Pseudoastigmus Eberle

Roland, Gerstmeier & Jonas, Eberle, 2011, Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), ZooKeys 92, pp. 35-60 : 45-46

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.92.1157

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scientific name

Pseudoastigmus Eberle
status

gen. n.

Pseudoastigmus Eberle   ZBK gen. n. Figs 1936455667

Type species:

Astigmus pygidialis Pic, 1933, comb. n. Pic 1933: 257.

Distribution:

Aethiopian region (Ruwenzori).

Material examined:

Astigmus pygidialis (Syntype), Musée du Congo, Ruwenzori (4200m), VII-1932, L. Burgeon; type; Stigmatium (Astigmus) pygidiale n sp [handwritten by Pic], and four additional syntypes (MRAC).

Description

Head:

Eyes strongly protruding, conspicuously emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space about two eye widths; gular sutures subparallel to slightly diverging, gular process of medium width; antennae long, A2 shorter than A3, from A4 onwards slightly dilated distally, A11 sub-ovate, apical half pinched, without club.

Thorax:

Proepimeron very short, not acute; anterior mesosternal process present; metendosternite with very short furcal stalk length, furcal arms acute distally, stalk base conspicuously emarginate (Fig. 19). Elytra short, compact, dilated apically (broadest behind middle), apices broadly rounded, elytral punctation arranged into more or less regular ten striae; wingless.

Legs:

Long, stout; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-3, tibial spur formula 1-2-2; tibiae without longitudinal carinae; claws with basal denticle.

Abdomen:

Apical margin of male ventrite 6 deeply emarginate (Fig. 56); tegmen relatively broad, tapering to a curved acumination distally, phallobasic struts not fused, phallic struts and phallobasic apodeme not dilated distally (Fig. 45).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae