Pieleus Pic, 1940

Roland, Gerstmeier & Jonas, Eberle, 2011, Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), ZooKeys 92, pp. 35-60 : 45

Pieleus Pic, 1940 Figs 275566

Type species:

Pieleus irregularis Pic, 1940. Pic 1940b: 4.

Distribution:

China.

Material examined:

Pieleus irregularis (Type female), T’ienmu Shan, Musée Heude; 20.VII.36, O. Piel, coll.; Orthrius irregularis mihi [handwritten by Pic](MNHN).

Description

Head:

Eyes strongly protruding, conspicuously emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space about 1.5 eye widths; gular sutures diverging, gular process broad; antennae short, A1 more than two times longer than A2, A2 shorter than A3, A2-A6 filiform, antennomeres becoming shorter, A7 shorter than A6, slightly dilated distally, A11 sub-ovate, apical third pinched, terminal three antennomeres forming a loose club.

Thorax:

Proepimeron medium-sized, slightly rounded; anterior mesosternal process present; metendosternite missing. Elytra compact, strongly dilated apically (broadest behind middle), apices broadly rounded, elytral punctation not arranged into striae; without CuA2 in hindwings (Fig. 27).

Legs:

Of normal size; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-4, tibial spur formula 1-1-2; tibiae without longitudinal carinae; claws with basal denticle.