Cleomenes katrinae, Barševska & Barševskis, 2020

Barševska, Zeltīte & Barševskis, Arvīds, 2020, Two New Taxa Of Cleomenes Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) From China And Vietnam, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 20 (1), pp. 65-69 : 67-68

Cleomenes katrinae sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPUS, male: Yên Bái, Vietnam / 4/2020 [white printed label] ; HOLOTYPUS: / Cleomenes / katrinae sp. nov. / Z.Barševska, A.Barševskis / desc. 2020 [red handwrited label] ( DUBC) .

PARATYPES, 2 males: Yên Bái, Vietnam /

5/2020 [white handwrited label]; HOLOTYPUS: / Cleomenes / katrinae sp. nov. / Z.Barševska, A.Barševskis / desc. 2020 [red handwrited label] ( DUBC).

General distribution: Vietnam.

Description. Body black, elongated, narrow, dorsal surface of elytra yellow, with three black longitudinal lines and apical spot. Length: 16.5- 18.0 mm, maximal width: 2.8-3.0 mm.

Head elongate, with convex eyes and extended antennal bases. Dorsal surface of head with coarse punctures, covered with very dense golden pubescence; longitudinal line between eyes missing. Labrum brown, slightly pubescent, shiny. Clypeus brown, transverse, with light luster. Mandibles dark brown, with darkened sharp apex, massive, curved, shiny, relatively short, with lateral pubescence. Cheeks with sparse pubescence. Antennae brown, thickened apically, covered with very fine punctures and sparse, fine pubescence. Antennae reaching almost apex of elytra.

Pronotum black, cylindrical, slightly impressed, emarginated with band of golden pubescence along entire length. Middle portion of pronotum with longitudinal line of golden pubescence divided into two parts. Pronotum convex in middle and distinctly thickened, with very dense and coarse punctation.

Scutellum small, with dense golden pubescence, with rounded apical margin. Pars stridens almost completely covered with pronotum.

Elytra almost parallel-sided, narrow, yellow, flattened dorsally, with keel-shaped, narrow sutural elevation and coarse punctation. Each elytron with three black longitudinal lines; middle line twice interrupted: in front of middle of elytra and apical spot of golden pubescence, emarginated with black band. Apex of elytra with two sharp extensions.

Ventral surface of body especially along the sides covered with dense golden pubescence. Legs yellow-brown, slightly shiny, covered with very fine pubescence. Tarsomeres yellow-brown, covered with yellow-brown pubescence.

Female unknown.

Differential diagnosis. Based on the shape of the body and the general character of the elytral pubescence, C. katrinae sp. nov. similar o C. longipennis Gressitt, 1951 (Fig. 4), from which it can be distinguished by the wider and less elongated golden pubescence on the pronotum and interrupted mediodorsal band on the elytra with emarginated spot of dense pubescence on the apex of the elytra.

Etymology. This species is named after our daughter Katrīna Barševska (Daugavpils, Latvia).