Review of Cycadophila Xu, Tang & Skelley (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas (Cycadaceae) in Asia, with descriptions of a new subgenus and thirteen new species
Author
Skelley, Paul
Author
Xu, Guang
Author
Tang, William
Author
Lindström, Anders J.
Author
Marler, Thomas
Author
Khuraijam, Jibankumar Singh
Author
Singh, Rita
Author
Rich, Stephen
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Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.575641
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Cycadophila
(
Cycadophila
)
yunnanensis
(Grouvelle)
Pharaxonotha yunnanensis
Grouvelle 1916
: 61
;
Schenkling 1923
: 15
;
Mader 1926
: 721
;
Schenkling 1928
: 31
;
Węgrzynowicz 2007
: 536
.
Cycadophila yunnanensis
(Grouvelle)
;
Xu
et al
. 2015
: 20
–23, 25–26 (
lectotype
designation).
Adult diagnosis.
A member of
Cycadophila
(
Cycadophila
)
nigra
species group as discussed above distinguished from related species by its smaller body with or without color pattern, weakly depressed submental-gular region, distinct supraocular stria less than 1/3 length of the eye, and male with small rounded swelling at the middle of the inner mesotibial margin. A full description and images are presented in
Xu
et al
. (2015)
.
Type
locality.
Yunnan
,
China
.
Range.
Known from
Guangxi
and
Yunnan
provinces,
China
,
Manipur
state,
India
and
Laos
.
Material
examined.
Lectotype
,
5
paralectotypes
and other specimens as discussed in
Xu
et al
. (2015)
.
Others
examined
:
CHINA
,
Yunnan Province
,
Guanping Reserve
,
22°10'N
,
110°50'E
,
10 May 1996
,
W. Tang
, ex spent
♂
strobilus of
Cycas dolichopylla
[
Cycas
sp.
aff.
collina
], WT 44 (4)
;
LAOS
,
Houphan Province
, Viengxay Ds.,
Vieng Xai
vill.,
20°23′41″ N
,
104°13′44″ E
,
7-IV-2015
,
N. T. Hiep
,
L. Averyanov
,
N. S. Khang
,
N. Q. Hieu
,
T. Maisak
,
Somneux
(7).
These
additional materials examined are deposited at
ANIC
and
FSCA
.
Remarks.
Xu
et al
. (2015)
detected large numbers of adults of this species in male cones of
Cycas debaoensis
that had finished shedding their pollen. However, no larvae of the species was detected, suggesting that this species is an opportunistic visitor that does not reproduce in male
Cycas
cones and that it may feed and reproduce in alternative hosts. DNA analysis of the 16S rRNA gene suggests a complex of three cryptic species (see
Fig. 1
). Three color morphs can be discerned, but none are confined to any of the three haplotypes detected. Unfortunately, our morphological analyses have not yielded any other characters to support that more than one species is present. For now,
C. yunnanensis
is considered to be a variably colored species occurring in southern
China
, northern
Laos
and northeast
India
that needs more detailed work. See Remarks under
C. vittata
and the Remarks of
C. yunnanensis
in
Xu
et al
. (2015)
.