Tarsostenus tricolor ( HELLER , 1916)

Opitz, Weston, G, Paratillus & B, Tarsostenodes, 2016, Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IV. Taxonomy of the Tarsostenodes complex of Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (1), pp. 587-636 : 617

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Tarsostenus tricolor ( HELLER, 1916) ( Figs 16 View Figs 2-21 , 41 View Figs 41-43 , 69 View Figs 67-70 , 93 View Fig )

Tarsostenosis tricolor HELLER, 1916: 277 . Lectotype. ♀. Here designated. Neukaledonien ( New Caledonia), Mt. Kanala, Drs. F. Sarasin & J. Roux (SMTD). CORPORAAL, 1950: 304. Heller did not indicate in his description whether his nominal species is based on more than one specimen. Therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the ICZN (1999) and designate a lectotype for this nominal species.

D i a g n o s i s: The black forebody and the white macula on the elytral disc will conveniently distinguish the members of this species from superficially similar specimens of Tarsostenus bicolor OPITZ , new species.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 69 View Figs 67-70 . Integument: Forebody black, elytra tricolorous, basal 1/4 th black, yellow-red in remain- der, except with a small white macula at the middle, femora mostly yellow, infuscated distally, tibiae and tarsus brown, pterothorax brown, abdomen yellow-red. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than width of eye (FW/EW-47/10); antennal funicular antennomeres subfiliform, 9 th triagonal, 10 th transverse, 11 th ovoid-oblong ( Fig. 16 View Figs 2-21 ). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, with slightly developed lateral tubercle, disc with glabrous elevations ( Fig. 41 View Figs 41-43 ) (PL/PW- 75/62); elytral disc with prominent asetiferous punctations that extend to elytral middle, with 1° setae, 2° setae present along epipleural margin and near elytral apex (EL/EW- 190/40). Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at middle of anterior margin.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 View Fig ): This species is known only from New Caledonia.