Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, Kanara 1895
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Bernhard, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tillicera
Tillicera aurivillosa

description: Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, 1895   
(Figs. 2, 21–22)  
 Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham 1895: 295; Corporaal 1939: 26.   
 Specimens examined: Holotype: ♂. Type, Gorham, Tillicera aurivillosa Gorham, Kanara, Museum Paris, Coll. Gorham, Olivier, 1914 (MNHN).   
 Others: India, Mysore, Coorg, Mercara, 5.73 1200m, leg. Th.R.S. Nathan (1 ex., RGCM); Maissour, Manganali, 1897 (1 ex., RGCM); Bombay, Fontanier 301-39 (1 ex., MNHN); India, Bombay, Ex coll. Janson, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); India, Ex Museo James Thomson, ex Coll. R. Oberthur (1 ex., MNHN); Inde Occidentale, Règion de Coorg, Chasseurs Indigènes, 2 e semestre 1905, Ex Coll. M. Maindros, Coll. G. Babault 1930 (1 ex., MNHN); Wallardi (Travancore), Ex Coll. M. Maindros, Coll. G. Babault 1930 (1 ex., MNHN); Nilgiri Hills, don. H.E. Andrewes (1 ex., ZMAN); Anamalai hills, 2400, Madras, J.C.M. Gardner, 10.5.1930 (1 ex., ZMAN).   
 Length: 11–15mm (10 specimens).   
 Collecting period: May.   
 Head: Red-brown to brown, clypeus, labrum and palpi brown; distributed with fine, dense punctation; cranium vested with short, erect, predominantly golden pubescence; head including eyes only slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.   
 Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A5 paler, vested with depressed golden setae; triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, antennomeres generally narrower than in all other Tillicera species; A10 as long as wide in females, longer than broad in males; A11 conspicuously extended.   
 Pronotum: Red-brown to brown; surface finely and irregularly punctate; with anteriorly directed erect dark and short golden setae; length:width ratio 1.07:1 (broadest in middle).   
 Scutellum: Brown to black, finely punctate, partially vested with very dense golden setae.   
 Elytra: Black, humeral and apical regions predominantly with long, erect, golden setae, posterior black region with loose depressed dark posteriorly directed setae; with two broad, pale pigmented transverse fasciae with dense, depressed, golden setae, the posterior fascia almost reaching the sutural angle; a pale pigmented macula is dilated around the scutellum; disc deeply punctate in regular rows from base towards posterior fascia, diameter of punctures broader than interstices; apex densely and finely punctate, sutural angle slightly emarginated; length:width ratio 2.11:1.   
 Legs: Brown, with erect golden setae; tibiae without carinae.   
 Ventral surface: Abdomen dark brown to black, pro-and mesothorax brown, metathorax dark brown to black with dense, depressed golden setae; penultimate abdominal sternite conspicuously emarginated in males.   
 Aedeagus: With tooth-like structures; parameres at lateral view strongly broadened.   
 Distribution: India.
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 9-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760