Notes on the genus Apomecyna Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of two new species from Pakistan Author Ahmed, Zubair Author Barševskis, Arvīds text Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 2024 24 1 65 76 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf027 journal article 10.59893/bjc.24(1).006 1407-8619 14657468 Apomecyna fallaciosa Breuning, 1938 ( Fig.3 ) Material examined: 2♂ , 1♀ , Umerkot , Tharparkar , Sindh Province , Pakistan , 11.viii.2022 .leg; Zubair. 25° 22' 0" North , 69° 44' 0" East . Measurement: body length 10.00 mm Coloration: body black with dense grey hairs, elytra dark brown. Head small, vertex transversely convex, frons depressed at middle, frons with a 70 median line, clypeus, short, broad, anterior margin straight, covered with coarse punctures and white hairs, labrum short, black, transverse, mandibles short, broad, basal antennomere narrower at base, broad entire, antennomere 2 small, slender, antennomere 3 slightly longer (1.00 mm) than 4 ( 0.8 mm ), apical antennomere small, finger-like, covered with white dense hairs. Pronotum almost quadrate, anterior margin slightly narrower than posterior margin, anterior margin with smooth band, lateral margin sinuate at middle, disc with broad and coarse punctures; scutellum short, lobate; elytral shoulders distinct, lateral margins parallel, apices obliquely conical, each elytron with light patches of yellow hairs at humeri, middle and apices, strial punctures coarsely elongate; prosternum with very narrow process, expanded at base, mesosternal process elongate, scarcely broad with median sulcation; legs short, slender, tarsi 3 segmented; ventrites with coarse, deep scattered punctures, with white dense piles, pygidium transverse, anteriorly rounded, covered with dense white hairs, bunch of long hairs raised at middle. Male genitalia: figure 3 (e,f,g) Aedeagus with median lobe invisible, parameres elongate, blunt apex, median sclerites of endophallus short, feebly curve down, tegmen with apophysis elongate. Basal plate transverse, broader than long, base angulate. Female genitalia: figure 3 (b,c) segment VIII pear shaped, segment IX small, expanded above. Note: The species is known from Pakistan and Uttar Pradesh ( Löbl & Smetana, 2010 ). Fig.3. Apomecyna fallaciosa Breuning , a) male habitus, b,c) male genitalia d) basal plate, e) tegmen, f) sternite IX 71