Trachelophora andamanica Breuning 1961

Trachelophora andamanica Breuning, 1961 Fig. 5 F – I Trachelophora andamanica Breuning, 1961 b: 329 (original description, type locality: den Andamanen (Andaman Island); Kariyanna et al. 2017: 140 (monograph). Type material examined. Holotype: ♀ (NMB), Trachelophora andamanica mihi typ Breuning det. (handwritten and printed with black ink on a rectangular white label) / Andaman (handwritten with black ink on a rectangular white label) / TYPE (printed with black ink on a rectangular red label) (Fig. 5 F – I). Diagnosis. (holotype, based on quality photographs, and modified from the original description) Female distinguished from all congeners by its relatively large body, length 22.0 mm, width 7 mm, robust habitus, and red integument densely covered with dark reddish-brown tomentum. Pronotum and elytra bearing similar tomentose markings, those on the elytra golden orange; pronotum with a pair of ochraceous dorsolateral basal maculae. Head, pronotum, and elytra densely punctate. Antennae slender, ~ 2 / 3 longer than the body. Head with a broad, shallow median groove on the frons not reaching the clypeal margin; eyes deeply emarginate, with large lower lobes. Pronotum slightly transverse, armed with a pair of strong, acute, conical lateral spines. Elytra elongate, densely punctate to granulate, punctures irregularly arranged and becoming finer toward the apex; each elytron with a large ochraceous tomentose humeral macula, a small ochraceous lateral macula at the apical third, four small ochraceous subapical maculae, and individually obtuse apices. Remarks. The combination of a red integument densely covered with dark reddish-brown tomentum, golden-orange tomentose markings on the elytra, a pair of ochraceous dorsolateral basal pronotal maculae, a slightly transverse pronotum, a relatively narrow head, and large humeral together with smaller lateral and subapical ochraceous elytral maculae readily distinguishes this species from all congeners. Distribution. This species is currently known only from Andaman Island (Breuning 1961 b; Kariyanna et al. 2017).