Tillicera soror , Schenkling 1902
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Bernhard, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tillicera
Tillicera soror

description: Tillicera soror Schenkling, 1902   
(Figs. 16, 41–42)  
 Tillicera soror Schenkling 1902: 127; Schenkling 1903: plate 1, fig. 10; Pic 1934: 133 (Rhytidoclerus); Corporaal 1939: 26.   
 Specimens examined: Holotype: Type, Tillicera soror Schklg., British Bootang, L. Durel, Rene Oberthur (RMNH).   
 Paratypes: ♀. Tillicera soror, Schenkling, 1902, ZMAN type COLE.1800.1, Type: Tillicera soror Schklg., Cotype, British Bootang, Maria Basti, L. Durel, ex Mus., Lugd. Bat. (1 ex., ZMAN); ♀. Tillicera soror, Schenkling, 1902, ZMAN type COLE.1800.2, Type: Tillicera soror Schklg., coll. R. Oberthür, British Bootang, Maria Basti, 1899, ex Mus., Lugd. Bat. (1 ex., ZMAN).   
 Others: British Bootang, Padong Himalaya, 1914 rec.: L. Durel, ex coll. R. Oberthur (2 ex., RGCM); Inde, Ex Museo, Mniszech, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); Assam, India, Ex Museo, E. Hintz, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, 1900, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (2 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, L. Durel, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (8 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, 1899, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (18 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, L. Durel, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); Maria Basti, British Bootang, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (3 ex., MNHN); British Bootan, Padong, L. Durel, 1914, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (6 ex., MNHN); British Bootan, Padong, L. Durel 1914, Coll. A. Kuwert, Coll. R. Oberthur (3 ex., MNHN); Pedong, A. Desgodins, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); Pedong, A. Desgodins, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, L. Durel, 1898, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (20 ex., MNHN); British Bootang, Sakiou, L. Durel, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (2 ex., MNHN); Bhoutan, Anglais, R. Oberthur 1900 (1 ex., MNHN); Rongli, 26.– 27.7.1900, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (4 ex., MNHN); Khasis, 7.1894, Nat. Coll, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); Khasis, 7.1894, Nat. Coll, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); Gnatong, 1.– 2.7.1900, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); Ex Museo, Parry, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (3 ex., MNHN); Nepal: Kosi - #13, Depitar 27°27’N, 87°17’E to Barabishe, 27°26’N, 87°18’E, 1250– 560m, 12.6.01, NHMB Basel, expedition to Nepal, 2001 (2 ex., BMNH); Nepal: Kosi - #9a, Chichilla, 1900–2000m, 27°28’N, 87°14’E, 3.– 5.6.2001, NHMB Basel, expedition to Nepal, May / June 2001 (1 ex., NHMB); India, W Bengalen, 1000 m, Darjeeling Distr., Kurseong, Malloutar Umg. 6.–14.7., leg. N. Dangal 1989 (1 ex., NMEG); Nepal 469 Myagdi Distr., Myagdi Khola S Boghara, 1400 m, 27.– 28.5.1995, Martens & Schawaller (1 ex., SMNS); 413 Sankhua Sabha Distr., Arun Valley betw. Hurure and Chichila, tree, rich cultural land, 2000 m, 17.6.1988 Martens & Schawaller leg., Nepal-Expedition, Jochen Martens (1 ex., SMNS); British Bootang, Maria Basti, 1899, ex Mus. R. Oberthur 1922 (1 ex., ZMAN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, L. Durel 1899, ex Mus. R. Oberthur 1922 (2 ex., ZMAN); British Bootang, Maria Basti, L. Durel, ex Mus. R. Oberthur 1922 (1 ex., ZMAN); Gopaldhara, Darjeeling, 3440–4720 ft., H. Stevens, from Foliage, 1925 from, Brit. Mus. (1 ex., ZMAN); Gopaldhara, Nepal-Sikhim Frontier, H. Stevens 16.9.18, 1925 from, Brit. Mus. (1 ex., ZMAN); Gopaldhara, Nepal-Sikhim Frontier, H. Stevens 1920, 1925 from Brit. Mus. (1 ex., ZMAN); Gopaldhara, Bw., Darjiling, 4720 ft. -19., H. Stevens, 1925 from Brit. Mus. (1 ex., ZMAN); Ex Chinde, Deprepani 6000, Darjeeling, Bengal, J.C.M. Gardner, 19.4.1930, R.R.D. 22, B.C. R. 483, Cage 192 (1 ex., ZMAN); Zool. Surv. Ind., Sureil, 5000 ft., Darjiling dist. E. Himalayas, 11.–31.10.17, N.A. & F.G., 1937, Retained from Indian Museum Calcutta (1 ex., ZMAN); Zool. Surv. Ind., Above Tura, Garo hills, Assam, 3500–3900 ft., 15.7.–30.8.17, S. Kemp., on fallen tree, 1937, Retained from Indian Museum Calcutta (1 ex., ZMAN); Tonkin, Tugun, Quang, 5.1915, R. Vitalis de Salvaza leg., vend. 1929 (1 ex., ZMAN).   
 Length: 9–13mm (101 specimens)   
 Collecting period: April – October, December   
 Head: Black, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus black; distributed with fine punctation; cranium vested with dense, predominantly pale, setae; head including eyes slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.   
 Antennae: Dark-brown to black, A1 to A4 sometimes slightly paler, with depressed pale and dark setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A6 or A7 onwards, A10 broader than long, or as long as wide.   
 Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, surface anterior to transverse depression mostly black; surface anterior to transverse depression finely and diffusely punctate, posterior of transverse depression more coarsely and irregularly punctate; vested with anteriorly directed and erect dark and pale setae; length:width ratio 1.14:1 (broadest at middle).   
 Scutellum: Brown, with pale setae, finely punctate.   
 Elytra: Black; basal third with a red-brown macula (side margins bordered black), margined posteriorly by two yellowish pigmented transverse maculae (spanning from the lateral margin to mid-way towards suture) with dense, pale, depressed setae, between these maculae with a semicircular sickle-like pattern of pale setae, apical third with a pale yellowish pigmented transverse fascia (not always pigmented towards suture), with dense, pale, depressed setae; basal third regularly and deeply punctate with 6 to 7 deep rows, only sometimes extending towards posterior transverse fascia, the black part with fine, dense, punctation, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex densely and finely punctate; basal third with longer, erect, pale and dark setae, middle part predominantly with dark, posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, setae, apex with dark setae gradually more erect approaching apices; length:width ratio 2.24:1.   
 Legs: Brown to black, base sometimes paler, with dense, erect, pale setae; tibiae with longitudinal carina.   
 Ventral surface: Abdomen black to brown, thorax brown, with pale, depressed setae; 5 th ventrite of males deeply emarginated.   
 Aedeagus: Asymmetrical, tooth-like structures distinct, large parameres.   
 Distribution: Nepal, Bhutan, India.   
  Differential diagnosis to T. auratofasciata and T. javana:  The antennae of T. soror are triangularly (less stronger) dilated from A6 onwards; besides differences in punctation, also the coloration is different; the brown basal macula of T. soror is smaller, and less precisely bordered than that of T. auratofasciata and T. javana; parameres and pygidium also differ.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2359 (1) on pages 29-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760