A revision of the genus Eutetrapha Bates (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini)
Author
Lin, Mei-Ying
Author
Bi, Wen-Xuan
Author
Yang, Xing-Ke
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4238.2.1
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Eutetrapha chrysochloris chrysargyrea
Bates, 1884
Figs. 96–97
,
149
f–149k
Eutetrapha chrysargyrea
Bates, 1884
: 256
.
Type
locality:
Japan
,
Higo
(=
Kumamoto
Pref.),
Oyayama
. Type depository: MNHN.
Eutetrapha metallescens
var.
chrysargyrea
;
Matsushita, 1933
: 404
.
Eutetrapha chrysargyrea
;
K. Ohbayashi, 1963
: 315
, pl. 158, figs. 9a & 9b;
Kojima & Hayashi, 1969
: 156
, pl. 49, fig. 7.
Saperda chrysargyrea
:
Abdullah & Abdullah, 1966
: 89
Eutetrapha chrysochloris chrysargyrea
; Kusama & Takakuwa, 1984
In
: the Japanese Society of Coleopterology (ed.) 1984: 518, pl. 90, figs. 620 b–c; N.
Ohbayashi
et al.
, 1992
: 635
; Kurihara & A. Saito,
In
:
N. Ohbayashi & Niisato, 2007
: 654
, pl. 73, fig. 16;
Chou
et al.
, 2010
: 316
, figs 21–23, 25;
Löbl & Smetana, 2010
: 323
.
Eutetrapha chrysochloris
;
Pu & Jin, 1991
: 190
(part);
Hua, 2002
: 208
(part);
Hua
et al.
, 2009
: 213
, 354 (part), pl. LXXVIII, 896.
Supplementary description.
Length
12–17 mm
. Body black, furnished with golden-green scales and with white to brown erect hairs. Inner below of first and 3rd antennal segments, each tibia and dorsum of tibiae furnished with feeble silver-blue hairs, posterior tarsi with white hairs, especially at sides (
Fig. 149
j); pronotum provided with black maculae on each lateral side and a pair on dorsum. Elytra with lateral sides black with narrow or short green longitudinal stripe (
Fig. 149
h); each dorsum with three black maculae, apical one elongated and curved like a hook. Frons in male narrower than twice width of inferior eye-lobe.
Diagnosis.
This subspecies is distinguishable from
Eutetrapha chrysochloris chrysochloris
(Bates)
by outer angle of elytral apex quadrate or with minute spine; elytral maculae more or less smaller and an apical hook-like maculae sometimes separate into two ones; antennae slightly longer (N. Ohbayashi,
January 2016
, personal communication).
In the original description,
Bates (1884)
noted as follows: “Approaches
Glenea
more nearly than any of the other species, the first ventral segment being somewhat longer than other either of the three following; the apices of the elytra are, however, very obtusely and narrowly truncated.”
Remarks.
According to N. Ohbayashi (2016, personal communication), the black maculae on the pronotum or elytra are rather variable though it shows the tendency for two groups in Japanese population. The most important difference of these two subspecies is the spine of elytral outer apex. But this spine of nominotypical subspecies seems to show the cline on the degree. That of the Hokkaido population (type locality) is most developed, but getting shorter toward southwest of Honshu, and the population of extreme western Honshu cannot be distinguished from
E. c. chrysargyrea
of Shikoku and Kyushu. Therefore, these two subspecies could be synonymized. We refrain from proposing any synonymies in this work since colleagues in Japan are better positioned to study and assess the situation in Japan.
Distribution.
Japan
(Shikoku, Kyushu and Chugoku district (extreme western) of Honshu).
Specimens
examined.
Japan
:
1 female
(
Fig. 97
),
Ehime
Pref. Imabari,
Mt. Narabara
, 2010
.
VIII.8
, leg.
N. Ohbayashi
(
IZAS
, ex. CNO);
1 male
(
Fig. 96
),
Ehime
Pref.,
Odamiyama
,
Hônomata forest
road, 1995
.
VII.1
, leg.
N. Ohbayashi
(CNO);
1 female
,
Ehime
Pref.,
Mt. Ishizuch
,
Tsuchigoya
, 1997
.
VI.21
, leg. N. Ohbayashi (CNO).