Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Huesmann, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Trichodes
Trichodes calamistratus

description: Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal (Plate 1; Figs. 6–10)
Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal, 1948: 650, fig.1.
Type material
Holotype. ɗ Ogaden AOI; Uarandab; Lomi V.1936 (ZMA)
Description
Length: 10 mm (1 specimen)
Head including eyes broader than apex of pronotum; black­blue; very finely punctate; with long and short dark pubescence; antennae and club red.
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Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.16); lateral margin sinuate; densely punctate, base obscurely punctate; black­blue; dark pubescence with long hairs.
Elytral ground color orange­brown; with three dark spots: the apical spot is connected along the suture with the securiform spot behind the middle, the anterior spots are isolated. Elytra two and a half times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.5); punctation irregular, dense, and obscured towards apex; diameter of punctures irregularly, mostly larger than intervals (especially within the dark spots), some punctures smaller than intervals; suture slightly protruding; sutural angle tapering apically, with tooth; with sparse dark to pale pubescence.
Legs black­blue, tarsi brown; tibiae strongly curved, with long, white pubescence. Ventral surface black­blue, thorax glossy greenish; with white pubescence. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 6–9.
Distribution
See fig. 10.
Collecting period
May.
Trichodes gemma Ancey (Plate 1; Figs. 11–15)
Trichodes gemma Ancey, 1881: 461.
Type
Holotype in MNHN, but not found.
Specimens examined
1 specimen, Bez. Tabora; Tehurter. (ZMB); 1 specimen, D. O. Afrika; Nyembe Bulungwa; Hammerstein S.; 1914 (DEI); 1 specimen, II.10; leg. Holtz (DEI); 2 specimens, Tanzania IV.92; Iringa Mts.; Werner leg. (CRG)
Description
Length: 9.5–10 mm (5 specimens)
Head including eyes almost as broad as apex of pronotum or slightly broader; green; densely punctate, with long, dark and short, white pubescence; antennae red, with black club.
Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.12); green; lateral margin circular, constricted towards base; densely and deeply punctate; with long, dark and pale pubescence.
Elytral ground color orange to red, reduced to three spots, all reaching the lateral margin, but not the suture; remaining color of fasciae green or greenishblue.
Elytra almost two and a half times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.44); densely punctate, more or less in rows; diameter of punctures within the spots of ground color smaller than intervals or almost equal, otherwise diameter of punctures larger than intervals; sutural angle slightly emarginate to sub­bevelled, and with tooth; sparse pubescence composed of long, dark hairs.
Legs greenish­blue; hind tibiae almost straight; pubescence consisting of long, white hairs and isolated, long, black hairs.
Ventral surface green to blue, with long, white hairs; pubescence of abdomen more sparse than thorax.
Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 11–14.
AFRICA
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North
Atlantic
BlackSea
Caspian
Sea
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Red
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LakeTurkana
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Lake
Atlantic
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Distribution
See fig. 15.
Collecting period
April, May.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Huesmann, Andrea, 2004, Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Trichodes HERBST, 1792 (Coleoptera, Cleridae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 694 on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158590