The collection of the genus Epepeotes Pascoe, 1866 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
Author
Xie, Guanglin
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-8985
Institute of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
Author
Barclay, Maxwell V. L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-2014
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Wang, Wenkai
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4482-076X
Institute of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China
wwk@yangtzeu.edu.cn
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ZooKeys
2023
2023-11-10
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184.111728
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184.111728
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Epepeotes meleagris (Pascoe, 1866)
Fig. 6h-k
Pelargoderus meleagris
Pascoe, 1866: 279. Type locality: Tondano [Indonesia].
Epepeotes meleagris
:
Breuning 1943
: 226.
Type material.
Indonesia.
Holotype
, male: 'Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Tondano [h, label oval, dark green]; Pascoe / Coll. / 93-60 [p];
Pelargoderus
/
Pelargoderus meleagris
/ Type Pasc. [h]; NHMUK014596272'.
Non-type material.
10 specimens.
Indonesia (8)
: Celebes (6 males, 2 females).
Country unknown (2)
: ex H. J. Carter (2 males).
Comments.
Dorsal markings of this species are reduced in some male individuals, as in females, with the eyelike black spot on each elytron is without conspicuous posterior pale margins and spots along the suture are uniting into a white line.