Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal

• Main Authors: Gerstmeier, Roland, Huesmann, Andrea
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cleridae; Trichodes; Trichodes calamistratus; Indian; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6269346; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269346

Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal (Plate 1; Figs. 6–10) Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal, 1948: 650, fig. 1. Type material Holotype. ɗ Ogaden AOI; Uarandab; Lomi V. 1936 (ZMA) Description Length: 10 mm (1 specimen) Head including eyes broader than apex of pronotum; black­blue; very finely punctate; with long and short dark pubescence; antennae and club red. AFRICA 10 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 0 1000 Mi . ProducedbytheCartographicResearchLab UniversityofAlabama tion. Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.16); lateral margin sinuate; densely punctate, base obscurely punctate; black­blue; dark pubescence with long hairs. Elytral ground color orange­brown; with three dark spots: the apical spot is connected along the suture with the securiform spot behind the middle, the anterior spots are isolated. Elytra two and a half times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.5); punctation irregular, dense, and obscured towards apex; diameter of punctures irregularly, mostly larger than intervals (especially within the dark spots), some punctures smaller than intervals; suture slightly protruding; sutural angle tapering apically, with tooth; with sparse dark to pale pubescence. Legs black­blue, tarsi brown; tibiae strongly curved, with long, white pubescence. Ventral surface black­blue, thorax glossy greenish; with white pubescence. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 6–9. Distribution See fig. 10. Collecting period May. Trichodes gemma Ancey (Plate 1; Figs. 11–15) Trichodes gemma Ancey, 1881: 461. Type Holotype in MNHN, but not found. Specimens examined 1 specimen, Bez. Tabora; Tehurter. (ZMB); 1 specimen, D. O. Afrika; Nyembe Bulungwa; Hammerstein S.; 1914 (DEI); 1 specimen, II. 10; leg. Holtz (DEI); 2 specimens, Tanzania IV. 92; Iringa Mts.; Werner leg. (CRG) Description Length: 9.5–10 mm (5 specimens) Head including eyes almost as ...