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

description: Trichodes martini Fairmaire (Plate 2; Figs. 21–26)
Trichodes martini Fairmaire, 1896: 223.
Type material
Holotype. ɗ Lahadj; Dr. Martin (MNHN)
Paratypes. ɗ " Syntypus "; La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. A. Argod, 1931 (MNHN); Ψ " Syntypus "; La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. L. Bedel 1922 (MNHN); Ψ(?): "Cotypus"; Lahaadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. M. Pic (MNHN).
Specimens examined
3 specimens, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; specimen Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 2 specimens, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. L. Bedel 1922 (MNHN); 2 specimens, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; ex Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Yemen merid; Lahadj; Champenois 1905 (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; specimen Coll. M. Maindron; Coll. G. Babault 1930 (MNHN); 1 specimen, Lahadj; Dr. Martin; Coll. D. A. Chobaut; 1942 (MNHN); 1 specimen, H. Donkier; 1910 (MNHN); 1 specimen, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. L 40D Fairmaire; 1906 (MNHN); 1 specimen, La Haadje; Dr. Martin; Coll. A. Argod; 1931 (MNHN); Jemen 1970; Wadi Zabid; leg. A. Szalay­Marzso (CRG)
Description
Length: 8–16 mm (16 specimens)
Head including eyes broader, equal or smaller than apex of pronotum; black­blue; very densely and finely punctate; with dense, dark pubescence; antennae red, club sometimes entirely red or with only terminal segment dark.
Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.13); lateral margin sometimes strongly sinuate, constricted towards base; very densely punctate; black­blue; with long, dark pubescence, directed apically.
Elytral ground color orange­brown, with two black­blue fasciae and one apical spot; the fascia in the middle not reaching the suture, the fascia behind the middle is broader, mostly reaching the suture (but dilated); the apical spot is sometimes reduced to a very narrow fascia anterior to apspecimen
Elytra more than two times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.33); punctation more or less irregular, not very deep; diameter of punctures slightly larrger than intervals; apex more or less acute; with short, pale pubescence, and isolated dark hairs.
Legs black­blue to bluish­green; tarsi lighter; tibiae slightly curved; with white pubescence.
Ventral surface black­blue or bluish­green; with white pubescence. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 21–25.
Distribution
See fig. 26.
Collecting period
No details available.
Red
Sea
LakeChad
LakeTurkana
Lake
Albert
Lake
Victoria
Indian
Ocean
LakeTanganyika
LakeNyasa
South
Lake
Atlantic
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Pygidium. Scale 1 mm. FIGURE 26. Distribution.
PLATE 3. FIGURE 13. Trichodes penicillatus. FIGURE 14. Trichodes penicillatus ab. FIGURE 15. Trichodes pseudaulicus Holotype. FIGURE 16. Trichodes tugelanus Holotype. FIGURE 17. Trichodes tugelanus Paratype. FIGURE 18. Trichodes tugelanus ab.
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 14-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158590