Lemula (s. str.) formosana, Ohbayashi & Chou, 2019

Ohbayashi, Nobuo & Chou, Wen-I, 2019, Revision of the genus Lemula (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), Zootaxa 4671 (4), pp. 451-499 : 474-475

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:10ECF144-9157-46E0-941B-E45A609900FF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C35DC6F-EB7B-FFA6-FF76-4497FF63FC72

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scientific name

Lemula (s. str.) formosana
status

subsp. nov.

14. Lemula (s. str.) formosana View in CoL aenea subsp. nov.

(Figs. VIII-14, XI-14)

Lemula coerulea: Hayashi, 1994: 59 View in CoL , pl. 5, fig. 1. (nec Gressitt)

Description. Male: BL = 6.1–7.5 mm. Head, antennae, pronotum and legs similar in color with nominotypical subspecies. Elytral color variable, predominantly bronzy but sometimes golden brown, blue green, or metallic blue. Ventral surface with meso- and metasterna metallic green to bluish green; abdominal ventrites orange yellow though usually I or I–II decorated with dark brown patches near lateral base.

It is also possible to distinguish from the nominotypical subspecies by relatively short antennae which do not reach apical third of elytra, more or less denser pronotal punctures, and larger and coarser elytral punctures. Elytra shorter than twice humeral width (EL/EW = 1.95); space between punctures narrower than punctures themselves.

Endophallus (Type C). Almost same as nominotypical subspecies.

Female: BL = 6.0– 8.4 mm. EL/EW = 1.94.

Etymology. The subspecies name, ' aenea ' is derived from the bronzy elytral color.

Type series. Holotype ( NMNS): ♂, Bilushenmu (ƚ綠 ṈƗ), Xioulin, Township, Hualien County, Taiwan, 7-V- 1997, W.-I Chou leg. (G-1066).

Paratypes: [ Taiwan]: Same locality as the holotype. Bilushenmu (ƚ綠 ṈƗ), Xioulin Township , Hualien County [1♂, 1♀, 14-V-1977, T. Niisato & H. Fujita leg.; 1♀, 13-V-1978, M. Kuboki leg.; 3♂♂, 1♀, 1-VI-1978, M. Itô leg. (G-839); 3♂♂, 1♀, 3-IV-1994, W.-I Chou leg. (G-846); 2♂♂, 7-IV-1994, W.-I Chou leg.; 1♂, 28-V- 1995, W.-I Chou leg. (G-844); 1♂, 18-IV-1996, W.-I Chou leg.; 3♂♂, 1♀, 3-IV-1997, W.-I Chou leg.; 2♂♂, 1♀, 7-V-1997, W.-I Chou leg. (G-1067); 2♀♀, 31-V-1998, W.-I Chou leg.; 1♂, 1♀, 28-III-1999, W.-I Chou leg.; 1♂, 3-V-1999, W.-I Chou leg. (G-1068); 6♂♂, 3♀♀, 2,200 m, 10-V-2003, Y.-L. Lin leg. ( CCH); 1♂, 1♀, 12-IV-2015, W.-I Chou leg.] .

Distribution. Taiwan (Hualien).

Ecology. Flight period: March–May. Flower records: Acer , Prunus , Sycopsis .

Remarks. Hayashi (1994) recorded L. coerulea from Bilushenmu, Taiwan. Regrettably, we could not access the specimens recorded in this paper (1♂, 1♀ in Nara collection), but according to the characteristics mentioned in his redescription, it does not coincide with L. coerulea and recognized as a misidentification of this new subspecies.

This new subspecies seems to have a restricted distribution in high altitude area in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. Up to now, it has been collected only from Bilushenmu area of Hualien County at altitudes ca. 2,200 – 2,300 m.

NMNS

National Museum of Natural Science

ṈƗ

Nagao Institute

CCH

University of Arizona South, Agricultural Extension Service

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Lemula

Loc

Lemula (s. str.) formosana

Ohbayashi, Nobuo & Chou, Wen-I 2019
2019
Loc

Lemula coerulea: Hayashi, 1994: 59

Hayashi, M. 1994: 59
1994
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