Tsivoka, Villiers, 1892

Jeong, Soo-Hyun, Vives, Eduard & Mckenna, Duane D., 2025, A taxonomic revision of the Madagascar-endemic longhorn beetle genus Tsivoka Villiers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5632 (1), pp. 159-170 : 161-162

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4E789743-2614-44FE-9EDB-CDFB4FA7BA78

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA2F8796-FF83-FF8B-9E8F-F8FF2D8EB879

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scientific name

Tsivoka
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Key to species of Tsivoka View in CoL (modified from Villiers et al. 2011)

1. Head, pronotum and scutellum black ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4)............................................................. 2

– Head, pronotum and scutellum orange ( Fig. 1b View FIGURE 1 )........................................ T. peyrierasi Villiers, 1982 View in CoL

2. Elytra black with a distinctive bright orange mark restricted to humeral area ( Figs 1a View FIGURE 1 , 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4).......... T. humeralis sp. nov.

– Elytra brown to black, without a distinctive orange mark or with longitudinal orange vittae from humeri to apex of elytra (Figs 2, 7)............................................................................................... 3

3. Elytra light brown to black without clear yellow band; Meso and metatibiae yellow or red ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 )................................................................................................ T. testaceipes ( Fairmaire, 1889) View in CoL

– Elytra black with a narrow yellow band, clearly defined, extending from the shoulder almost to the apex. Meso and metatibiae black or dark brown. ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ).................................................... T. simplicicollis ( Gahan, 1890) View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

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