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

description: Tillicera hirsuta (PIC, 1926)   
(Figs. 7–8, 28–29)  
 Thanasimus hirsuta PIC 1926: 22. n. comb.   
 Specimens examined: Holotype: Type, Thanasimus hirsutus, n. spec., Clerini, Lac Thò, Tonkin, Museum Paris, Coll. M. Pic (MNHN), Thanasimus hirsutus n. comb.   
 Others: W - Sumatra 9.– 29.10.1991, Payakumbuth, Harau-Vall., 1000 m, leg. A. Riedel, coll. R. Gerstmeier (1 ex., RGCM); Harau, W. Sumatra, Indonesia, 7.1996 (1 ex., RGCM); Lac Thô, Tonkin (1 ex., RGCM); Phu yen binh, 1907 (1 ex., RGCM); Sud Borneo, Goenong Pandjang, Tanggarang, M.E. Walsh, 6.1937 (1 ex., MNHN); Est Borneo, Babi djoelon, M.M.E. Walsh, 1937 (1 ex., MNHN); Tonkin occ., Règ. de Hoa Binh, 1919, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); Hoa Binh, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); Pho.Vi, 6.1907, Coll. M. Pic (1 ex., MNHN); Sumatra, Palembang, H. Donckier 1898 (1 ex., MNHN); Sandakan, Borneo, Baker (1 ex., ZMAN); Sarawak, Kuching, 17.6.1899 (1 ex., ZMAN).   
 Length: 7–14mm (13 specimens).   
 Collecting period: June, July, October.   
 Head: Black or red-brown to red, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus dark brown to black; distributed with dense, fine punctation; cranium vested with erect pale and dark setae; head including eyes scarcely broader than anterior width of pronotum.   
 Antennae: Dark brown, A1 to A4 or A5 light brown, vested with depressed, short pale and dark setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A6 onwards, A10 broader than long.   
 Pronotum: Red-brown to brown; surface finely and irregularly punctate, punctation anterior to transverse depression denser; vested with anteriorly directed erect, short white and longer black setae; length:width ratio 1.09:1 (broadest in middle).   
 Scutellum: Brown, finely punctate, vested with pale setae.   
 Elytra: Black, with two yellowish pigmented transverse fasciae (spanning from the lateral margin to midway towards suture), with dense, depressed, pale setae, and a brown macula surrounding the scutellum; humeral callous present; basal third deeply punctate in rows, appearing irregular, near humeral callous only rows 4 to 8 extending almost to posterior fascia, rows 2, 3 and 9 only obscure or terminating shortly behind the anterior fascia, diameter of punctures larger than interstices; apex densely and finely punctate; basal third with erect golden and dark setae, remainder with predominantly posteriorly directed, semi-decumbent, long, dark setae, apex with long, erect, golden setae; length:width ratio 2.01:1.   
 Legs: Brown to red-brown or black, base frequently paler, with dense, pale, erect and isolated dark setae; hind tibiae with or without carinae.   
 Ventral surface: Abdomen dark brown to black, thorax brown to red-brown, with dense, depressed, pale setae.   
 Aedeagus: Tip slightly asymmetrical, with tooth-like structures.   
 Distribution: Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia (Borneo, Sabah, Sarawak).   
  Differential diagnosis to T. bibalteata:  The antennomeres of T. hirsuta are dilated from A6 onwards, in T. bibalteata from A5 onwards; the head of T. hirsuta is unicoloured black, T. bibalteata has at least the posterior part red-brown; the apex of elytra is emarginated in T. hirsuta, not in T. bibalteata.
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 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760