Aphrodisium nikitai, Kuleshov, 2017

Kuleshov, DmitryA., 2017, A new species of the genus Aphrodisium Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Philippines, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 17 (1), pp. 15-17 : 15

Aphrodisium nikitai sp.n.

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Type material. Holotype: male: Philippines, Luzon Isl., Aurora prov., Sierra Madre Mt. 05.2014, local collector leg. Deposited in the author’s collection.

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Description. Body length 29.7 mm, max width 8.7 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum, legs and first antennal segment are brown without metallic tint. Elytra brown with weak dark green tint. Antennae light brown, densely covered with light bristles. Pro-, meso- and metathorax light brown. Abdomen and tarsi yellow.

First antennal segment with coarse wide but weak impressions. Antenomeres 3-10 densely covered with short golden setae. Frons with deep axial stripe and relatively sparse moderately regular punctuation, covered with short semiadjacent setae. Labrum smooth and yellow. Occiput with dense irregular shallow punctuation. Temples wrinkled.

Basal part of pronotum with weak wrinkles. Mesial part wrinkled with sparse impressions and dense yellow setae. Apical part of pronotum with deep sparse punctuation and thin outstanding bristles.

Elytra near scutellum with sparse deep punctuation, from shoulders to tips with dense irregular punctuation and light setae. Elytra along joint and near apex with sparse rounded punctuation.

Differential diagnosis. The new species is easily distinguishable from other congeners from the Philippines by dull, almost nonmetallic body and yellow abdomen. Pronotum is similar by shape to Aphrodisium semiignitum (Chevrolat, 1841) but has coarse wrinkles in apical part and is more densely covered by yellow setae.

Shigehiko Shiyake (Osaka, Japan) for the possibility to work with holotype specimens and Andrew McKorney (Vancouver, USA) for valuable comments and advises on the manuscript. Special thanks to Kirill Makarov (Moscow, Russia) for help in preparing photos.

Figures

Fig. 1-3. Aphrodisium nikitai sp.n.: 1 - dorsal view, 2 - lateral view, 3 - pronotum