Epepeotes lateralis ( Guerin-Menevilie , 1831)

Xie, Guanglin, Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Wang, Wenkai, 2023, The collection of the genus Epepeotes Pascoe, 1866 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 1184, pp. 19-39 : 19

Epepeotes lateralis ( Guerin-Menevilie, 1831)

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Monochamus lateralis Guérin-Ménevilie, 1831: 113. Type locality: unknown.

Leprodera spinosa Thomson, 1857: 179. Type locality: Java [Indonesia].

Epepeotes meridianus Pascoe, 1866: 302. Type locality: Java, Sumatra, Tondano [Indonesia]; Sarawak [Malaysia], Singapore.

Epepeotes lateralis : Aurivillius 1922: 79.

Epepeotes lateralis var. niasica Aurivillius, 1923: 452. Type locality: Nias [Indonesia].

Epepeotes spinosus m. bimaculatus Breuning, 1943: 225. Type locality: Java [Indonesia].

Type material.

Indonesia. Syntype of Epepeotes meridianus Pascoe, 1866, male: 'Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Java [h, label oval, dark green]; Epepeotes / Epepeotes meridianus / type Pasc. [h]; Epepeotes / Epepeotes meridianus / Java P [h]; NHMUK014596276 [p]'.

Non-type material.

72 specimens. Indonesia (31): Nias (2 males, 2 females); Java (7 males, 10 females); Sumatra (3 males, 3 females); Borneo (1 male, 3 females). Malaysia (25): Sarawak (12 males, 8 females); Penang (1 male); Perak (2 females); Siamess Malay states (1 male); Malay states (1 female). Singapore (3): Singapore (2 males, 1 female). Country unknown (13): G. Bryant collection (6): Maling (4 males, 2 females), Bowring-Chevrolat collection (4): locality label not present (2 males, 1 female); locality unreadable (1 female). E. I. C. (1): locality label not present (1 male). locality label not present (2 females).

Comments.

There is a specimen from Bowring-Chevrolate collection labeled with a handwritten “Type” label [Fig. 3c, d ]: ' Euoplia / Th / Leprodera spinosa / Th type’. ‘Th’ should be the abbreviation of ‘Thomson’. However, the genus Euoplia was erected by Hope (1839), and Thomson (1857) published this species with the name of ' Leprodera spinosa ', and the type specimens are deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Obviously, this is a labelling error by a curator and it is not the type specimen.

Figures

Figure 3. Habitus of Epepeotes spp. a-e Epepeotes lateralis (Guerin-Meneville, 1831) f-h Epepeotes ambigenus ambigenus (Chevrolat, 1841) a, b syntype of Epepeotes meridianus Pascoe, 1866 f, g holotype a, c, h male e, f female.