Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)
Author
Jin, Mengjie
Author
Ślipiński, Adam
Author
Keyzer, Roger De
Author
Pang, Hong
text
Zootaxa
2017
4277
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67
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journal article
32836
10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.5
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Key to species of
Tessaromma
1 Pronotum with pair of strongly elevated and narrowly separated admedian tubercles, often joined posteriorly (
Figs 3A, B
, I); small species, length usually less than
10mm
................................................................ 2
- Pronotal tubercles indistinct or broadly separated at middle (
Figs 3
E, G); larger species, length always over
10mm
....... 3
2 Genae in front of eyes with smooth yellow spot (
Fig. 3C
); elytral surface yellowish brown or dark brown;
Queensland and New
South Wales
......................................................................
T. nanum
Blackburn
- Genae in front of eyes without yellow spot; elytral surface black to dark brown with silver pubescence; New Guinea.........................................................................................
T. argenteonigra
Gressitt
3 Pronotal tubercles flat, indistinct; elytra with adpressed setae not forming marble-like pattern (
Fig. 3
G);
Tasmania
only...............................................................................................
T. triste
(Hope)
- Pronotal tubercles prominent; elytra with dense silvery or golden adpressed pubescence forming wavy, marbled pattern (
Figs. 3
E); eastern Australia..................................................................
T. undatum
Newman