Pieleus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Cleridae
Name
Pieleus Pic, 1940 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type species:
Pieleus irregularis Pic, 1940. Pic 1940b[1]: 4.
Distribution:
China.
Material examined:
Pieleus irregularis (Type female), T’ienmu Shan, Musée Heude; 20.VII.36, O. Piel, coll.; Orthrius irregularis mihi [handwritten by Pic](MNHN).
Description
Head:Eyes strongly protruding, conspicuously emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space about 1.5 eye widths; gular sutures diverging, gular process broad; antennae short, A1 more than two times longer than A2, A2 shorter than A3, A2-A6 filiform, antennomeres becoming shorter, A7 shorter than A6, slightly dilated distally, A11 sub-ovate, apical third pinched, terminal three antennomeres forming a loose club.
Thorax: Proepimeron medium-sized, slightly rounded; anterior mesosternal process present; metendosternite missing. Elytra compact, strongly dilated apically (broadest behind middle), apices broadly rounded, elytral punctation not arranged into striae; without CuA2 in hindwings (Fig. 27).
Legs: Of normal size; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-4, tibial spur formula 1-1-2; tibiae without longitudinal carinae; claws with basal denticle.
Taxon Treatment
- Roland, G; Jonas, E; 2011: Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae) ZooKeys, 92: 35-60. doi
Other References
- ↑ Pic M (1940b) [......]. Opuscula martialis 1:1-16.
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