Amamiclytus nobuoi akusekianus Niisato, 2005

Niisato, Tatsuya & Han, Chang-do, 2011, A revision of the genus Amamiclytus Ohbayashi from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 118, pp. 19-52 : 30

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.118.1165

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Amamiclytus nobuoi akusekianus Niisato, 2005
status

 

Amamiclytus nobuoi akusekianus Niisato, 2005 Fig. 8

Amamiclytus nobuoi akusekianus Niisato 2005: 383, figs 1a, b, 2b, d, f; type locality: Akuseki-jima Is., Tokara Isls., N. Ryukyus, Kagoshima Pref., Japan.

Description.

Differentiated from the nominotypical subspecies from Amami-Ôshima Is. by the following features: 1) antennae and legs yellowish brown, instead of chocolate brown; 2) legs shorter, with hind femora not reaching elytral apices even in ♂; 3) tergite 8 gently arcuate at apical margin instead of transversely truncate; 4) median lobe longer and more slender, with apical part narrowed in straight line to the extremity and well exposed in ventral view.

Specimens examined.

1♂ (holotype) (NMNS), 1♀ (paratype), Akuseki-jima Is., Tokara Isls., N. Ryukyus, Kagoshima Pref., Japan, host collected on 16~17 –II– 1986, emerged out on 5 –VII– 1986, K. Mori leg.; 1♂ (paratype), same data as the preceding but on 12 –VI– 1986; 1♂ (paratype), same locality as the holotype, emerged on 5 –VI– 1987.

Geographical distribution.

Tokara Isls. (Akuseki-jima Is.), Ryukyus, Japan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Amamiclytus