Epepeotes uncinatus lineatopunctatus Breuning, 1960, stat. resurrected

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 lineatopunctatus Breuning, 1960, stat. resurrected

Fig. 7f, g

Epepeotes uncinatus lineatopunctatus Breuning, 1960: 29. Type locality: Travancore [India].

Epepeotes uncinatus m. Epepeotes lineatopunctatus Breuning, 1961: 325.

Non-type material.

12 specimens. India (12): Nilgiri Hills (4 males); S. India (1 male, 6 females); Upper Assam (1 male).

Comments.

A female specimen from South India (Fig. 7f, g ) was mislabeled with a red-framed circular printed type label in the collection, which represents actually a subspecies of E. uncinatus Gahan, 1888, not the type specimen. Breuning (1960) described the subspecies Epepeotes uncinatus lineatopunctatus , then he (1961) regarded it as a morph of E. uncinatus Gahan. However, this subspecies is distinctly different from the nominate subspecies by the elytron mostly with conspicuous, short, longitudinal black spots, rather than rounded to oblong spots, which are almost united into a long longitudinal strip along the suture, the vertex and pronotum with more expanded median longitudinal strip. On this basis, herein we restore it to subspecies-level status.

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.