Trichodes tugelanus Gorham

• Main Authors: Gerstmeier, Roland, Huesmann, Andrea
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cleridae; Trichodes; Trichodes tugelanus; Gorham; Indian; Roland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269355; https://zenodo.org/record/6269355

Trichodes tugelanus Gorham (Plate 3; Figs. 37–41) Trichodes tugelanus Gorham, 1900: 72. Type material Holotype. ɗ Tugela R., Weenen, Natal X. 96 (MNHN) Paratype. ɗ “ Syntypus ”; Weenen, Natal; Gorham; Coll. S. Schenkling (DEI) Specimens examined 1 specimen, Port; Natal; specimen Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 1 specimen, Natal; Weenen; XI. 1923; H.P. Thomasset (SANC); Verulam; Natal; Spiller; specimen Coll; R. Oberthur (MNHN) Description Length: 10–12 mm (5 specimens) Head including eyes more or less as broad as apex of pronotum; black­blue; finely punctate; with short, pale and longer, dark (brown) hairs; antennae red, club dark. Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.22); coarsely punctate; lateral margin subparallel to circular, constricted towards base; black­blue; with sparse brown pubescence. Elytral ground color yellow­brown to orange or red, reduced to three fasciae, or elytral ground color predominant, with the black­blue fasciae reduced to an anterior spot in the middle, a heart­shaped spot and a broad apical spot behind the middle. Elytra almost three times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.93); anterior to middle regularly punctate in rows, behind middle irregularly punctate; diameter of punctures larger than intervals, within orange spots (ground color) smaller than intervals; some intervals protruding, similar to a ridge; sutural angle acute. AFRICA AralSea North Atlantic BlackSea Caspian Sea MediterraneanSea Red Sea LakeChad LakeTurkana Lake Albert Lake Victoria Indian Ocean LakeTanganyika LakeNyasa South Lake Atlantic Kariba 0 1000 Km 1000 Mi . 0 ProducedbytheCartographicResearchLab UniversityofAlabama bution. Legs dark blue, tarsi lighter (brownish); hind tibiae very slender and almost straight; with long, white pubescence. Ventral surface green­blue; with long, white hairs. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 37–40. Distribution See fig. 41. Collecting period November. : Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Huesmann, Andrea, 2004, Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Trichodes HERBST, 1792 (Coleoptera, Cleridae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 694 on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158590 : {"references": ["Gorham, H. S. (1900) Descriptions of new genera and species from South and West Africa, of the section Serricornia, and of the families Erotylidae, Endomychidae, and Languriidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 (7 th series), 71 - 94."]}