Apomecyna saltator (Fabricius, 1787)

Lin, Mei-Ying, Perissinotto, Renzo & Clennell, Lynette, 2021, Census of the longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae and Vesperidae) of the Macau SAR, China, ZooKeys 1049, pp. 79-161 : 79

Apomecyna saltator (Fabricius, 1787)

Fig. 28

Lamia saltator Fabricius, 1787: 141. TL: Unknown; TD: ZMUC.

Distribution.

Palaearctic Region: China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh); Pakistan; Nepal ( Yiu 2009; Lin and Yang 2019; Danilevsky 2020). Oriental Region: India; Laos; Vietnam ( Hua 2002; Kumawat et al. 2015).

Macau records.

Great Taipa, 29 Apr 2019, on mosquito trap, R Perissinotto & L Clennell (IZCAS); Coloane Village, 31 May 2020, under light in ablution block, R Perissinotto & Lynette Clennell; St. Francis Xavier’s Parish [Coloane], 9 Jun 2020 2:38, Kit Chang (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49012866); ibidem 12 Jun 2020 23:50, Kisu Wong (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55504513).

Remarks.

In Macau, adults have so far been recorded only in late spring and range in total length 10-12 mm and 3-4.5 mm in maximum width. In nearby Hong Kong, however, they have been observed throughout the summer and there larval food plants include Cucurbita moschata , Benincasa hispida , Luffa acutangula and Lagenaria siceraria ( Yiu 2009). Elsewhere, larvae have also been found boring into stems of Coccinia indica , Luffa aegyptiaca and Trichosanthes cucumerina ( Beeson 1941; Nair 1975; David and Ramamurthy 2012; Kumawat et al. 2015).

Figures

Figure 28. Apomecyna saltator (Fabricius, 1787): dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views of specimen observed at Coloane Village on 31 May 2020 (photographs: LC).