Kudekanye: A New Genus of Longhorned Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) From the Lowland Fynbos and Renosterveld Ecosystem of South Africa
Author
Rice, Marlin E.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2008
2008-03-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/983.1
journal article
10.1649/983.1
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Kudekanye
Rice
,
new genus
Type
species.
Kudekanye suidafrika
Rice
,
new species
(present designation).
Description.
Medium sized with nearly uniform brownish-yellow coloration.
Head
narrowing distinctly behind the eyes, pubescence dense between eyes, and coronal suture deeply furrowed.
Eyes
coarsely faceted, moderately emarginate, lower lobes large, globose, and nearly touching at gena with separation less than distance between upper lobes.
Mandibles
long, slender, and sharply acute near tip.
Antennae
extending beyond elytral apices by approximately 6 antennomeres, scape not reaching anterior margin of pronotum, segments 3–9 cylindrical and slightly arched, but not flattened.
Pronotum
quadrate, slightly narrower than head, posterior margin sinuate, lateral tubercles small and obtuse.
Elytra
lateral margins not parallel, tapering toward apices, distinctly and finely punctured except near apices, which are broadly acuminate without spines or emarginations.
Legs
long and slender, tibiae slightly arched, first metatarsus longer than the second and third metatarsi combined.
Etymology.
The genus name, considered to be feminine, is derived from the Xhosa word for ‘‘extreme’’—a reference to the extremely long antennae relative to the length of the body.
Comments.
This genus is superficially similar to the newly described genus
Afroartelida
Vives and Adlbauer (2005)
but differs most notably by the extremely
3
4 long antennae and the lower lobes of the eyes, which nearly touch at the gena (
Table 1
). Characters for separating these two genera, plus another south African
Apatophyseinae,
Ottessia
, are given in
Table 1
.