Chaetodera perrieri ( Fairmaire 1897 )

Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2011, Taxonomy, identification, and phylogeny of the African and Madagascan species of the tiger beetle genus Chaetodera Jeannel 1946 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), Insecta Mundi 2011 (191), pp. 1-13 : 4

Chaetodera perrieri ( Fairmaire 1897)

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Cicindela perrieri Fairmaire (1897: 364)

Type material. Syntype male of C. perrieri , labeled “Fairmaire/ Madagascar ” ( DEIC, examined); Syntype female of C. perrieri labeled “ Cicindela /perrieri/Madag.” and “Fairmaire/Perrier” ( DEIC, examined).

Diagnosis. Length 10.0-13.0 mm. Dorsal coloration as shown in Figures 3, 4 . This species is distinguished by its obliquely banded ivory-white and black elytral coloration. The other Madagascan species of Chaetodera with strongly oblique elytral markings is C. maheva , which has blue or violet tibiae and is much larger (15.0-18.5 mm in length vs. 10.0-13.0 mm) than C. perrieri .

Material examined. MADAGSCAR: Ambobaka , V (2 males, 1 female, DEIC) ; Analalava (1 male, DEIC) ; Ile de Berafia (1 female, CMNH) ; Majunga (1 male, 1 female, DEIC) ; Mt. d’Ambre , I.1929 (1 male, DEIC) ; Suberb Ile (1 male, DEIC) .

Figures

Figures 1-15. Dorsal habitus images of Afrotropical Chaetodera species. 1) C. antatsima, syntype male, Madagascar Sud, Bassin du Mandraré. 2) C. antatsima, syntype female of C. antatsima var. fotsy, Mananpatra, Madagascar. 3) C. perrieri, male, Analaleva, Madagascar. 4) C. perrieri, syntype male, Madagascar. 5) C. andriana, syntype female, Madagascar (Sud), Bassin du Mandraré. 6) C. andriana, female, Ambositra, Madagascar. 7) C. maheva, syntype male, without locality label. 8) C. maheva, female, Majunga, Madagascar. 9) C. maheva, female, Maevatanana, Madagascar. 10) C. blanchardi, syntype male, Ouarsanguelis, Somalia. 11) C. regalis, male, Senegal. 12) C. regalis, female, Tana-Galla, Kenya. 13) C. regalis, paratype male of C. regalis bremeri Mandl, El Geneina, Darfur, Sudan. 14-15) Adult males of C. regalis photographed on sandbars of the Sabie River, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Figures 16-17. Distribution of Chaetodera species in Africa and Madagascar. 16) Distribution of C. antatsima (dark circles), C. perrieri (dark triangles), and C. blanchardi (dark squares). 17) Distribution of C. andriana (open circles), C. maheva (open stars), and C. regalis (dark stars).