Microplocia medinai, Barševskis, 2024

Barševskis, Arvīds, 2024, On The Genus Microplocia Heller, 1924 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) Of The Philippines, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 24 (1), pp. 129-132 : 130-131

Microplocia medinai sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 )

Type material. HOLOTYPUS: Male. Label data: Philippines: Luzon Isl., / Tapsoy, Nagtipunan , / Quirino, 03.2018. / local collector leg. [handwritten]; // Holotypus: / Microplocia / medinai sp. nov. / A.Barševskis det. 2024 [red label, handwritten].The type specimen is damaged, it’s parts are glued to the paper card. The genitalia could not be dissected.

General distribution: Philippines: Luzon Island.

Description. Body dark brown, dorsal surface with spots of white dense pubescence. Length: 4.0 mm, maximal width: 1.2 mm.

Head quadrangular, flattened, transverse, withs lightly convex eyes. Dorsal surface of head shiny, with coarse punctures and pubescence, middle portion between antennal bases with wide impression. Antennal bases wide, extended. Labrum pubescent, covered with numerous long setae. Clypeus dark-brown, transverse, covered with setae. Cheeks convex, with pubescence. Antennae brown, covered with sparse pubescence; basal antennomere elongate, dark, with dense pubescence; antennomere 2 relatively short, widened apically, dark; antennomere 3-6 elongate, yellow; remaining antennomeres darkened, with pubescence; inner margin of antennomeres with long, dark bristles.

Pronotum dark-brown, subcylindrical, shiny, with very coarse punctures. Basal angles of pronotum indistinct. Apical margin of pronotum widely impressed; basal margin slightly concave, with very narrow transverse impression. Dorsal disc of pronotum at basal portion in the middle with narrow elongate band of silver-grey pubescence. Pronotum of holotype in right frontal portion damaged. Scutellum small, elongate, widely rounded apically, with dense silver-grey pubescence.

130 Elytra parallel-sided, shiny, dark-brown. Each elytron with seven small spots of white pubescence. Two round spots obliquely

On the Genus Microplocia Heller, 1924 ( Coleoptera : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae ) of the Philippines located relative to base of elytra and located behind shoulders. Each elytron with additional longitudinally striped spot near suture and with two round spots located perpendicular to elytral suture. Each apical part of elytron with two small elongate spots: one closer to the suture and other near lateral margin. Elytral apex rounded.

Ventral surface of body shiny, covered with pubescence.

Forelegs brown with paler tarsomeres. Middle and hind legs dark brown, with paler tarsomeres. Legs covered with silvery-gray pubescence. Hind femora strongly thickened.

Figures

Figure 1. Holotype of Microplocia medinai sp. nov. Photo: A. Anichtchenko.