Allotisis repleta, Wang, 2000

Wang, Qiao, 2000, Taxonomy, phylogeny and distribution of the longicorn beetle genus Allotisis Pascoe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Phoracanthini), Journal of Natural History 34 (8), pp. 1685-1712 : 1693-1696

Allotisis repleta sp. nov.

(®gures 3, 5, 14)

Description

Male. Body length: 13.2 mm.

Colour. Anteclypeus, labrum, maxillary and labial palpi yellowish brown, antennae, legs and elytra reddish brown to dark reddish brown, remaining parts blackish brown or more or less dark reddish brown. Elytra with a slightly raised, light yellowish brown ivory fascia in front of middle; the fascia wide at external margin and narrow at suture, divided transversely by a more or less complete zigzag dark band; a large oval yellowish brown spot on disc before apex (®gure 5).

Head. Distinctly narrower than prothorax; frons and vertex not particularly heavily depressed like A. furva sp. nov. so the area from vertex to frons curved and slightly convex, with dense and large punctures and dense golden depressed hairs. No carinae between antennal tubercles; distance between lower lobes of eyes slightly more than twice distance between antennal socket and lateral angle of post clypeus, and more than 1.5 times but less than twice distance between upper lobes of eyes. Antennae distinctly longer than body; segments 3±7 with small apical spines; segment 3 about 12 times length of its apical spine, and distinctly longer than scape, segments 4 or 5; scape not grooved above.

Thorax and abdomen. Prothorax slightly longer than wide. Pronotum rugose, granulose and un-nitid, with seven raised nodules: central one distinctly raised, large, oval and nitid; anterior pair slightly raised, small, smooth and nitid, medial pair slightly raised, small and slightly granulose, and posterior pair distinctly raised, large, granulose and un-nitid; the interspace of nodules rugose and granulose, with fairly dense punctures, each producing a long whitish erect hair, and with dense white depressed hairs; rounded tubercles at lateral sides. Scutellum triangular with dense white depressed hairs on disc. Metasternum with dense punctures and fairly dense depressed hairs. Elytra subparallel, nitid, slightly less than three times length of prothorax; apex slightly emarginated with a short spine at marginal angle and a very small tooth at sutural angle; basal half of disc with dense, large and deep punctures, about one-third of the punctures producing long yellowish brown erect hairs; apical half of disc with dense but small and shallow punctures, producing fairly dense but very short pale depressed hairs. Abdomen with sparse punctures, and with sparse depressed hairs in the medial area and dense depressed hairs on lateral sides.

Male terminalia. Apex of median lobe pointed. Unspined region of internal sac about 1.2 times as long as spined region; spined region divided into two sections: ®rst section absent; second section slightly wider than third section, with dense simple large and long spines and sparse basally forked spines; third section slightly more than three times as long as second section, with mixture of dense basally forked spines, sparse simple large and long spines and multi-branched spines; a narrow area between second and third sections sparsely spined (®gure 14). Eighth sternite rounded at sides; setae present in mid-terminal area; very sparse microspines on ventral surface. Apex of eighth tergite distinctly processed.

Female. Unknown.

Biology Hosts unknown. Adult was collected in January.

Distribution North-eastern New South Wales (®gure 3).

Comments

This new species resembles A. furva sp. nov. but diOEers in having the area from vertex to frons curved and slightly convex; distance between lower lobes of eyes more than twice distance between antennal socket and lateral angle of post clypeus; nodules and lateral tubercles of the pronotum less developed; the apex of the elytron with a small tooth at the sutural angle.

Type material examined

HOLOTYPE ,, l New South Wales: River Xing , 1 mile W of Uralla, 10.January.1967, B. Cantrell, terminalia slide No. Allotisis m-920521-5 ( UQIC).