Caraphia lepturoides babai Makihara, 1982

Ohbayashi, Nobuo, Lin, Mei-Ying & Yamasako, Junsuke, 2016, Revision of the Caraphiini, New Tribe (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), Zootaxa 4084 (2), pp. 187-217 : 198

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scientific name	Caraphia lepturoides babai Makihara, 1982
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11-2. Caraphia lepturoides babai Makihara, 1982 View in CoL

( Figs 34 View FIGURES 23 – 36 , 124 View FIGURES 122 – 127 )

Caraphia babai Makihara, 1982: 127 View in CoL , figs. 3, 5-D (Type locality: Takeda, Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu, Japan); Hayashi & Villiers, 1985: 24, 25, 26.

Caraphia lepturoides babai: N. Ohbayashi, 1992: 5 View in CoL , figs. 11-13; N. Ohbayashi, 2007: 389, pl. 14, fig. 2; Chou & N. Ohbayashi, 2008: 140.

Diagnosis. Male: BL= 9.9–11.6 mm; EW= 2.6–3.1 mm. Body mostly dark reddish brown. Close to the nominotypical subspecies, but can be distinguished by the shape of pronotum which is widest at middle instead of at base. Male genitalia ( Fig. 124 View FIGURES 122 – 127 ) very similar to the nominotypical subspecies except for more or less shorter basal struts of median lobe.

Female: BL= 12.2 mm; EW= 3.2 mm.

Material examined. Is. Ishigaki-jima: 1♂, Mt. Banna, 29-VI-1985, T. Itô leg. ( EUMJ); 2 ♂♂, same locality, reared and emerged on 11-V-1989, K. Mori leg. ( EUMJ); 1♂, 1♀, Sanwa, 12-IV-2013, T. Miyamoto leg. ( PCST); 1♂, same locality, 30-III-2 0 13, A. Toba leg. ( PCST).

Distribution. Japan (Is. Ishigaki-jima, Okinawa Pref.).

Remarks. This subspecies was first described as an independent species by Makihara (1982), but the differences from C. lepturoides are slight and it is appropriate to treat the taxon as a subspecies.