Epepeotes uncinatus uncinatus Gahan, 1888

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 uncinatus uncinatus Gahan, 1888

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Epepeotes uncinatus Gahan, 1888: 271. Type locality: Assam [India].

Epepeotes uncinatus v. salvazai Pic, 1925: 18. Type locality: Laos.

Pseudopsacothea lineata Pic, 1944: 14. Type locality: Annam [Vietnam].

Type material.

India. Lectotype, male (designated herein): 'Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Assam / 95·18[h]; Epepeotes / ♂ / Epepeotes uncinatus / (Type) Gahan [h]; NHMUK014596211'.

Non-type material.

47 specimens. India (28): India (1 female); India, Bowring collection (1 male 1 female); India Orient (1 male 1 female); N. India, Bowring collection (1 male); S. India kanara (1 female); Assam (3 males, 7 females); Cachar [Assam] (1 male); Cherra Poonjee [now Cherrapunji], E. I. C. (1 male); Darjeeling (1 male, 1 female); Gopaldhara (2 females); Lebong (1 female); Shilong (1 male, 2 females); Sikkim (1 female). Burma (6): Burma, Fry collection (1 male); Chin Hills (1 male, 1 female); Upper Burma, Nam Tamai Valley, 25. viii. 1938 (2 males, 1 female). Bangladesh (7): Silhet [now Sylhet], Bowring/Chevrolat collection (1 male); Silhet, Bowring collection (1 male, 1 female); Sehet [now Sylhet] (1 male, 1 female); Silhet, E. I. C (1 male); Silhet, Pascoe collection (1 female). Country unknown (6): Bowring-Chevrolat collection (1), locality label not present (1 female); Dharg, Bowring collection (1 male, 1 female); Silcurl (1 male, 1 female); locality label not present (1 female).

Comments.

One syntype was confirmed in the collection. Herein we designated it as the lectotype, which has been labeled with a red-framed circular printed label and a handwritten identification label, both marked with ‘Type’. This species is recorded in Bangladesh for the first time.

Figures

Figure 7. Habitus of Epepeotes spp. a-c Epepeotes vestigialis vestigialis Pascoe, 1866 d, e Epepeotes schlegelii Lansberge, 1884 f, g Epepeotes uncinatus lineatopunctatus Breuning, 1960 stat. Resurrected h, i Epepeotes uncinatus uncinatus Gahan, 1888, lectotype j Epepeotes uncinatus uncinatus m. salvazai Pic, 1925 a, d, h, j male c, e, f female.