaadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. M. Pic ( MNHN).

Specimens examined

3 specimens, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; specimen Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 2 specimens, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. L. Bedel 1922 (MNHN); 2 specimens, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; ex Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Yemen merid; Lahadj; Champenois 1905 (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; specimen Coll. M. Maindron; Coll. G. Babault 1930 (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. D. A. Chobaut; 1942 (MNHN); 1 specimen, H. Donkier; 1910 (MNHN); 1 specimen, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. L 40D Fairmaire; 1906 (MNHN); 1 specimen, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. A. Argod; 1931 (MNHN); Jemen 1970; Wadi Zabid; leg. A. Szalay­Marzso (CRG)

Description

Length: 8–16 mm (16 specimens)

Head including eyes broader, equal or smaller than apex of pronotum; black­blue; very densely and finely punctate; with dense, dark pubescence; antennae red, club sometimes entirely red or with only terminal segment dark.

Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.13); lateral margin sometimes strongly sinuate, constricted towards base; very densely punctate; black­blue; with long, dark pubescence, directed apically.

Elytral ground color orange­brown, with two black­blue fasciae and one apical spot; the fascia in the middle not reaching the suture, the fascia behind the middle is broader, mostly reaching the suture (but dilated); the apical spot is sometimes reduced to a very narrow fascia anterior to apspecimen

Elytra more than two times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.33); punctation more or less irregular, not very deep; diameter of punctures slightly larrger than intervals; apex more or less acute; with short, pale pubescence, and isolated dark hairs.

Legs black­blue to bluish­green; tarsi lighter; tibiae slightly curved; with white pubescence.

Ventral surface black­blue or bluish­green; with white pubescence. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 21–25.

Distribution

See fig. 26.

Collecting period

No details available.

Red

Sea

LakeChad

LakeTurkana

Lake

Albert

Lake

Victoria

Indian

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LakeTanganyika

LakeNyasa

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Atlantic

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Pygidium. Scale 1 mm. FIGURE 26. Distribution.

PLATE 3. FIGURE 13 . Trichodes penicillatus . FIGURE 14 . Trichodes penicillatus ab. FIGURE 15 . Trichodes pseudaulicus Holotype. FIGURE 16 . Trichodes tugelanus Holotype. FIGURE 17 . Trichodes tugelanus Paratype. FIGURE 18 . Trichodes tugelanus ab.

Figures

FIGURES 11 – 15. Trichodes gemma. FIGURE 11. Aedeagus ventrally. FIGURE 12. Aedeagus laterally. FIGURE 13. Male sternum VIII. FIGURE 14. Pygidium. Scale 1 mm. FIGURE 15. Distribu­

FIGURES 16 – 20. Trichodes lepidus. FIGURE 16. Aedeagus ventrally. FIGURE 17. Aedeagus laterally. FIGURE 18. Male sternum VIII. FIGURE 19. Pygidium. Scale 1 mm. FIGURE 20. Distribution.