Tenerus quadrimaculatus, Corporaal, 1926

Faisal, Mohammad, Singh, Sudhir & Yousuf, Mohammad, 2014, Cleridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) type collection at National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India), Zootaxa 3846 (1), pp. 105-118 : 113

13. Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. biguttulus Corporaal, 1933: 118 ( Fig. 4b )

Holotype: White label 1 stating collection locality as “Nedungayam, Nilambur, Madras [ INDIA: Madras (Kerala)], C. F. C. Beeson, 20. vi. 1924 ”. White label 2 stating “ex Pterocarpus marsupium ”. White label 3 stating “ J. B. Corporaal, Type, Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. biguttulus n. sp.”. Red label 4 stating “Type”. White label 5 stating “Antenna broken”.

Remarks. On one tag “antennae broken” is mentioned but there is right antenna with scape only.

Paratype: White label 1 stating “collection locality as Nilambur, Madras[ INDIA: Madras (Kerala)], J. C. M. Gardner, 8. vi. 1930 ”. White label 3 stating “ J. B. Corporaal, Paratype, Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. biguttulus ”. Green label 4 stating “ Paratype ” .

Figures

FIGURE 4. (a) Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. apicipennis, Holotype, (b) Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. biguttulus, Holotype, (c) Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. nigrior, Holotype, (d) Tenerus quadrimaculatus ab. pallidicornis, Holotype.