Megobaralipton Lepesme & Breuning, 1952, 1951

Majumder, Amitava, Drumont, Alain, Jákl, Stanislav, Tavakilian, Gérard, Manjunatha, Hasaholalu Boregowda & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the Prioninae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Mizoram State (India), with the first report of the genus Megobaralipton Lepesme & Breuning and new records from the country, Zootaxa 4963 (2), pp. 375-383 : 376

Megobaralipton Lepesme & Breuning, 1952

Megopis (Megobaralipton) Lepesme & Breuning, 1952: 140 .

Megobaralipton ; Komiya, 2002: 220 [designation, new rank]; Komiya & Drumont, 2014: 188, 197 [key to species]. Type-species: Aegosoma bicoloripes Ritsema, 1881 by subsequent designation by Komiya, 2002: 220.

Megobaralipton Lepesme & Breuning, 1952 , previously considered as a subgenus of Megopis Audinet-Serville, 1832 , was revised by Komiya (2002), who considered it as a genus and this generic position was followed and confirmed later on by Komiya & Drumont (2014).

Megobaralipton is mostly characterized by an elongated cylindrical body, head with robust and developed mandibles in males, each mandible furnished with two internal tooth; pronotum strongly convex, with lateral margins indistinct, and widest at posterior half; elytra elongated and generally parallel-sided with rounded apex (furnished with small sutural projection), and with two internal carinae, which start from base or humerus and meet each other at about ¼ of the length of elytra before apex (the inner most often absent); and by legs slender in both sexes ( Komiya 2002; Drumont et al. 2018b). The genus comprises seven species and five subspecies organized into three species groups: bicoloripes , lansbergei and mandibulare ( Komiya & Drumont 2014).

The geographic range of this genus corresponds approximately to that of Sundaland and partly extends to southeastern China, Laos, and Vietnam ( Komiya & Drumont 2014; Drumont et al. 2018a, b). In this work, we confirm the occurrence of Megobaralipton in India, based on a recent collection of the species M. kalimantanum ( Komiya & Makihara, 2001) in the Mizoram State. This discovery in India extends the geographic range of the genus to the western part of its distribution.