Mimonemophas Breuning, 1961

Xie, Guanglin, Huang, Jianghua, Wang, Wenkai & Xiang, Lanbin, 2015, First record of the genus Mimonemophas Breuning (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Monochamini) from China with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4057 (4), pp. 595-600 : 595-596

Genus Mimonemophas Breuning, 1961

Mimonemophas Breuning, 1961: 309 .

Type species: Mimonemophas quadrifasciatus Breuning, 1961

Diagnosis. Body moderate-sized, black, with metallic luster. Head, pronotum, ventral surface and legs partially clothed with appressed, bright iridescent bluish scale-like pubescence. Antenna with basal two antennomeres and extreme base of 3rd antennomere clothed with bright iridescent bluish scale-like pubescence, and basal antennomeres fringed with sparse and short black hairs ventrally. Elytra densely and uniformly clothed with appressed bluish-green to bluish-white scale-like pubescence and thick, semirecumbent to erect, black bristle-like hairs, forming bands or spots.

Head finely punctate; frons wider than tall, slightly bulged; labrum emarginate anteriorly; eye coarsely faceted, with lower lobe taller than wide, longer than gena. Antenna slightly robust, distinctly longer than body; antennal tubercles moderately elevated; scape stout, thickened apically and with a complete apical cicatrix; 3rd antennomere distinctly longer than 4th, about 1.5 times as long as scape. Pronotum wider than long, with two distinct transverse grooves at anterior and posterior margin, respectively; lateral spine with basal swelling and apex tapering; disc with a distinct posteromedial callus. Elytra about 2 times as long as the width across humeri, with sides subparallel and apex broadly rounded; surface finely punctate with base granulate. Prosternal process narrow and arcuate, lower than procoxa; mesosternal process moderately tuberculate; procoxal cavity closed posteriorly, mesocoxal cavity open at side. Leg moderately long, femur slightly clavate, mesotibia with an oblique groove near external apex; claw divaricate.

Distribution. CHINA (Guangxi, Hubei), VIETNAM.

Remarks. According to the original description, Mimonemophas is similar to Paramelanauster Breuning and different from it by the elytra clothed with dense erect black hairs. However, Mimonemophas is more similar to Anoplophora Hope in appearance and shares many characters with it, such as scape with well-developed apical cicatrix, pronotum with large lateral spine and distinct posteromedial callus, mesosternal intercoxal process with a moderate projection and elytron with transverse pubescent bands or spots; furthermore, the head, ventral surface and legs are partially clothed with appressed bluish pubescence, a character which is also present in some species of Anoplophora such as A. davidis (Fairmaire, 1886) and A. elegans (Gahan, 1888) ; antennae without pubescent annulations beyond antennomere 3, a character which is also found in some Anoplophora species such as A. jianfenglingensis Hua, 1989 and A. granata Holzschuh, 1993 (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002) . However, the elytra densely clothed with thick black bristle-like hairs on non-pubescent region, shows the distinct difference with Anoplophora . In Anoplophora , the elytra glabrous or pubescent, if the hairs present, commonly thin and soft and scattered over the surface. Further morphological and molecular studies of Mimonemophas and Anoplophora are needed to determine their relationship.