Diplocladus pulcher (Schenkling 1906) Schenkling 1906
- Dataset
- Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cleridae
- genus
- Diplocladus
- species
- Diplocladus pulcher
description
Head: Dark reddish brown to black; finely and diffusely punctate, and wrinkled. Antennae: Light reddish brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A 3 curved triangular. Pronotum: Dark reddish brown to black; conspicuously dilated anteriorly, conspicuously constricted towards base, coarsely wrinkled; anterior margin bent upwards in middle; length: width ratio 1.55: 1. Scutellum: Brown. Elytra: Dark brown; each elytron with a yellow transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; diameter of punctures of the first three rows smaller or more or less larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, punctures faint and partly elongate behind fascia; length: width ratio 2.08: 1. Legs: Dark reddish brown to black-brown. Lower surface: Dark brown to black-brown. Vestiture: With whitish to reddish hairs.
distribution
Distribution: Chad.