Tillicera michaeli Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010

Yang, Ganyan, Montreuil, Olivier & Yang, Xingke, 2011, New species, new records and new morphological characters of the genus Tillicera Spinola from China (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), ZooKeys 122, pp. 19-38 : 26

Tillicera michaeli Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010 new record from China Figs 4347

Tillicera michaeli Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010: 23 (Laos).

Diagnosis.

Differs from Tillicera bibalteata by having a tuberosity on elytral base (on third interval exactly), each basal elytral interval with a row of tubercules, integument from which two bands of golden setae originate black, elytra apex slightly projecting and acute, color of first three antennomeres black, legs reddish brown; from Tillicera hirsuta by having a tuberosity in basediscal elytra (on third interval exactly), diameter of interstitial tubercules smaller than diameter of punctures on elytra, integument from which two bands of golden setae originate black, elytral apex slightly projecting and acute, first four antennomeres black.

Distribution.

China: Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan; Vietnam; Laos.

Material examined.

Holotype: male, "Laos, Phongsaly Prov., Phongsaly env., Phu Fa, h: 1450-1600 m/27.VII.2006, leg. M. Geiser, Bergregenwald, Umgestürzter Baum/HOLOTYPE male, Tillicera michaeli sp. n., Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2009 Revision, Gerstmeier & Bernhard" (RGCM); Paratype: 2 specimens, same locality data as Holotype; 1 specimen, same data but 28.VII.2006 (RGCM).

Other material examined.

16 specimens: 1 male, Guangxi, Napo, Defu, alt. 1350m, 2000.VI.18, leg. LI Wenzhu (IZAS); 3 males, Guangdong, Nanling Nature Reserve, 2009. IV–VIII, leg. GAO Lei, by Malaise trap; 1 male, same data but by window trap; 1 male, same data but on soil; 3 males 2 females; same data but collecting methods unknown (IZAS). 1 male, Hainan, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Hongxin village, 19.0805°N, 109.5210°E, alt. 415m, 2007.XII.3, leg. YANG Ganyan, by searching on dead rubber branches on wayside (IZAS); 1 male, same data but leg. WANG Zhiliang (IZAS); 1 female, Hainan, Jianfengling Nature Reserve, 1983.V.27, leg. Gu Maobin, by hand (IZAS); 1 male 1 female, Tonkin, Mt. Bavi, 800-1000m, 1941.VII, leg. A. De Cooman (IZAS).