Apomecyna saltator (Fabricius, 1787)

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Lamia saltator Fabricius, 1787: 141. TL: Unknown; TD: ZMUC.

Distribution.

Palaearctic Region: China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh); Pakistan; Nepal (Yiu 2009; Lin and Yang 2019; Danilevsky 2020). Oriental Region: India; Laos; Vietnam (Hua 2002; Kumawat et al. 2015).

Macau records.

Great Taipa, 29 Apr 2019, on mosquito trap, R Perissinotto & L Clennell (IZCAS); Coloane Village, 31 May 2020, under light in ablution block, R Perissinotto & Lynette Clennell; St. Francis Xavier’s Parish [Coloane], 9 Jun 2020 2:38, Kit Chang (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49012866); ibidem 12 Jun 2020 23:50, Kisu Wong (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55504513).

Remarks.

In Macau, adults have so far been recorded only in late spring and range in total length 10-12 mm and 3-4.5 mm in maximum width. In nearby Hong Kong, however, they have been observed throughout the summer and there larval food plants include Cucurbita moschata, Benincasa hispida, Luffa acutangula and Lagenaria siceraria (Yiu 2009). Elsewhere, larvae have also been found boring into stems of Coccinia indica, Luffa aegyptiaca and Trichosanthes cucumerina (Beeson 1941; Nair 1975; David and Ramamurthy 2012; Kumawat et al. 2015).