Diplocladus pulcher ( Schenkling, 1906 )

Gerstmeier, Roland & Weiss, Ingmar, 2009, Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae), Zootaxa 2242, pp. 1-54 : 20

Diplocladus pulcher ( Schenkling, 1906)

(Figs. 11, 50–51)

Diplophorus pulcher Schenkling, 1906: 109 (Diplophorus) .

Length: 15.7mm (1 specimen).

Head: Dark reddish brown to black; finely and diffusely punctate, and wrinkled. Antennae: Light reddish brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A3 curved triangular. Pronotum: Dark reddish brown to black; conspicuously dilated anteriorly, conspicuously constricted towards base, coarsely wrinkled; anterior margin bent upwards in middle; length:width ratio 1.55:1. Scutellum: Brown.

Elytra: Dark brown; each elytron with a yellow transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral to sutural margins; diameter of punctures of the first three rows smaller or more or less larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, punctures faint and partly elongate behind fascia; length:width ratio 2.08:1.

Legs: Dark reddish brown to black-brown.

Lower surface: Dark brown to black-brown.

Vestiture: With whitish to reddish hairs.

Distribution: Chad.