Lamprobityle mindanaoense, Barševskis & Jäger, 2014

Barševskis, Arvīds & Jäger, Olaf, 2014, Type specimens of the genera Doliops Waterhouse, 1841 and Lamprobityle Heller, 1923 (stat. nov.) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and description of two new species deposited in Senckenberg Natural History collections Dresden, Germany, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 14 (1), pp. 7-19 : 7-19

Lamprobityle mindanaoense sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype: Male. Philippines: Mindanao, Surig., Surigao, coll. W.Schultze. [ Doliops mindanensis Schultze [nomen nudum ]]. Deposited in SMTD.

Description. Body black, flattened, with rugosae surface, with white scalish tomentum and with light metallic luster. Length: 8.1 mm, width: 3.6 mm.

Head small, parallel-sided, with white scalish tomentum in frontal part between eyes and antennal bases. Labrum covered with numerous setae. Head black, finely punctate and shiny. Antennae of type specimen damaged. Basal segments of antennae black, and pubescent, with slight luster. Prothorax cylindrical, pubescent, with slight luster, along the edges more pubescent. Dorsal disc of pronotum shiny, slightly tomentose, with sparse punctures. Scutellum triangular, with rounded angles, tomentose, in basal part with white scalish tomentum. Elytra elongate, black, rugose, with visible luster and white scalish tomentum, which make irregular, misty spots in basal, central and apical parts. Between these spots there are black, mat areas with a visible light lustre. Elytra on the sides with protruding shoulder bumps. Elytra behind shoulders slightly impressed, without raised nodules between the shoulder and the scutellum. Green spots encircle otherwise black shoulders. Width of elytra at shoulders: 4.1 mm. Largest width of elytra behind middle: 4.5 mm. Elytra finely punctate. Anteriorly with sparse and coarse punctuation and pubescence. Meso-, metaepimera and sternites with spots at their sides. Legs black, with slight metallic luster, covered by sparse pubescence, denser on tibiae, which are broadened and flattened apically. Foretibia flattened, with sharp external margin. Tarsi short and broad. Surface of tarsomeres covered with pubescence. Tibia and tarsi apically covered with numerous setae.

Distribution: Philippines: Mindanao Isl.

Differential diagnosis. This new species differs from the others by the characteristic pattern of the body surface. Similar to L. mariae Vives, 2009 from N Luzon, but differs by shape of elytra.

Etymology. The name mindanaoense refers to the type locality, Island Mindanao.

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Fig. 2. Lamprobityle mindanaoense spec. nov. (A – dorsal view, B – lateral view, C – labels)