Trichodes tugelanus Gorham
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 (...
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Summary: | 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."]} |
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