Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)
Author
Jin, Mengjie
Author
Ślipiński, Adam
Author
Keyzer, Roger De
Author
Pang, Hong
text
Zootaxa
2017
4277
1
67
85
journal article
32836
10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.5
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1175-5326
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Phlyctaenodes queenslandicus
sp. nov.
(
Figures 2
F, 2G)
Description.
Length
11.5 mm
. Body integument reddish brown with elytra slightly lighter than head or pronotum; entire dorsum covered by dense, golden setae forming wavy pattern, especially on elytra; ventral side uniformly brown with abdomen light brown, shortly setose.
Head
with frontal area densely punctate, covered with adpressed golden setae; frontoclypeal suture angulate medially; terminal maxillary palpomere weakly expanded; eyes very coarsely facetted, upper lobe with 5 ommatidia across near apex.
Antenna
extending to elytral apices, scape relatively long, pedicel transverse; antennomere 3 shorter than scape or antennomere 4; antennomers 9–11 subequal in length.
Pronotum
weakly transverse, very densely punctate and setose; disc with two larger conical broadly separated tubercles before middle and smaller pair behind; lateral edge with triangular sharp, median projection. Scutellum weakly convex with short setae.
Elytra
rounded apically; dorsum with three rows of sparse, shiny granules bearing bristles, granules becoming smaller and less regular in apical fourth; interspaces between granules very densely micro punctate and setose, feebly shiny.
Legs.
Femora distinctly thickened apically, mid- and hind femora without dense setae.
Types
.
Holotype
, sex unknown:
Queensland
: “GS3 Hugh
Nelson
Ra,
1–30 Nov 1995
,
L. Umback
,
1150m
,
Malaise Trap
” (
ANIC
).
Remarks.
Phlyctaenodes queenslandicus
is very similar to
P. sordidus
but is distinguished in having the pronotum with low nodules, and sharp and straight lateral projections.