Pseudodoliops eleagns apoensis, Barševskis, 2019

Barševskis, Arvīds, 2019, A new subspecies of Pseudodoliops eleagns (Heller, 1916) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Mindanao island, Philippines, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19 (1), pp. 57-63 : 57-63

Pseudodoliops eleagns apoensis ssp. n.

( Fig. 1 )

Typematerial. Holotype: Female: PHILIPPINES: Mindanao Isl. , Bukidnon, Mt. Apo, 03.2019. Localcollectorleg . [handwrited onwhitelabel]; HOLOTYPUS:/ Pseudodoliops / eleagns apoensis ssp. n., / A.Barševskisdescr. 2019 [handwritedonredlabel].

Paratypes: Male and female. PHILIPPINES: Mindanao Isl. , Bukidnon, Mt. Apo, 04.2019. Local collector leg. [handwrited on white label]; PARATYPUS: / Pseudodoliops / eleagns apoensis ssp. n., / A.Barševskis descr. 2019 [handwrited on red label].

Generaldistribution: Philippines; Mindanao island.

Description. Bodylength: 9.8 - 10.8 mm, bodywidth: 4.1 - 4.3 mm. Dorsalsurface of body black, with spots and bands of white and pink pubescence.

Head quadrangular, flattened, narrower than pronotum, with sparse punctures and fine dark pubescen ce on dor sal sur face. Widen ed antennomeres with punctures forming thin wrincles. Middle portion of head with elongate, wide band of pink pubescence. Eyes not extended, bilobate, flattened. Cheeks narrow, not extended, mostly covered by dense, pink pubescence. Clypeus dark-brown, narrow, shinny, covered by golden setae along apical mar gin. Labr um dar k-br own, with dar k pubescence. Mandibles massive, shiny, with acute apices, latero-basal portions of each mandible with golden pubescence and several dark setae. Maxillar and mandibular palpi dark, with yellow - brown apex. Antennae slender, relatively short, with black antennomeres. Antennomeres with fine dark pubescence, basal portion of antennomere 4 with dense, white pubescence, antennomeres 3 - 5 with long lateral setae.

Pronotum subcylindrical, transverse, basal and apical parts of pronotum emarginated with two thin, transverse, slightly curved lines. Portion of pronotum between apical and basal lines with coarse punctures. Lateral sides of pronotum rounded, without visible angles. Dorsal side of pronotum partly with fine, sparse, dark pubescence. Pronotum wider than head, and narrower than elytra. Sides of pronotum with two wide, circle-shaped spots composed of dense, pink pubescence, with smal basal spot of dense pink pubescence on dorsal surface.

Legs black, covered with black pubescence and many long setae. Tarsomeres with dense, black pubescence and setae, and with row of golden lateral setae.

Scutellum rounded apically, with dense pink tomentum. Pars stridens not visible under basal margiņ of pronotum.

Elytra elongated, black, with light bronze luster and with wide white transverse band in basal third portion, with dense, white pubescence. Dosrsal surface of elytra with coarse, dense punctures, distinctly coarser in basal portion of elytra. Lateral sides of elytra sligthly curved.

Underside of body with white pubescence.

Differential diagnosis. Based on the shape and proportions of the body, the new subspecies is similar to P. elegans schwarzeri Schultze, 1934 ( Fig. 2 ), but differs from it by the following characters: 1) only basal third of elytra with transverse white band, while elytra of P. elegans schwarzeri with two transverse white bands: one in basal third, and second in apical third; 2) a new subspecies having black legs,where as legs of P. elegans schwarzeri are red; 3) head and pronotum of a new subspecies with spots and bands of pink tomentum, while that in P. elegans schwarzeri are white.

Etymology. Toponymic. The name of species is derived from the name of mountain, where type specimens were collected.

Figures

Fig. 1. Holotype of Pseudodoliops eleagns apoensis ssp. n.

Fig. 2. Pseudodoliops elegans schwarzeri Schultze, 1934