Tillicera bibalteata Gorham, 1892

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 : 25-26

Tillicera bibalteata Gorham, 1892 new record from China Figs 4145

Tillicera bibalteata Gorham, 1892: 732 (Carin Hills, Chebà).

Diagnosis.

Differs from Tillicera hirsuta by absence of tubercular rows on basal elytral intervals, elytral apex not emarginate; from Tillicera michaeli by absence of tuberosity on elytral base (on third interval exactly) and absence of tubercular rows on basal elytral intervals, integument from which two bands of golden setae originate yellow, elytra apex not projecting nor acute, color of first three antennomeres light paler, legs black.

Distribution.

China: Yunnan, Sichuan, Hainan; Bhutan; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; Cambodia.

Material examined.

Lectotype designated by Gerstmeier & Bernhard (2010): female, "Tenasserim, Thagatà, Fea. Apr. 1887/Typus /bibalteata, Gorh./Syntypus, Tillicera bibalteata , Gorham, 1892 [handwritten by Raffaello Gestro]/Museo Civico di Genova/LECTOTYPE ♀, Tillicera bibalteata , Gorham, 1892, Revision 2009, Gerstmeier & Bernhard" (MCSN); Paralectotype: Carin Chebà, 900-1100 m, L. Fea V XII-88, Museo Civico di Genova (MCSN).

Other material examined.

12 specimens: 1 male, Yunnan, Jingdong, alt. 1170m, 1956.VI. 30, leg. Kryzhanovskij (IZAS); 1 female, Yunnan, Jingdong, Dongjiafen, alt. 1250m, 1956.VI.19, leg. A. Shnitnikov (IZAS); 1 male, Yunnan, Jinping, Mengla, alt. 500m, 1956.V.2, leg. HUANG Keren (IZAS); 1 male, Yunnan, Xiaomengyang, alt. 850m, 1957.V.3, leg. ZANG Lingchao (IZAS); 1 male, same data but leg. WANG Shuyong (IZAS); 1 male, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengpeng, alt. 550m, 1959.VI.27, leg. LI Suofu (IZAS); 1 female, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Damenglong, alt. 650m, 1958.V.4, leg. HONG Chunpei (IZAS); 1 female, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, alt. 1200-1400m, 1958.V.21, leg. MENG Xuwu (IZAS); 1 male, Yunnan, Mengla, Yaoqu, alt. 850m, 2005.V.11, leg. CUI Jianxin (CAU); 1 male, Sichuan, Chengdu, 1955.V.28, leg. HUANG Keren & JIN Gentao (IZAS); 1 female, Hainan, Shuiman, alt. 640m, 1960.V.25, LI Changqing (IZAS); 1 female, Mt. Doi Pui, 1400-1500m, Chiang Mai, N. Thailand, 20 –V– 1982, T. Shimomura leg. (MNHN).