Languropilus Pic, 1940

Roland, Gerstmeier & Jonas, Eberle, 2011, Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), ZooKeys 92, pp. 35-60 : 41

Languropilus Pic, 1940 Figs 15245162

Type species:

Languropilus fortipes Pic, 1940. Pic 1940a: 3.

Distribution:

Aethiopian region (East Africa).

Material examined:

Languropilus fortipes (females), Tanzania, Shinyanga Prov., Serengeti Sopa L., 19.XI.93, LF., Heiss (RGCM).

Description

Head:

With weakly protruding eyes, only very slightly emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space about two times one eye width; gular sutures long, converging, gular process broad; antennae short, A1 large, stout, almost two times longer than A2, A2=A3 or A2>A3, A3-A8 filiform, antennomeres becoming shorter, A8 almost spherical, A9 and A10 transverse, A11 ovate, terminal three antennomeres forming a distinct club.

Thorax:

Proepimeron medium-sized, more rounded than acute; anterior mesosternal process absent; metendosternite with normal furcal stalk length, stalk slender, base almost straight, furcal arms of more or less normal length, acute distally (Fig. 15). Elytra long, broadest behind middle, apices broadly rounded, elytral punctation arranged into ten striae.

Legs:

Of normal size, stout; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-3, tibial spur formula 1-2-2; tibiae without longitudinal carinae; claws simple.