Pseudodoliops ditumaboensis, Barševskis, 2018

Barševskis, Arvīds, 2018, A New Species Of The Genus Pseudodoliops Schultze, 1934 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) From The Philippines, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (2), pp. 281-283 : 282-283

Pseudodoliops ditumaboensis sp. n.

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Type material. Holotype: Female: PHILIPPINES: Luzon Isl. , Aurora, Ditumabo, 05.2018. Local collector leg. [printed on white label] ; HOLOTYPUS: Pseudodoliops ditumaboensis sp. n., A.Barševskis descr. 2018 [handwrited on red label].

General distribution: Philippines; Luzon Island.

slightly curved lines. Portion of pronotum between apical and basal lateral lines with coarse punctures. Lateral sides of pronotum rounded, without visible angles. Dorsal side of pronotum partly covered with fine sparse tomentum.

Legs bicolour: femora brown, apical part of femora, tibia and tarsus black. Brown portions of femora covered with brown fine tomentum, and black apical portions with black tomentum and several long, dark setae. Tibia covered with dense grey tomentum and sark dense setae in apical part. Description of holotype. Body length: 11.4 mm, body width: 4.5 mm. Dorsal surface bicolour: head, pronotum and basal part of elytra black, central and apical parts of elytra brown, covered with sparse white pubescence forming indistinct white band on the border with basal black part of elytra.

Head elongated, flattened, narrower than pronotum, dorsal surface of head with coarse punctures, reticulate microsculpture and fine dark and white tomentum, forming elongated fine line between eyes. Eyes not extended, bilobate, flattened. Cheeks narrow, not extended, covered with sparse white tomentum. Clypeus yellow, narrow, shiny, covered with golden-yellow pubescence. Labrum bicolour: basal part darkbrown, covered with dark pubescence, and apical part yellow, with yellow pubescence. Dark portion of labrum behind middle covered with transverse row of long dark setae. Mandibles massive, shiny, with acute apex, laterobasal part with pale tomentum and several dark setae. Maxillar and labial palps dark, with yellow-brown apex. Antennae slender, relatively short, with brown apical antennomeres, slightly darkened in apical portions; third antennomere bicolour: brown, with black apical part. Antennomeres covered with fine white sparse tomentum, antennomere 4 and basal part of antennomere 5 covered with dense white tomentum.

Pronotum transverse, wider than head and narrower than elytra, in basal and apical parts emarginated with two thin, transverse, parallel,

Tarsomeres covered with dense mixed grey and dark tomentum and setae.

Scutellum apically rounded, covered with sparse white tomentum. Pars stridens nod visible under basal margin of pronotum.

Elytra bicolour: brown, with wide black transverse band on basal part between shoulders, covered with white sparse pubescence. Elytra distinctly convex in basal and flattened in middle portions; lateral sides of elytra slightly curved. Border between black and brown portions with narrow obscure transverse band of white pubescence. Apical part elytra with white line slightly emargined apex. Dosrsal side of elytra on black transverse band with coarse, dense punctures, which distinctly smaller on brown parts of elytra

Ventral side of body covered with white pubescence.

photographs of the holotype and the laboratory assistance.

Figures

Fig.1.Holotype of Pseudodoliops ditumaboensis sp. n.