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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10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.5
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Escalonia intricata
(Gressitt)
comb. nov.
(
Figures 5
G, 5H)
Zoedia intricata
Gressitt, 1959
: 139
. TL:
Papua New Guinea
,
Sogeri area
(
BPBM
, examined).
FIGURE 5. A–C, I–L:
Escalonia loxleyae
(McKeown)
;
J:
median lobe,
K:
tegmen,
I:
sternite VIII,
L:
tergite VIII.
D–E:
Escalonia surprise
sp. nov.
(Holotype, ANIC);
F:
Escalonia carolinae
sp. nov.
(Holotype, ANIC);
G–H:
Zoedia intricata
Gressitt
(Holotype, BPBM).
Description.
Length
7.6mm
. Body slender, integument dark reddish brown with light yellowish brown markings; dorsum with sparse, relatively long bristles; elytra with raised costae forming characteristic pattern with three or four parallel costae on each elytron, and a sloped transverse vein in the middle, crossing all the costae.
Head
reddish brown, densely punctate with sparse setae; frontoclypeal suture well-developed, arcuate; clypeus weakly concave. Eyes large, extending to the ventral side, strongly emarginate near antennal insertion, weakly emarginate near mandibular articulation. Antenna slightly longer than body, slender; scape relatively long, thickest before apex, longer than antennomeres 3 and 4 combined; antennomere 4 slightly shorter than 3.
Pronotum
transverse, matt and densely punctate; disc light brown in the central area, surface uneven but without obvious dorsal projections. Scutellum hairless and matt.
Elytra
truncate to slightly pointed apically, bearing sparse long setae; disc with three to four parallel raised costae on each elytron, and a sloped transverse vein near the middle; elytra finely punctate, with nearly invisible adpressed hairs originating from the punctures; the dorsal surface not glabrous, showing very dense small nodules under higher magnification.
Legs
slender, pale yellow to yellowish brown; each femur with very strong tooth.
FIGURE 6.
Distribution.
A:
▲
Phlyctaenodes pustulatus
(Hope)
.
B:
▲
Escalonia surprise
sp. nov.
; ●
Escalonia loxleyae
(McKeown)
; ■
Phlyctaenodes sordidus
(McKeown)
; O
Tessaromma triste
(Hope)
.
C:
O
Tessaromma undatum
Newman.
D
:
●
Phlyctaenodes pustulosus
Newman
;
*
Tessaromma nanum
Blackburn.
Types
.
“
Holotype
Zoedia intricata J.L.Gressitt
| Bisianuma Rubber Exper. Sta.,
500m
, near
Sogeri, NE
of
Port Moresby
,
10 Aug. 1957
,
Szent-Ivany
” (
BPBM
,
Holotype
Bishop 2810).
Distribution.
Known only from a single locality in
Papua New Guinea
.