Anipocregyes wakabayashii Yamasako & Makihara

Yamasako, Junsuke & Makihara, Hiroshi, 2017, Review of the genus Anipocregyes Breuning, 1939 with two new species from Borneo (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini), Zootaxa 4250 (5), pp. 461-474 : 473

7. Anipocregyes wakabayashii Yamasako & Makihara , sp. nov.

( Figs 22–25, 27–28 , 62–68 )

Type locality. Malaysia, Sabah, near Keningau

Type series. Holotype ( EUMJ; Figs 22–23, 27 , 62–68 ): ♂, “N. BORNEO / 10 miles Nw of / Keningau / 16. V. 1984 / S. Nagai leg.”, “ N. Ohbayashi / Collection ” . Paratypes: 1♀ ( MZB; Figs 24–25, 28 ), Bukit Soeharto, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia, 15. X, 1998 , H. Makihara leg.; 1♂ 1♀ ( FFPRI), same locality and collector but 21. IX, 1998 ; 1♀ (Hefferen coll.), Mt. Trus Madi , Alt. ca. 1,500-2,000 m, Sabah, Malaysia, III-V, 1998 , Local coll.; 1♂ (Hefferen coll.), Tawau vic., Sabah, Malaysia, 3. IV, 2005 , Local coll.; 1♀ (Hefferen coll.), Pensiangan , Sabah, Malaysia, 20. III, 2010 , Local coll.

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to A. rondoni , but distinguishable from the latter by having several small black spots on the frons of head.

Description. Male ( Figs 22–23, 27 ; n = 2): LB = 11.5–12 mm, WB = 4.6–4.8 mm.

Body reddish dark brown. Head, pronotum, elytra, and femora with sparse long suberect pearl white or light brown setae; inferior side of antenna and tibiae with dense same setae. Head clothed with pearl white and golden pubescence; frons and occiput scattered with several spots of black pubescence. Antenna with scape, pedicel, and each basal part of antennomeres 3–11 with pearl white pubescence, and the reminders with brown pubescence. Pronotum clothed with white and golden pubescence, of which golden one forms indistinct maculae around discal tubercles. Elytra clothed with white pubescence, scattered with several small tufts of black short setae throughout, provided with small macula of golden pubescence behind each basal ridge, longitudinal macula of same pubescence extending and obliquely dilating from behind humeri toward apex on each lateral side, a pair of large rounded maculae of white pubescence near apex. Dominant part of ventral surface and legs clothed with pearl white and light brown pubescence.

Eye with LL/WL = 1.1–1.2, LL/LG = 1.5. Antenna 1.4 times as long as body; relative length of each segment as follows: 1.1: 0.2: 1.4: 1.4–1.5: 1.1: 0.9: 0.8–0.9: 0.8: 0.8: 0.7: 0.6. Pronotum with LP/WP = 0.8, LP/LB = 0.3, WP/WEH = 0.8, provided with coarse and sparse punctures on latero-dorsal side and basal half of disk; disk with three obtuse tubercles on middle, transversally depressed behind basal margin; lateral side with indistinct dull projection near apex. Elytra with LE/WEH = 1.5–1.6, LE/LB = 0.6, LE/LP = 2.3–2.5; disk with longitudinal obtuse ridge near each middle behind base, and several tubercles on base and basal ridge, entirely provided with coarse and sparse punctures which are distinct in basal part, then reduced apically and indistinct in apical half.

Male genitalia ( Figs 62–68 ; n = 2): tegmen slightly curved in lateral view. Paramere in dorsal view slightly shorter than the 1/3 length of tegmen, gently constricted in base, slightly curved in apical 2/3; ventral side with inwardly directed cylindroid projection behind base. Median lobe weakly curved in lateral view; median strut disjunct behind middle; ventral plate with apex roundly pointed. Endophallus subequal to the triple length of median lobe; PB relatively long; APH rudimental, with ED on dorsal side of distal 1/3. MSp sparsely distributed in proximal 2/3 of MT+CT. LSp distributed in distal 1/3 of MT+CT in latero-dorsal side. SSp densely covered entire part of PB.

Female ( Figs 24–25, 28 ; n = 3): LB = 2.5–2.7 mm, WB = 0.6 mm. Similar to male, but more rotund. Antenna 1.1–1.2 times as long as body; relative length of each segment as follows: 1.2: 0.2–0.3: 1.4: 1.5: 1.0: 0.9: 0.8: 0.8: 0.7–0.8: 0.7–0.8: 0.5.

Etymology. The name of this new species is dedicated to Mr. Hideki Wakabayashi, former first secretary of Japanese embassy to Indonesia, who generously supported the JICA research project and thus enabled the investigation of the entomological fauna as above.

Distribution. Borneo.

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 30. Habitus of Anipocregys spp. 16 – 17, 26, Anipocregys rondoni comb. nov.; 18 – 19, 29, A. albifrons nom. nov.; 20 – 21, 30, A. seminivea comb. nov.; 22 – 25, 27 – 28, A. wakabayashii sp. nov. (22 – 23, 27, holotype; 24 – 25, 28, paratype). 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, Dorsal view; 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, lateral view; 26 – 30, frontal view. 16 – 23, 26 – 27, 29 – 30, Male; 24 – 25, 28, female.

FIGURES 55 – 68. Male genitalia of Anipocregyes spp. 55 – 61, Anipocregyes rondoni comb. nov.; 62 – 68, A. wakabayashii sp. nov. 55, 62, Tegmen in dorsal view; 56, 63, ditto in lateral view; 57, 64, parameres in ventral view; 58, 65, median lobe in dorsal view; 59, 66, ditto in lateral view; 60, 67, the apex of median lobe in ventral view; 61, 68, median lobe with endophallus in lateral view. Scale: 1.0 mm.