Erymanthus ater Hintz 1905
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Salvamoser, Max
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Erymanthus
Erymanthus ater

description: Erymanthus ater Hintz, 1905
(Figs 8–9, 39 A)
Hintz 1905: 308.
Specimens examined: Holotype: N. Kamerun, Joh. Albrechtshöhe, L. Conradt S., Type, Schenkling det., Erymanthus ater m, Holotypus, Erymathus ater Hintz, 1905, labelled by MNHUB 2012 (ZMB).
Comment on type specimens: Hintz (1905: 308) describes one specimen from Johann Albrechts-Höhe, therefore the specimen of Zoologisches Museum Berlin (ZMB) is considered the holotype, fixed by monotypy (ICZN 1999: Article 73.1.2).
Others: Muséum Paris, Senegal, Podor, R. Chudeau. 1911, Chôut. Sept. 1910 (MNHN). N. Kamerun, Joh. Albrechtshöhe, 1897-99, L. Conradt S. V., 1229, Erymanthus ater Hintz, Museum f. Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB). Uamgebiet, Bosum, 11.– 20.6.14, Tessmann S., 10024-10030, Erymanthus ater Hintz, Museum f. Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB). Uamgebiet, Bosum, 11.– 20.6.14, Tessmann S., C9544-9548, Erymanthus ater Hintz, Museum f. Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB). N. Nigeria, Kaduna, 7.–9.71, leg. H. Politzar, Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Erymanthus ater Hintz ♂, J. J. Menier det. 1981 (MRAC). Fort-Crampel, Congo-Français, Coll. X, Erymanthus horridus Ww. (HNHM). Soil-Zoological Exp. Congo-Brazzaville, Brazzaville, ORSTOM park, 22.12.1963, No. 494, beaten and singled, leg. Balogh & Zicsi, M. Budapest (ISNB). Elfenbeinküste, Comoe-Park, 25.6.1993, lg. Rödel (RGCM). Rep. Centrafric., La Maboke, 3.4.1977, N’Gombé-Docko Réc. (RGCM).
Diagnosis: Erymanthus ater can be confused with E. revoili, E. horridus and E. pustulosus; E. revoili has conical pronotal gibbosities and a conspicuous rasp-like punctation; E. horridus shows a longitudinal ridge in its pronotal groove and has a conical phallic tip; the tegminal struts of E. pustulosus are broadly furcate and the tips of tegminal lobes are blunt; E. ater is clearly recognizable by the long antennomeres 9–11.
Length: (10 specimens measured) 10–14mm (average 11.75mm).
Head: Black; antennae brown; frons with two gibbosities; with whitish to yellow anteriorly directed pilosity; antennomere 2 longer than A3; antennomeres 9–11 longer than 1–8; with a large club.
Pronotum: Pronotal length to width ratio 1.04:1 to 1.13:1 (average 1.08:1); black, pronotal arch lighter; apex sometimes with light markings; pronotal groove shallow, gibbosities protuberant; broadest in the middle; with long yellow-brown pilosity.
Scutellum: Black; vested with white setae.
Elytra: Elytral length to width ratio 2.13:1 to 2.47:1 (average 2.36:1); black with diaphanous markings; punctation fine, elongate-ovate, interstices wider than diameter of punctation, irregularly distributed; with dense posteriorly directed red brown to black pilosity; gibbosities with dense fine punctation (sometimes with dark setal tuft).
Legs: Dark, sometimes basal part of meso- and metafemora lighter.
Lower surface: Dark, with dense posteriorly directed white pilosity.
Male genitalia, pygidium, ventrite VI: Tips of tegminal lobes pointed, tegminal lobes three-eighths length of tegmen; tegminal struts quite narrow, last one-fifth furcate; phallic tip blunt; posterior side of pygidium rounded, very slightly pointed; processes of ventrite VI pointed.
Distribution: Senegal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo.
Seasonal occurrence: Collected from June to December.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Salvamoser, Max, 2014, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Erymanthus Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 501-548 in Zootaxa 3755 (6) on pages 505-507, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/251514