Lemula (Pseudolemula) tichyi, Ohbayashi & Chou, 2019

Ohbayashi, Nobuo & Chou, Wen-I, 2019, Revision of the genus Lemula (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), Zootaxa 4671 (4), pp. 451-499 : 491

29. Lemula (Pseudolemula) tichyi sp. nov.

(Figs. XIII-29, XIV-29)

Description. Female: BL= 8.0– 8.2 mm, EW = 2.5–2.6 mm. Head reddish brown with darkened vertex (holotype) or V-shaped blackish maculae on vertex (paratype); pronotum brown to reddish brown; antennae mostly dark brown though each base of antennomeres III to VI (holotype) or antennomere VIII (paratype) lighter; scutellum dark brown; elytra pale yellowish brown and basal area besides suture more or less darker; ventral side with pro-, meso- and metasterna, abdominal ventrites I–III dark brown (holotype) or pale yellowish brown (paratype); legs with femora mostly reddish brown except for blackish apices; tibiae and tarsi mostly blackish brown. Head and pronotum moderately furnished with randomly directed recumbent pale hairs; elytra evenly provided with subrecumbent bristle-like whitish hairs; metasternum and abdominal ventrites provided with feeble whitish hairs which are getting denser laterally; each femur rather densely furnished with long whitish hairs.

Head as wide as pronotal base; clypeus and frons moderately covered with fine punctures; vertex densely covered with moderate punctures, of which each periphery is carinate; temples behind eyes roundly narrowed to neck; antennae reaching (holotype) or not reaching (paratype) middle of elytra; relative lengths of antennomeres from base to apex as follows: 21: 9: 23: 12: 23: 20: 21: 17: 17: 16: 23 (holotype) or 22: 8: 20: 18: 26: 22: 22: 18: 18: 16: 22 (paratype).

Pronotum widest at base, 0.86 (holotype) or 0.89 (paratype) times as long as basal width, widened from apical margin toward obtuse lateral tubercles and weakly constricted at basal fourth; base 1.1 times wider than width across lateral tubercles, 1.5 times wider than apex; disk densely punctured with medial longitudinal depression; apex and base narrowly marginate.

Elytra longer than twice humeral width (EL/EW = 2.25), weakly widened toward apical fifth; lateral rim of each elytron indistinct; disk rather densely punctured.

Legs with hind tarsi long, 0.82 times as long as hind tibiae, relative lengths of tarsomere I: II: III: V = 30: 17: 12: 31.

Male: Unknown.

Etymology. Species name is dedicated to Mr. Tomáš Tichý who offered us these interesting specimens.

Type series. Holotype ( CTT): ♀, Baotianman (1ξ曼), 1,300–1,400 m, Funishan, N Neixiang, Henan, China, 10–12-V-2015, T. Tichý leg.

Paratype: [ China]: 1♀, Jiuzhaigou (^寨ƭ), Sichuan, 15–18-VI-2011, E. Kucera leg.

Distribution. China (Henan, Sichuan).

Ecology. Flight period: May–June.

Remarks. This species unambiguously belongs to the subgenus Pseudolemula by its shape of pronotum and long hind tarsi, and is easy to distinguish from L. (Pseudolemula) viridipennis by its body color. However we could examine only two female specimens designated as the holotype and a paratype, and they show some slight differences from each other, especially the proportion of antennae. Therefore further material should be studied.