Hechinoschema Thomson, 1857

Bi, Wen-Xuan, Mu, Chen & Lin, Mei-Ying, 2024, Taxonomic studies on the genera Echinovelleda Breuning, 1936 and Propedicellus Huang, Huang & Liu, 2020 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Lamiini), Zootaxa 5399 (1), pp. 65-78 : 76

Hechinoschema Thomson, 1857

Hechinoschema Thomson, 1857: 181 .

Type species: Hechinoschema spinosum Thomson, 1857 , by monotypy.

Distribution. Bangladesh, China (new country record), India.

Remarks. This genus currently contains a single species, i.e. Hechinoschema spinosum Thomson, 1857 . It resembles some species of Echinovelleda due to the armed elytral appearance. However it can be recognized by the pedicel not projecting on inner side, pronotal discal calli highly reduced, almost imperceptible, elytral main tubercles, especially those ones on the sutural rows and middle rows, are almost regular in shape, number and position, and subsymmetrical along the suture (cf. Fig. 1 ), and elytral pubescent patterns consist of single type of pubescence.

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FIGURES 1–8. Habitus of Hechinoschema sp. and Echinovelleda spp. 1, Hechinoschema spinosum Thomson, 1857 from Gongshan, Yunnan, China; 2, Echinovelleda guoliangi (Huang, Huang & Liu, 2020) from Malipo, Yunnan, China; 3, E. vitalisi (Pic, 1925) from Lvchun, Yunnan, China; 4, E. qiului (Huang, Huang & Liu, 2020) from Jinxiu, Guangxi, China; 5, E. yanziae Bi & Chen, 2021 from Nanling, Guangdong, China; 6, E. inermis Bi & Chen, 2021 from Hupingshan, Hunan, China; 7, E. c. chinensis Breuning, 1936 from Jinfoshan, Chongqing, China; 8, E. c. dichromata Bi, 2018 from Fanjinshan, Guizhou, China. 1, 5, female; 2–4, 6–8, male. 5, holotype from Bi & Chen (2021); 6, paratype from Bi & Chen (2021); 8, paratype from Bi (2018).