Oberea brevithorax Gressitt, 1936

Li, Zhu, Cuccodoro, Giulio & Chen, Li, 2017, Some taxonomic notes on the genus Oberea Dejean, 1835 from Asia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), ZooKeys 647, pp. 121-136 : 128

Oberea brevithorax Gressitt, 1936 Fig. 9

Oberea brevithorax Gressitt, 1936: 108. Type locality: China, Taiwan.

Oberea brevithorax inepta Gressitt, 1939b: 122. Type locality: China, Fujian.

Oberea binotaticollis v. brevithorax : Breuning 1962: 193.

Oberea binotaticollis v. inepta : Breuning 1962: 193.

Oberea brevithorax : Kurihara and Ohbayashi 2007: 211.

Type material examined.

Oberea brevithorax inepta Gressitt: Holotype, ♂, Cha Shan, Kien-ning District, Fukien Province, SE. China, VI. 22-28. 1933. D. C. Ngu coll. (SYSU).

Additional material examined.

China, Zhejiang: 1♂, Zhejiang province, Lin’an city, West Tianmushan, Dajingwu, 30°22'18.86"N, 119°26'03.81"E, 828m, 9-11. VII.2012, leg. Jianyue Qiu and Hao Xu (SWU); Vietnam, 1♂, Chapa, Tonkin, J. Clemont coll. (MHNG); 1 ♂, Chapa, Tonkin (MHNG).

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Hainan, Zhejiang, Taiwan); Vietnam (new record).

Remarks.

Oberea brevithorax was first described as a valid species by Gressitt in 1936 but was downgraded as a variety of Oberea binotaticollis Pic, 1915 by Breuning in his revision. Kurihara and Ohbayashi (2007) compared them and confirmed that they were two different species, easily distinguished from each other by different body proportions, antennal lengths, and male genitalia. The species was only recorded in China but recently, some specimens collected in Tonkin, Vietnam, were found in MHNG, and they are a new record to Vietnam.