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 text ZooKeys 2023 2023-11-10 1184 19 39 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184.111728 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184.111728 1313-2970-1184-19 78124FF820424F51BAA4BF692AF9551C C13CF1FC393C5000814F7602BB942DD8 Epepeotes desertus obscurus (Aurivillius, 1926) Fig. 1g, h Diochares desertus var. obscurus Aurivillius, 1926: 102. Type locality: Buru [Indonesia]. Epepeotes desertus s.- sp. obscurus : Breuning 1943 : 229. Epepeotes desertus ssp. obscurus : Breuning 1961 : 326. Epepeotes desertus obscurus : Barsevskis 2020 : 180. Non-type material. 14 specimens. Indonesia (14) : Ceram (2 females); Mausela (5 males, 7 females). Comments. Breuning (1943) stated that the subspecies E. desertus rhobetor is distinguished from the subspecies E. d. desertus by the body usually smaller, the antennae more slender, the body markings yellow, and the elytral spots small and separate, with only a few individuals uniting into narrow transverse bands before and after the middle; the subspecies E. d. obscurus is separated from the nominate subspecies by the elytron with less concave apex and reduced body markings. However, the holotype of E. d. rhobetor (Fig. 1d ) has the complete premedian transverse band and the postmedian band consisting of several large spots that are not fully fused, which is different from the description and illustration by Breuning (1943) . Olivier (1808) illustrated the dorsal view of the species Cerambix fimbriatus Olivier, 1795 (Fig. 1c , now a synonym of the nominate subspecies), which differs from E. d. rhobetor and E. d. obscurus mainly in the large and complete premedian and postmedian transverse bands on the elytra. However, the body markings and size are variable in this species, which make it difficult to accurately distinguish the three subspecies. The taxonomic status of the three subspecies is expected to be resolved by further study of more type and non-type material, perhaps with the possible removal of the subspecies-level status.