Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)
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Jin, Mengjie
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Ślipiński, Adam
Author
Keyzer, Roger De
Author
Pang, Hong
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Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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dorsal projections (
Fig. 1
J)............................................................
P. sordidus
(McKeown)
- Prothorax with sharp and straight lateral projections (
Fig. 2
F); pronotum with low but distinct nodules (
Fig. 2
G)...........................................................................................
P. queenslandicus
sp. nov.
Phlyctaenodes auratus
(McKeown)
FIGURE 1. A–C:
Phlyctaenodes pustulatus
(Hope)
,
A
: female,
B:
male,
C:
head and prothorax, lateral.
D–F, I:
Phlyctaenodes pustulosus
Newman,
D
:
female,
E:
male,
F:
head and prothorax, lateral,
I:
prothorax, ventral.
G, H, J:
Phlyctaenodes sordidus
(McKeown)
,
G, H:
male,
J:
head and prothorax, lateral.
(
Figures 2
D, 2E)
Tessaromma aurata
McKeown, 1942: 83
. TL:
New
South Wales
, Comboyne.
Phlyctaenodes auratus
:
Ślipiński & Escalona 2016
: 238
(comb. nov.).
Description.
Length
10.2 mm
. Body integument entirely reddish brown; dorsum covered by dense, adpressed golden setae not forming wavy pattern but mostly directed obliquely and posteriorly (
Fig. 2
D); ventral side uniformly brown with abdomen light brown, shortly setose; vestiture single, without bristles.
Head
covered with adpressed golden setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly indicated, slightly angulate medially; terminal maxillary palpomere ovoid. Upper eye lobe very narrow (
Fig. 2
E), width only 4 ommatidia across.
Antenna
extending slightly beyond elytral apices; scape relatively long, pedicel subquadrate; antennomere 3 shorter than scape, subequal to antennomere 4; antennomers 9–11 subequal in length.
Pronotum
length 0.9 times width, very densely punctate and setose; disc strongly convex without tubercles, with hardly visible median longitudinal depression; lateral edge with short broad based posteriorly bent median projection. Scutellum weakly concave with short setae.
Elytra
obliquely truncate apically; dorsum convex with median area at base separated from humeri by shallow depression; surfaces without granules or punctures bearing bristles, very densely micro punctate and setose, feebly shiny.
Legs
. Femora gradually thickened apically.
Types.
“Holotype | Comboyne, NSW, 1937, H.J.D & D.T.S |
Tessaromma aurata
McKeown
| Australian Museum K289468” (AM, holotype; probably female)
Remarks.
This is a very distinctive and quite unusual species differing from all
Phlyctaenodes
in having no indication of dorsal pronotal tubercles and elytra without bristle bearing punctures. The lateral projection on prothorax is very short and broad. Unfortunately, we were not able to examine this species in more detail because we had only partially damaged
holotype
for study.