Trichodes tugelanus Gorham

Trichodes tugelanus Gorham (Plate 3; Figs. 37–41)

Trichodes tugelanus Gorham, 1900: 72.

Type material

Holotype. ɗ Tugela R., Weenen, Natal X.96 (MNHN) Paratype. ɗ “ Syntypus ”; Weenen, Natal; Gorham; Coll. S. Schenkling (DEI)

Specimens examined

1 specimen, Port; Natal; specimen Coll.; R. Oberthur (MNHN); 1 specimen, Natal; Weenen; XI.1923; H.P. Thomasset (SANC); Verulam; Natal; Spiller; specimen Coll; R. Oberthur (MNHN)

Description

Length: 10–12 mm (5 specimens)

Head including eyes more or less as broad as apex of pronotum; black­blue; finely punctate; with short, pale and longer, dark (brown) hairs; antennae red, club dark.

Pronotum longer than broad (length:width ratio 1.22); coarsely punctate; lateral margin subparallel to circular, constricted towards base; black­blue; with sparse brown pubescence.

Elytral ground color yellow­brown to orange or red, reduced to three fasciae, or elytral ground color predominant, with the black­blue fasciae reduced to an anterior spot in the middle, a heart­shaped spot and a broad apical spot behind the middle.

Elytra almost three times as long as broad (length:width ratio 2.93); anterior to middle regularly punctate in rows, behind middle irregularly punctate; diameter of punctures larger than intervals, within orange spots (ground color) smaller than intervals; some intervals protruding, similar to a ridge; sutural angle acute.

AFRICA

AralSea

North

Atlantic

BlackSea

Caspian

Sea

MediterraneanSea

Red

Sea

LakeChad

LakeTurkana

Lake

Albert

Lake

Victoria

Indian

Ocean

LakeTanganyika

LakeNyasa

South

Lake

Atlantic

Kariba

0

1000

Km

1000

Mi

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Legs dark blue, tarsi lighter (brownish); hind tibiae very slender and almost straight; with long, white pubescence.

Ventral surface green­blue; with long, white hairs.

Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 37–40.

Distribution

See fig. 41.

Collecting period

November.