Miccolamia panda Bi & Chen, 2025

Bi, Wen-Xuan, Chen, Chang-Chin & Lin, Mei-Ying, 2025, A revision of the genus Miccolamia Bates from China (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Desmiphorini), ZooKeys 1264, pp. 1-35 : 1-35

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1264.171283
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A473DF94-C56D-4CA8-A1DC-BBE7B96BE604
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17902679
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scientific name	Miccolamia panda Bi & Chen
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Miccolamia panda Bi & Chen sp. nov.

Figs 15 View Figures 13–24 , 16 View Figures 13–24 , 35 View Figures 25–43 , 58 View Figures 52–60 , Map 1 Chinese common name: 熊猫小沟胫天牛 View Map 1

Type material.

Holotype: • male, “ CHINA. Sichuan, Beichuan / Xiaozhaizigou, Xialiligou / 2,045 m, 2016. VIII. 14 / leg. Ying-Hui Li ” ( SNUC) . Paratypes ( 3 males, 1 female): 2 males, same locality as holotype “ 2016. VIII. 14 / leg. Ying-Hui Li ” ( CCCC) ; • 1 female, “ CHINA. Sichuan, Beichuan / Xiaozhaizigou, Dahuodi / 2,045 m, 2016. VIII. 16 / leg. Ying-Hui Li ” ( CCCC) ; • 1 male, “ CHINA. Sichuan, Beichuan / Piankou, Zhulingou / 1,713 m, 2017. VII. 10 / leg. Ying-Hui Li ” ( CCCC) .

Description.

Male (Fig. 15 View Figures 13–24 ). BL = 3.14–3.44, BW = 0.97–1.06 mm. Body and appendages mostly brown; antennomeres III – XI basally, apical margins of elytra, basal halves of tibiae and tarsi reddish brown; femora and ventral surface dark brown. Head sparsely covered with yellowish to tawny pubescence; antennae covered with fine brownish pubescence intermixed with very sparse yellowish hairs, the latter partially forming vague basal rings on antennomeres III – XI; pronotum clothed with intermixed brownish and yellowish pubescence, the yellowish hairs forming a narrow strip along the midline; scutellum covered with dense yellowish hairs on posterior half; elytra mostly covered with gray to yellowish pubescence, comparatively sparser on basal half, occasionally interrupted by a few small glabrous spots; disk with two transverse dark brown pubescent bands, of which a small band ~ 1 / 2 of humeral width occupying basal 1 / 6 and a broader one ~ 1 / 4 of elytral length situated slightly behind the midlength with a sinuate anterior margin, not reaching lateral margins; legs and ventral surface moderately covered with fine yellowish pubescence throughout.

Head slightly wider than pronotal anterior margin, shallowly concave between antennal tubercles; frons densely and finely punctate. Eyes deeply emarginated, upper and lower eye lobes connected by 1 row of ommatidia; lower eye lobe ~ 1.9 × as long as wide, 1.7 × as long as gena. Antennae moderately long and slender, subequal to body length; scape moderately clavate, densely and finely punctate and sculptured; antennomere III 0.9 × as long as IV, 1.2 × as long as scape, 1.3 × as long as antennomere V.

Pronotum subequal to the width across lateral tubercles, 1.4 × as long as basal width; moderately constricted at base, without distinct transverse grooves; lateral tubercles situated near basal 2 / 5, small with acute apices; disk strongly convex, densely finely punctate with interspersed large setigerous punctures mainly on basal half.

Elytra elongate, EL / EW = 2.1–2.2, EL / PL = 2.7–2.9, subparallel-sided on basal 1 / 3, distinctly dilated at apical 1 / 3, then convergent toward separately rounded apices; distinctly convex near apical 1 / 3 in lateral view (Fig. 35 View Figures 25–43 ); humeri broadly rounded; lacking subbasal tubercles but with pair of indistinct swellings in basal 1 / 5; disk coarsely punctate at basal half, partially forming longitudinal rows. Ventral surface with mesosternum and metaventrite densely finely rugose-punctate; elsewhere finely punctate. Legs moderately long and thick, metatibiae almost exceeding elytral apices; femora moderately thickened; tarsal claws appendiculate.

Male terminalia. Tergite VIII (Fig. 58 a View Figures 52–60 ) transverse, moderately emarginated apically with broadly rounded sides; apical margin bearing a few short fine setae. Tegmen (Fig. 58 b View Figures 52–60 ) with lateral lobe subparallel-sided toward subacute apex; bearing a few very long setae at apices and some short fine setae mainly on apical half ventrally. Median lobe (Fig. 58 c View Figures 52–60 ) moderately curved in lateral view; apex subacute.

Female (Fig. 16 View Figures 13–24 ). BL = 3.47 mm, BW = 1.09 mm. Almost identical to male in general appearance. Body slightly stouter and appendages relatively shorter. AL / BL = 1.0. EL / EW = 2.1.

Remarks.

This new species is most similar to M. coenosa and M. shennong by the general habitus, especially by the elytra lacking subbasal tubercles. However, it can be readily distinguished from them by the pronotum more elongate; elytra more strongly constricted at bases; pronotum and posterior portion of elytra strongly convex in lateral view (cf. Figs 33–35 View Figures 25–43 ); and elytral dark maculae with sharply defined edges.

Etymology.

The new species is named after Ailuropoda melanoleuca (the Giant Panda) for their shared bicolored appearance and partial geographic distribution overlap.

Distribution

(Map 1 View Map 1 ). China: Sichuan.