Strotocera minuscula Gerstmeier & Weiss

Gerstmeier, Roland & Weiss, Ingmar, 2009, Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae), Zootaxa 2242, pp. 1-54 : 42

Strotocera minuscula Gerstmeier & Weiss , n. sp.

(Figs. 28, 80–81)

Specimens examined:

Holotype: 3. Coll. Mus Tervuren, Cameroun: NKolbisson, 23. IV.1968, NKolbisson, 23-IV-68 ( MRAC). Paratpyes: Yaoundé, St. de NKolbisson, 23-I-67, Muséum Paris, Cameroun, B. de Miré, Museum Paris, de Miré (Ƥ, MNHN); NKolbisson, 14.IX.67, Museum Paris, de Miré leg. (Ƥ, MNHN).

Length: 6.6mm – 9.4mm (3 specimens).

Head: Black, wrinkled with some scatterd punctures.

Antennae: Light brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A5–A10 serrate. Pronotum: Black, narrowly dark red at apex; anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; disc finely and diffusely punctate and wrinkled, with very slight elevations behind transverse depression; length:width ratio 1.37:1.

Scutellum: Red-brown to black.

Elytra: Basal half black, each elytron with a whitish lateral spot in the basal third (scarsely visible in one specimen) and a whitish to yellowish transverse fascia (reduced to a transverse spot in one specimen) in the middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; light brown behind fasciae; diameter of punctures smaller than interstices, impunctate towards apex; length:width ratio 2.53:1.

Legs: Brown to black, tarsi light brown.

Lower surface: Head and thorax dark brown to black, abdomen light brown. Vestiture: With whitish to yellowish hairs.

Distribution: Cameroon.

Etymology: This is one of the smallest species of Strotocera ; " minuscula " means quite small.