Notomulciber decemmaculatus, Breuning, 1942

Hiremath, S. R., 2018, A new species of Notomulciber (Micromulciber) Aurivillius, 1913, from the southern Western Ghats of India (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Homonoeini), Zootaxa 4524 (4), pp. 440-452 : 450

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1B25A4E7-34DA-4D8E-A57E-7A7AF8147956

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5970409

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0221F-FF85-C72C-9C80-FA5C1643FF01

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Notomulciber decemmaculatus
status

 

Notes on N. decemmaculatus View in CoL and N. travancorensis

Notomulciber decemmaculatus View in CoL was described by Breuning (1942) based on a single specimen from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore comprising the present day central and south Kerala and Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu. There is no recent record of this species except for Nair et al. (1986), who reported it as a leaf feeder on Lagerstroemia microcarpa Wight (Lythraceae) View in CoL . Lingafelter et al. (2014) published photos of the holotype deposited in the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) Washington, D.C., United States. In the original description, Breuning (1942) mentions the presence of a short whitish band in the middle of the pronotal base. However, such band is not discernible on the photograph of the holotype .

Notomulciber travancorensis View in CoL was also described by Breuning (1958) based on a single specimen from Travancore. He provided a very brief description in French, which is translated verbatim as: “ Very close to decemmaculatus Breun. View in CoL , which shares the locality and which could form a morph, but the marginal angle of the elytral apex only slightly prominent and rounded (not stretched into lobe) and different ornamentation. Pronotum without whitish basal band. On each elytron, only four white circular spots: a small post-humeral, sublateral; a slightly larger sublateral postmedian; a very small just behind the second in the middle of the disc and a small lateral at the beginning of the apical quarter ”. However, the species was not illustrated in the original description. Photographs of the holotype ( Figs. 7–9 View FIGURES 1–9 ) held in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Paris, France are furnished here.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Notomulciber

Loc

Notomulciber decemmaculatus

Hiremath, S. R. 2018
2018
Loc

Notomulciber travancorensis

Breuning 1958
1958
Loc

Notomulciber decemmaculatus

Breuning 1942
1942
Loc

decemmaculatus Breun.

Breuning 1942
1942
Loc

Lagerstroemia microcarpa

Wight 1838
1838
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