Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)
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Jin, Mengjie
Author
Ślipiński, Adam
Author
Keyzer, Roger De
Author
Pang, Hong
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Zootaxa
2017
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Phlyctaenodes sordidus
(Mckeown)
(
Figures 1
G, 1H, 1J,
4I
–L)
Tessaromma sordida
McKeown, 1940: 299
. TL: Queensland, Mt. Tamborine (AM, examined).
Phlyctaenodes sordidus
:
Ślipiński & Escalona 2016
: 238
.
Tessaromma truncatispina
McKeown, 1940: 299
. TL: Queensland, Bunya Mountains (AM, examined).
New Synonym.
Phlyctaenodes truncatispinus
:
Ślipiński & Escalona 2016
: 238
.
Description.
Length
14–24 mm
. Body integument yellowish brown to brown with elytra slightly lighter in apical half; entire dorsum covered by dense, golden setae forming wavy pattern, especially along elytral sides.
Head
with frontal area densely punctate, covered with adpressed golden setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly indicated, angulate medially; terminal maxillary palpomere ovoid in both sexes.
Antenna
in male extending 2 antennomeres beyond elytral apices, in female reaches elytral apices; scape relatively long, pedicel transverse; antennomere 3 shorter than scape, subequal to antennomere 4; both sexes antennomers 9–11 gradually shorter.
Pronotum
transverse, very densely punctate and setose; disc with two longitudinal admedian broadly separated tubercles; lateral edge with broad based sharp, posteriorly bent median projection. Scutellum convex with short setae.
Elytra
narrowly rounded to distinctly pointed apically; dorsum with three rows of sparse, shiny granules bearing bristles, additional smaller granules near lateral edges and apices; interspaces between granules very densely punctate and setose, feebly shiny.
Legs.
Femora not thickened apically, mid- and hind femora without dense setae.
Male genitalia.
Penis with two big sclerotized semicircular plates.
Types
.
“
Holotype
|
Mt. Tambourine
, S.Q.
,
19 Dec 1925
,
A.Musgrave
&
G.P.Whitley
|
Tessaromma sordida
McKeown
|
K53790
” (AM); “
Holotype
| Q.,
Bunya Mts.
, N.
Geary,
5.1.1938
|
Tessaromma truncatispina
McKeown
|
Australian Museum K
289467” (AM).
Material examined
(14,
ANIC
; 3, QM; 1,
SAM
; 1,
RDKC
).
Queensland
:
13km
SW by W of
Gordonvale
;
Mt. Glorious
;
Goodnight Scrub NP
., approx.
40km
WSW of Childers
;
Mt. Spec
; Kuranda;
9km
SSW of Kuranda
;
Yarraman,
2.2km
SE Bunya
Mtns.
New South Wales
:
Upper Lansdowne
escarpment below Comboyne
Plateau.
South
Australia
:
Mt. Lofty
.
Distribution
(Fig. 6B). Rarely collected species, known from isolated localities in
Queensland
, NSW and
South
Australia
.
Biological data.
Several adults were reared from branches of
Acradenia euodiiformis
(F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley
[
RUTACEAE
] collected on the Upper Lansdowne escarpment (ANIC).