A Review Of The Australian Macrotomini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae)
Author
Jin, Mengjie
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Author
Keyzer, Roger De
Research Associate, Entomology, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Author
Hutchinson, Paul
Quarantine WA, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Level 1, 24 Fricker Road, Perth Airport, WA 6105, Australia
Author
Pang, Hong
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Author
Ślipiński, Adam
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; adam. slipinski @ csiro. au
text
Annales Zoologici
2020
2020-03-30
70
1
33
96
journal article
10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003
6110e21e-b367-41ab-98f4-14b4b437c1c3
1734-1833
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Cnemoplites gahani
Lameere, 1912
(
Figs. 6
I–L,
17A
)
Cnemoplites gahani
Lameere, 1912: 134
. TL:
Hermannsburg
,
Northern Territory
.
Lectotype
in BNHM (designated here).
Diagnosis
.
Cnemoplites gahani
can be separated from other
Cnemoplites
species by the following characters: pronotum with at least some smooth area medially in both sexes; antennal scape as long as or slightly longer than antennomere 3; antennomere 3 about 1.5 times as long as antennomere 4; antennomere 11 elongate, almost twice of antennomere 10 length.
Description
. Male.
Length
50–60 mm
. Antennae extending to the middle of elytra; antennal scape extending beyond the posterior margin of eyes; antennomeres 3–8 weakly expanded apically; tibia bearing very dense hairs especially on ventral side; abdominal ventrites 1–4 covered with very dense and extensive setal patches.
Female.
Identification uncertain.
Types
.
Lectotype
male deposited in
BNHM
designated here (
BNHM-010799796
,
Figs. 6
I–J), with label “Hermannsburg, Central
Australia
,
H.J. Hillier
, 1911- 311”.
Other Material examined
(
Fig. 17A
).
South Australia
: AM
(1
♂
): S. Australia, A.H.C. Seitz.
Queensland
: ANIC
(1
♂
): Edungalba, 1957, E.E.A.
Remarks
.
Although the female
syntype
(BNHM- 010799817,
Fig. 6K
) bears the identical collecting labels as the male
lectotype
, we are uncertain if it belongs to the same species and have excluded it from the type series. This female differs from the male
lectotype
by having shorter antennal scape, shorter antennomeres 3 and 11, broader hypomeron; almost smooth elytra, and elongate tarsomere 1. This specimen is morphologically identical to the female of
Eurynassa tuberculicollis
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 8K
), occurring in the same area.
Taxonomic status of this species is uncertain as we have no molecular samples and very limited material for disposal. In addition to the
lectotype
we have found only two males that largely agree with the type but no females were collected associated with them.