To the knowledge of Erythrus philipinus Vives, 2021, Xystrocera danilevskii Vives, 2013 and Xystrocera festiva Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with new distribution data in the Philippines
Author
Barševskis, Arvîds
Author
Torrejos, Chrestine
text
Baltic Journal of Coleopterology
2021
2021-09-30
21
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65
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12520132
1407-8619
12520132
Erythrus philipinus
Vives, 2021
(
Fig. 1
)
References:
Vives, 2021: 117
Type
deposited:
EVC
Type
locality:
Philippines
,
Mindanao island
Material examined:
Palawan
isl.,
Roxas
, 12.2020. (
1 female
, local collector leg.). This is the first published information on the discovery of this species after its description and the first record for
Palawan
Island.
Vives (2021) recently described this species after
one male
from
Mindanao isl.
,
Philippines
, collected on 05.2018. Our collection also includes
one specimen
of this species, a female found on
Palawan
Island
at 12.2020.
Below
is a brief description of the female of this species
.
Description. Female.
Body in general black, elongate, narrow. Dorsal surface of elytra and pronotum red. Length: 16.0 mm, maximal width:
4.3mm
. Head elongated, flattened, with convex, bilobate eyes. Dorsal surface of head with coarse punctures, irregular wrinkles and sparse tomentum. Medioapical portion between antennal bases elevated, with wide and long keel, and with narrow, long impression. Labrum dark-brown, slightly pubescent, shiny. Clypeus brown, transverse, shiny. Mandibles dark-brown, with sharp apex, massive, elongated, shiny,with dense and coarse punctures, wrinkles and lateral pubescence. Cheeks separated from forehead with a sharp, shiny keel, with sparse pubescence. Antennae black, relatively short, ends at the apical third of elytra, with slightly enlarged antennomeres, which apically with an elongated tooth at the outside (except apical antennomere). Pronotum cylindrical, widened in middle. Apical and basal portions neck-shaped narrowed. Middle portion of pronotum with two dark rounded spots, very fine pubescence and fine punctures. Scutellum small, with dark pubescence.
Pars stridens
forming smooth spot, with very fine transverse microsculpture. Elytra almost parallel-sided, from middle slightly narrowed apically, subcylindrical, with indistinct, slightly raised shoulders hump. Elytra matte, with densand relatively fine punctation and fine sparse pubescence. Dorsal part of each elytron with two smoothed longitudinal ribs. Surface of elytra behind scutellum darkened, with dark ban along suture. Apical margins of each elytron slightly concave, with small, short sharp extension near suture. Elytra at apical third slightly widened. Ventrolateral surface of body with coarse microsculpture and dense pubescence. Legs black, tarsomeres dark-brown, covered with dark pubescence.
Fig. 1.
Erythrus philipinus
Vives, 2021
(DUBC)
The female differ from the male by shorter antennae - in females they end at the apical third of elytra, but in males near the apex of elytra. In females, the apical third of elytra is more enlarged than in males. Both the male Vives (2021)
holotype
and the female in our collection are
16 mm
long, while the largest width of the
holotype
described in the Vives article is
3.8 mm
, and the female described in the article is
4.3 mm
wide.
Xystrocerini Blanchard, 1845