Trichohoplorana dureli Breuning, 1961

Huang, Gui-Qiang, Liu, Dong-Shuo & Xiong, Rong-Chuan, 2023, A revision of the genus Trichohoplorana Breuning, 1961 (Arthropoda, Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini), ZooKeys 1160, pp. 191-205 : 191

Trichohoplorana dureli Breuning, 1961

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Trichohoplorana dureli Breuning, 1961: 548 (type locality: "Pedong, Sikkim, India"); Breuning 1963: 534 (catalogue); Breuning 1978: 49 (redescription), pl. IV, fig. 15 (holotype); Löbl and Smetana 2010: 213 (catalogue).

Ostedes dureli : Breuning and Heyrovský 1961: 143.

Mimipochira sikkimensis Breuning, 1982: 26 (type locality: "Sikkim, India"). Syn. nov.

Ipochiromima sikkimensis : Sama and Sudre 2009: 384 (catalogue); Löbl and Smetana 2010: 209 (catalogue).

Type material examined.

Trichohoplorana dureli Breuning, 1961: holotype, ♂ (MNHN), Pedong, Sikkim, India, 1914, L. Durel leg., [examined from a photograph (Fig. 1A )]; Mimipochira sikkimensis Breuning, 1982: holotype, ♂ (MNHN), Sikkim, India [examined from three photographs (Fig. 1B-D )].

Distribution.

Bhutan, India (Sikkim).

Remarks.

The differences between T. dureli and I. sikkimensis (Fig. 1A-C ) mainly reflect in the shape of the elytral brown spots: the large spots near elytral middle, at apical third, and at apex. They are actually intraspecific differences; thus, we treat I. sikkimensis as a junior synonym of T. dureli .

Figures

Figure 1. Types of Trichohoplorana spp. A Trichohoplorana dureli, holotype, male habitus, dorsal view (photo by Andreas Weigel) B-D Mimipochira sikkimensis B holotype, male habitus, dorsal view C holotype, male habitus, lateral view D labels (photos by Xavier Gouverneur) E Trichohoplorana juglandis, holotype, male habitus, dorsal view (photo reproduced from Holzschuh 1989) F Trichohoplorana mutica, holotype, male habitus, dorsal view (photo reproduced from Holzschuh 1990) G, H Trichohoplorana tenuipes G holotype, male habitus, dorsal view H paratype, female habitus, dorsal view (photos provided by Holzschuh) I, J Acanthocinus shirakii: I holotype, male habitus, dorsal view J labels (photos reproduced from Huang et al. 2015).