Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola, 1844

Opitz, Weston, 2010, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VIII. The Genera Acanthocollum Opitz, Stegnoclava Opitz, and Ichnea Laporte, The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 9) 64, pp. 1-65 : 36

Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola, 1844

( Figs. 75, 141 , 159 ; Map 4 )

Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola, 1844: 162 . Lectotype ♀. By subsequent designation (Ekis 1975: 49). Type locality: Colombia. The following description of this rarely collected species is based on one specimen from OXUM.

Diagnosis. The bicolored facies of the elytra ( Fig. 75) are diagnostic for this species.

Description. Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 4.1 mm. Form ( Fig. 141 ): Narrowly triangular. Integumental color ( Fig. 75): Black, except posterior half of elytral disc yellow. Head: HW/ PW 1.0; frons indented; EW/VW 1.9; antenna as in Fig. 159 , funicle compressed. Thorax: PL/ PW 1.2; elytra strongly flared to posterior two-thirds, EL/PL 5.4; EL/EW 2.3; anterior margin of protibia with 12 spines.

Distribution. Known only from an unspecified location in Colombia ( Map 4 ).

Figures

Map 4. Geographic distribution of Ichnea spp.

Figs. 140–141. Line habiti of 140) Ichnea lycoides;

Figs. 157–168. Antennae of Ichnea spp. 157) I. aequinoctialis; 158) I. acanthomelina; 159) I. dimidiatipennis; 160) I. digna; 161) I. divisa; 162) I. gremia; 163) I. incerta; 164) I. plumbea; 165) I. marginella; 166) I. atra; 167) I. aterrima; 168) I. gregata.