Cladiscus weyersi Kraatz 1899
Creators: name: Murakami, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cladiscus
Cladiscus weyersi

description: Cladiscus weyersi Kraatz, 1899
(Figs 2, 16, 28, 35, 52–58, 126)
Cladiscus weyersi Kraatz, 1899: 213 [original description].LOΗDΕ (1900): 17 [listed]; S CΗΕΝΚLΙΝG (1910): 10 [listed]; CORΡORΑΑL +| VΑΝ DΕR WΙΕL (1949): 196 [key to species]; CORΡORΑΑL (1950): 24 [listed].
Type locality. Indonesia, Sumatra (after KRΑΑΤΖ 1899).
Specimens examined. TAIWAN: PIΝGτUΝG COUΝτ Y: Shouka, Shihtzu Township, 11.v.2014, 2 ♁♁, Jiafong Chen leg. (JCCT).
Differential diagnosis. This species is similar to C. mindanensis Chapin, 1924 from the Philippines, but it is distinguished by the following characters (CORΡORΑΑL +| VΑΝ DΕR WΙΕL 1949): scutellum red; head and pronotum finely and sparsely punctured.
Supplementary description. Male (Fig. 2). Head, pronotum, and antennomeres I and II brownish red; antennomeres III to XI, elytra, and legs brownish black.
Antennae (Fig. 16) longer than total length of head and pronotum combined; antennomere I swollen and bent; II compact; III to X pectinate, with branches arising at base of antennomeres; XI fusiform.
Pronotum smooth at apex; postcoxal projections (Fig. 35) long; prosternal process not extending contact point of postcoxal projections. Elytra with rows of large, deep, asetigerous punctures in basal half; apical margins finely indented. Mesoventrite with sparse setigerous punctures except for central portion. Metaventrite with evenly arranged fine setigerous punctures except for central portion; metaventral anterior process elongate, as wide as mesoventral posterior process. Metendosternite (Fig. 52) without furcal laminae; process extending anteriorly, tapered; furcal arms almost straight, extending anterolaterally.
Protibiae (Fig. 28) gently widening from basal 1/3 to apex, weakly curved; meso- and metatibiae almost straight. Tibial spur formula 0–0–0.
Apical margin of abdominal ventrite V broadly and weakly emarginate. Apical margin of pygidium (Fig. 53) straight; struts short. Apical margin of ventrite VI (Fig. 54) slightly emarginated. Spicular fork (Fig. 55) with intraspicular plate, which is 1/2 as long as spicular fork.
CM (Figs 56–58) covered with large spines and fine spines, 1/4 as long as tegmen. Tegmen shorter than phallus; phallobasic apodeme fused with phallobasic struts. Phallus widest at 1/3, thence tapered apically.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements and ratios. Male (n Y 2): BL: 8.08–8.82 mm; PL: 2.08–2.28 mm; PWA: 1.40 mm; PWM: 0.73–0.75 mm; PWB: 0.93–0.98 mm; EL: 6.00– 6.55 mm; EW: 1.50–1.63 mm; EyD: 0.75–0.78 mm; EyW: 0.38–0.40 mm; EL/PL: 2.88–2.89; EW/PWA: 1.07–1.16; EW/PWM: 2.07–2.17; EW/PWB: 1.62–1.67; PWA/PWB: 1.44–1.51; PWA/PWM: 1.87–1.93; PWB/PWM: 1.28–1.30; EyD/ EyW: 1.94–2.00.
Distribution (Fig. 126). Taiwan (new record); India (CORΡORΑΑL +| VΑΝ DΕR WΙΕL 1949); Indonesia: Sumatra (KRΑΑΤΖ 1899), Java (CORΡORΑΑL +| VΑΝ DΕR WΙΕL 1949).
description: Published as part of Murakami, Hiroyuki, 2020, Review of the genus Cladiscus (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Japan and Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 475-492 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (2) on pages 480-481, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.031, http://zenodo.org/record/4489548