Taxonomic revision of the longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Uracanthini) from Australia.
Author
Thongphak, Duangrat
Author
Wang, Qiao
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Zootaxa
2007
2007-08-31
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Uracanthus corrugicollis
Lea, 1917a
(Figs 53, 91, 113)
Uracanthus corrugicollis
Lea, 1917a: 742
.—
McKeown, 1947: 63
.
Description
Male. Body length
,
25.26 mm
;
width,
5.41 mm
.
Colour
(Fig. 53). Body reddish brown with head, thorax, and basal and apical elytra darker. Head, pronotum and elytra covered with fairly dense, more or less evenly distributed, whitish pubescence; pubescence on elytra generally shorter.
Head.
Postclypeus subtriangular and flattened, with fairly dense coarse punctures; frontoclypeal suture deep and wide in middle; distance between lower lobes of eyes 1.8 × as long as distance between upper lobes of eyes; distance between upper lobes of eyes 1.25 × as long as distance between eyes on ventral side; genal length 0.19 × as long as head width immediately below eyes. Antennae largely damaged.
Thorax and abdomen
. Pronotum 0.94 × as long as width, rounded with a small process at each side; posterior margin 1.22 × as wide as anterior margin; pronotal disc without distinct nodules in middle area; disc and side strongly rugose transversely. Scutellum semicircular, with sparse pubescence. Elytra 5.26 × as long as prothorax and 3.44 × as long as shoulder width; basal 1/3 with coarsely punctures; apex more or less rounded at margin and with a small spine at suture. Apex of terminal sternite rounded or slightly truncate.
Male terminalia
. Apex of ventral median lobe emarginate and apex of dorsal lobe with rounded; ventral lobe distinctly longer than dorsal lobe; spined region of internal sac divided into two sections; first section with sparse short simple spines on sides near base; second section with fairly dense long simple spines; unspined gap between first and second section above as long as second section (
Fig. 91a
). Eighth sternite rounded at side, shallowly emarginate at apex, with long and fairly long setae arising terminally; ventral surface with sparse cloud-like processes (
Fig. 91b
). Eighth tergite rounded at apex, with fairly dense simple spines and multi- branched spine on surface (
Fig. 91c
). Paramere long, 2.5 × as long as wide, cylindrical in shape, apex rounded with long and short setae (
Fig. 91d
).
Female.
Unknown.
Distribution
Southwestern
Western Australia
(
Fig. 113
).
Comments
This species differ from others species of
Uracanthus
in having very short genal length; pubescence on the elytra uniform without any line or stripe of denser pubescence. No other specimen matches the
type
.
Material examined
Holotype
.
♂
.
WA:
Mullewa
(
28º26'S
,
115º35'E
),
Miss J. F. May
; bearing a name label on which ‘TYPE’ was written in red; 8 segments of left antenna and 8 segment of right antenna damaged (
SAM
).