Tarsostenus univittatus ROSSI. A 1792
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
name: G, Paratillus
name: B, Tarsostenodes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tarsostenus
Tarsostenus univittatus

description: Tarsostenus univittatus ROSSI, 1792(Figs 8, 36, 44, 46, 48, 70, 88)   
 Clerus univittatus ROSSI, 1792: 44. Neotype. Here selected. Australia. 15°38'S 125°.15'E, CALM Site 28/3 4km W of King Cascade, W.A. 12-16-June 1988, T.A. Weir. A second label reads: at light, open forest. (ANIC). The neotype is selected in accordance with Article 75.3.1 of the ICZN (1999). T. univittatus ROSSI is a cosmopolitan species. By selecting a neotype I fix the type locality of the species. Despite intensive efforts this Rossi type has not been found and is believed to be lost. There is ample historical literature cited in CORPORAAL, 1950: 304. More recently, this species was mentioned by BÖVING, 1920: 613, CRAIGHEAD, 1920: 628, 1950: 198, MCKEOWN, 1952: 270, HORION, 1953: 164, EKIS & GUPTA, 1971; 63, KOLIBÁČ, 1987: 104; 1989: 36; 2003: 50, FOSTER & LAWRENCE, 1991: 451, MATTHEWS, 1992: 5. GERSTMEIER 1998: 199. SOLERVICENS, 2005: 330, and OPITZ, 2010: 79; 2012: 33.   
 D i a g n o s i s: There are two species in this genus in which the elytral disc is predominantly brown, T. univittatus and T. antehelvis. In the latter species the forebody is red-yellow. In T. univittatus specimens the forebody is brown.   
 D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.5 mm; width 0.9 mm. Form: As in Fig. 70. Integument: Cranium dark brown, rest of body brown except elytral disc with white fascia at middle. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate (Fig. 46), frons wider than width of eye (Fig. 44) (FW/EW-20/11); antennal funicular antennomeres subfiliform, 9 th and 10 th antennomeres triagonal, 11 th oval (Fig. 8). Thorax: Pronotum sparsely punctate, with glabrous streaks at center of disc, without lateral tubercle (Figs 36, 48) (PL/PW- 48/42); elytral disc with prominent asetiferous punctation that diminish just beyond white transverse fascia, elytral preapical region subglabrous, with 1° setae, 2° setae restricted to preapical region of elytral disc (EL/EW- 130/28). Abdomen: Male pygidium not incised at middle of anterior margin; phallobase slightly sclerotized ventrally, lobes very small, fimbriate, phallobasic rod bifid distally, phallobasic struts contiguous with phallobasic apodeme, phallic apex triangular, phallic plates narrow, spicular apodemes fused (Fig. 88).   
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 3.5- 5.5 mm; width 0.9-1.2 mm. Other than size, the beetles before are quite homogeneous.  
 N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: A common predator on Lyctus FABRICIUS, including L. brunneus STEPHANS, L. africanus LESNE, and L. planicollis LECONTE. Also known to prey on the bostrichid beetle Xylothrips flavipes ILLIGER. Many specimens were reared from the flowering plants Sterculia alata Linnaeus (Malvaceae) and Cassia fistula LINNAEUS (Fabaceae). Edward P. Stebbing associates T. univittatus with bamboo infested with the wood borers Sinoxylon crassum Lesne, S. anale Lesne, and Dinoderus pilifrons Lesne. With regard to the biology of T. univittatus CRAIGHEAD (1920: 628) writes, "Is principally a predator on powder post beetles as Lyctus and Sinoxylon in dry, seasonal wood products. Reared from ash timber infested with Lyctus parallelocollis, received from Portsmouth Navy Yard; from hickory lumber infested with Lyctus; persimmon blocks containing work of Lyctus and Sinoxylon; white oak infested with Lyctus; from hickory axe handles containing Lyctus, and other similar articles."   
D i s t r i b u t i o n:Thisspeciesiscosmopolitan.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, G, Paratillus & B, Tarsostenodes, 2016, Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IV. Taxonomy of the Tarsostenodes complex of Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, pp. 587-636 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (1) on pages 617-618, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5417172