Trachelophora spinipennis Breuning 1982

Trachelophora spinipennis Breuning, 1982 Fig. 7 A – E Trachelophora spinipennis Breuning, 1982: 143 (original description, type locality: Mainit near Brooks Point, Palawan Island, Philippines). Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ (EUMJ), Trachelophora spinipennis mihi typ Breuning det. (handwritten with green ink and printed with black ink on a rectangular white label) / Trachelophora spinipennis sp. nov. Det. By Breuning, 1992 (printed in black ink on a rectangular white label) / (PHILIPPINES) Mainit near Brooks Point Island Palawan V-VII. 1980 Collected by Natives (handwritten and printed with black ink on a rectangular white label) / TYPE (printed with black ink on a rectangular red label) (Fig. 7 A – E). Diagnosis. (holotype, based on quality photographs, and modified from the original description) Male small-sized body, length 15.0 mm, width 4 mm, elongate, robust habitus, and dark reddish-brown integument largely concealed by dense, short, recumbent ochraceous to grayish-ochraceous pubescence. Head distinctly narrower than the prothorax, more than half as long as the pronotum, with a very shallow median groove extending from the frons to the clypeal margin; genae longer than the lower eye lobes; eyes deeply emarginate, with large lower lobes. Antennae slender, with an elongate, distinctly clavate scape bearing several white ventral setae. Pronotum transverse, bearing a strong, acute conical lateral spine on each side; disc slightly convex, sparsely punctate, with rugulose to rugose interspaces. Elytra elongate, densely and irregularly punctate, granulate on the basal third and becoming finer toward the apex; pubescence forming distinct longitudinal ochraceous bands contrasting with sparser pale ochraceous to grayish-ochraceous pubescence; sutural carina dark reddish-brown and glossy; apices individually obtuse. Remarks. This species is readily distinguished from all congeners by the combination of its small body size, transverse pronotum with strong, acute lateral spines and a rugulose disc, very shallow frontal median groove reaching the clypeal margin, distinctly clavate scape bearing white ventral setae, and elongate elytra with contrasting longitudinal ochraceous pubescent bands and a glossy dark reddish-brown sutural carina.