Plathanocera lineata Pic 1933
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Stapel, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Plathanocera
Plathanocera lineata

description: Plathanocera lineata Pic, 1933
(Figs 9–10)
Pic 1933: 23.
Plathanocera lineata Pic, 1933, Lectotype (designated here): Lastourville, Gabon, G. Lebesky (MNHN).
Comment on the type specimens: As Pic (1933: 23) made no reference to type specimens in his descriptions of Plathanocera lineata, it cannot be assumed that the nominal species-group name, Plathanocera lineata, was based on a single specimen. The 'type' specimen located in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (MNHN) must therefore considered a syntype (ICZN 1999: Article 73.2) and available for lectotype designation (ICZN 1999: Article 74.1).
Other examined specimens: Côte d’Ivoire, Kound-Abronso, J. Decelle, 7.1961, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Yangambi (Stan.), 11-1959, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Congo (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Bingerville, 16/ 30-11-1962, J. Decelle (1 Ex., MRAC); Stanleyville, 9-1954, Collection J.G. Pantos, Coll. Mus. Congo, 511 (1 Ex., MRAC); Stanleyville,I X-1954, ex coll. J. Pantos, Coll. Mus. Congo, 489 (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Dibi, E. d'Aboisso, 7.1961, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Amanikro, 50 km N. W. Abengourou, V/ VI 1961, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Recolté sur cacaoyer (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Korea S. de Daloa, 6/7.1962, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Dibi, E. d'Aboisso, 3.1962, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Dibi, E. d'Aboisso, 7.1961, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Bingerville, VIII.1961, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Dibi, E. d'Aboisso, 4/5/6.1962, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC); Côte d'Ivore: Bingerville, 1/15-11.1962, J. Decelle, Coll. Mus. Tervuren (1 Ex., MRAC).
Length: 7–10 mm (14 specimens measured).
Head: Brown, slightly reddish, with dense and fine punctation, between eyes finely and diffusely punctate; with yellow, strong, hairs, directed towards middle. Frons with broad, black-brown, longitudinal stripe. Antennal base red, from A5 onwards black, A11 long, inner margin more or less straight, outer margin rounded, pointed, distal margin mostly yellowish. Gular process long, narrow.
Thorax: Pronotum red brown, paler towards lateral margins; with conspicuous wrinkles before anterior transverse impression, middle smooth, very finely and diffusely punctate, length to width index 0.81:1–0.88:1; vested with whitish to yellowish hairs, longer at lateral margins.
Elytra: Red brown, darker than rest, apex frequently paler; diameter of punctures only one third of interstices, interstices with fine longitudinal carina, punctures are orientated at this “line”, diameter of punctures decreasing towards apex, length to width index 1.71:1–1.86:1; elytra vested with sparse, yellow, erect and posteriorly directed hairs.
Legs: Reddish brown, with long, white, erect setae; tibiae darker, with short carinae at base.
Abdomen: Yellow-brown, V5 and V6 slightly paler, sparsely vested with fine, white hairs; pygidium laterally more round, apical margin straight; male V6 with slight emargination, female V6 without emargination.
Aedeagus: Tegmen with short apically tapering phallobasic lobes; phallobasic apodeme distally only slightly broadened (Fig. 10).
Distribution: Congo, Ivory Coast.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Stapel, Jessica, 2016, A review of the Tillicera genus group with a revision of Plathanocera Schenkling (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 517-540 in Zootaxa 4193 (3) on pages 531-536, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/167212