Opilo longipilis Fairmaire 1892
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Opilo
Opilo longipilis

description: Opilo longipilis Fairmaire, 1892   
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 Material examined. YEMEN: SOCOTRA: YEMEN, SOCOTRA Island, Kaza Kazihon vill. env., 12°31′13″N, 53°55′36″E, 900m, 5.vi.2012, V. Hula & J. Niedobová leg. (1 ♀, NMPC); Yemen, Soqotra Is., 2003, 2-3/xii., Dixam plateau, WADI ESGEGO, 300 m, N12°28′09″ E54°00′36″ [GPS], David Král lgt., YEMEN-SOQOTRA 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král (1 spec. JRCP); YEMEN, Socotra Isl., Shuab, 10.iii.2000, V. Bejček & K. Štastný lgt. (1 spec. JRCP).   
 Redescription. Body length 6.0– 12.8 mm. Head glossy black to brown-black, with isolated punctation and wrinkles or almost smooth. Labrum, anterior part of clypeus and palpi yellow-brown to brown, mandibles red-brown to black, with black tips; posterior part of clypeus glossy red-brown. Antennae brown, extend beyond pronotum midlength, with loose trimerous club. Head including eyes slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum, vested with long, erect, pale setae; eyes large, protruding, separated by less than one eye’s width. Ventral surface glossy dark brown.   
Prothorax slightly longer than wide (length = 1.2–2.3 mm, width = 1.0– 2.1 mm; mean length to width ratio 1.00: 1.15), anterior part subparallel, widest in middle, constricted towards base. Pronotum yellow-brown to black brown, glossy, almost smooth, with very isolated, fine punctation; anterior transverse depression slightly bulging, vested with long, erect, pale setae. Ventral surface yellow-brown to dark brown, glossy, prosternal process narrow, dilated distally; hypomera short, broadly rounded; procoxal cavities broadly open posteriorly.  
Scutellum transverse-ovate, yellow-brown to dark brown. Anterior mesoventral process strongly protruding.  
Elytra yellow-brown to dark brown, long (length = 3.8–8.8 mm, width = 1.3–3.1 mm; mean length to width ratio 1.00: 2.72), subparallel to very slightly dilated behind middle, apices slightly bevelled to straight. Basal third of each elytron with longitudinal oblong, dark brown macula (mostly not reaching suture or side margin); apical macula dark brown, reaching suture, but not side margin, apically V-shaped emarginate with yellow. Sometimes yellow ground color reduced to transverse macula across both elytra, expanding anteriorly and posteriorly. Punctation consists of ten rows of fine punctures, almost reaching apex; larger interval present between rows I and II; puncture diameter conspicuously smaller than interstices. Surface vested with long, erect, pale setae.  
Legs long, pale yellow-brown to dark brown, tips of femora, base of tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Metatibiae slightly curved, not reaching apex of elytra; carina continuous; with long, erect, pale setae.  
Abdomen yellowish-brown, whole ventral surface with long, erect, pale setae.  
 Distribution. So far recorded from northern Africa (Libya, Egypt), the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman), Israel and Iran (GERSTMEIER 2010). First record from Socotra Island.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland, 2017, Cleridae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island with description of new species, pp. 113-123 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 on pages 120-121, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0112, http://zenodo.org/record/5325022