Eurypoda (Neoprion) batesi Gahan, 1894

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 : 379-381

Eurypoda (Neoprion) batesi Gahan, 1894

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Eurypoda Batesi Gahan, 1894: 225 .

Eurypoda (Neoprion) Batesi ; Lameere, 1904: 11; 1913: 36 [catalog]; 1919: 66; Hayashi, 1981: 36 [distribution]; Gressitt & Rondon, 1970: 16, fig. 3–g (male) [host plant]; Ohbayashi, 1992: 2 [key]; Ohbayashi et al., 1994: 270 [distribution]; Ohbayashi, 2007: 338, pl. 1, figs. 16 (male), 17 (female); An, 2019: 5, figs. 2 A–B (female) [distribution, host plant].

Eurypoda batesi ; Ohbayashi, 1964: 37 [distribution]; Li et al., 1981: 93 [Distribution]; Lim et al., 2014: 131 [host plant].

Eurypoda batesei ; Hua, 2002: 208 [catalog, host plant, misspelling].

Neoprion batesi ; Švácha & Lawrence, 2014: 137, figs, 2.4.20 C, 2.4.27 K (larve) [morphology].

Syntypes two males deposited in The Natural History Museum, London; ex collection Louis Villard> G. Lewis Type-locality: Japan (Honshu): Yamaguchiya .

Size: 19–40 mm.

Flying period previously recorded for the species: June–September.

Host Plants: Aphananthe aspera Planchon (Ulmaceae) , Castanopsis cuspidata (Thunberg) Schottky (Fagaceae) , Castanopsis cuspidata var. sieboldii Nakai (Fagaceae) , Castanopsis sp. (Fagaceae) , Cinnamomum camphora (Linné) J. Presl (Lauraceae) , Cinnamomum sp. (Lauraceae) , Cunninghamia lanceolata Hooker (Pinaceae) , Machilus thunbergii Siebold & Zuccarini (Lauraceae) , Quercus acutissima Carruthers (Fagaceae) , Quercus myrsinaefolia Blume (Fagaceae) , Shiia sp. (Fagaceae) .

Studied material: 1 male, 4 females, India: Mizoram / Lawnglai Dist. / Ngengpuikai vill. / Ngeng Pui N. R. / 120–350 m / 20.IV–9. V.2017 / Stanislav Jákl leg.

Distribution: China, India — new country record (Mizoram), Japan, Laos, Korean Peninsula, Thailand, Vietnam.

Comments: E. batesi was described from the Honshu ( Japan) and is now known from six countries belonging to the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Herein, we present the first record of the species for the Indian subcontinent with its collection in the Mizoram State, which extends its geographic range to the west, in the extreme eastern part of the Himalaya. Eurypoda (Neoprion) batesi represents the 3 rd species of Eurypoda recorded in India and the second one for the subgenus Neoprion ; the other species, E. (Neoprion) parandraeformis (Lacordaire, 1869) , has been recorded from the Andaman Islands ( Gahan 1906) and from Tamil Nadu State ( Kariyanna et al. 2017).