Tsivoka testaceipes ( Fairmaire, 1889 )

Tsivoka testaceipes ( Fairmaire, 1889) View in CoL ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 )

Mastododera testaceipes Fairmaire 1889 View in CoL ; Fairmaire 1893: 514 (type locality: Madagascar Est. Antsianaka et Lac Alaotra;

holotype, MNHN) Mastodontodera testaceipes Künckel 1890: 347 View in CoL (misspelling); Alluaud 1900: 347 (catalog) Mastodera anticipes Fairmaire 1893: 513 View in CoL (misspelling) Mastodontodera anticipes Alluaud 1900: 346 View in CoL (catalogue) Mastododera anticipes Aurivillius 1912: 169 View in CoL (catalogue); Boppe 1921: 55; Corinta Ferreira & Veiga Ferreira 1959: 358 Mastododera testaceipes Aurivillius 1912: 170 View in CoL (catalogue); Boppe 1921: 55; Corinta Ferreira & Veiga Ferreira 1959: 359

(catalogue) Tsivoka testaceipes Villiers 1982: 159 (synonymy, comb. nov.); Villiers, Quentin & Vives, 2011: 342, 343 (type locality:

Madagascar Est, Sous-Préfécture d’Ambatondrazaka; neotype, MNHN )

Redescription (revised from Villiers et al. 2011): Length 13–22 mm. Light brown to black, red mouthparts, concolorous or elytra with the periscutellar and suture area dark, or dark with a light stripe starting from the humeral depression towards the apex, this band sometimes reduced to a line towards the rear of the elytron, red fore-, mid- and hindlegs, with brown or black femurs, tibias, and red tarsi; black ventral side. Head very finely and densely pitted. Gena is one and a half times longer than the lower eye lobe. Frons twice (male) to just over twice (female) wider than an eye seen from dorsal view. Temple with less setae in females. Antenna orange reaches the level of the apical sixth of the elytra (male) or only the apical third (female). Scape longer than flagellomere 1; flagellomere 3 through 8 sharp outer edges with 2 small pits; Mandible and maxillary palpi reddish brown with dense yellow setae. Pronotum densely punctate, with short pubescence, only partially masking the integument, as long or a little longer than broad at base in both sexes; protrusions obsolete, contiguous discs; oval, oblique basal protuberances, highlighted by a depression along their anterior edge; sides of the pronotum straight and subparallel behind, strongly concave and convergent forward; pronotum lateral tubercles protruded with obtuse angle. Procoxae about each other. Elytra with prominent shoulders, two and a half times (male) to 2.2 times (female) longer than wide together at the base, covered with a lying, silky pubescence which hides the integument, except in the region of the humeral depression where relatively strong and loose punctation is distinguished. End of the inner edge of the male hind tibia with a tiny triangular projection.

Material examined: Madagascar, Fianarantsoa, Fitovavy Fitovinany Region, District of Ifanadiana Belle Vue area 1200 m S of Ranomafana National Park entrance, 1018m, (-21.2665, 47.42017), VI GoogleMaps .3.2002– VI. 13.2002, Rin’ha, Mike , female ( CAS) ; Madagascar, Fianarantsoa, Fitovavy Fitovinany Region, District of Ifanadiana , 12 km W of Ranomafana, 1127m, (-21.25083, 47.40717), X.7.2004–X.20.2004, Rin’ha, Mike, female ( CAS) GoogleMaps ; Madagascar, Toamasina, Analanjirofo Region, District of Toamasina, MOBOT Site, Analalava humid dense forest low altitude on the sand 7 km SW of Foulpointe, 75 m, (- 17.69333, 49.46028), Rin’ha, Mike, female ( CAS) GoogleMaps ; Madagascar, Toamasina, Réserve Naturelle Betampona, 34.08 km 332° Toamasina , 525m, (-17.91977, 49.20039), I.13.2008– I.20.2008, B.L. Fisher, male ( CAS); ditto II.17.2008–II.24.2008, B.L. Fisher, female ( CAS); Réserve Naturelle Betampona, 34.1 km 332° Toamasina GoogleMaps , 550 m (-17.916135, 49.20185), I.18.2009–I.25.2009, B.L. Fisher, female ( CAS); ditto, female ( CAS) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Eastern and southwestern Madagascar ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 ). T. testaceipes can be found in subhumid, lowland, and dry deciduous forests in Madagascar.