Phlyctaenodes Newman, 1840

Jin, Mengjie, Ślipiński, Adam, Keyzer, Roger De & Pang, Hong, 2017, Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini), Zootaxa 4277 (1), pp. 67-85 : 69

Phlyctaenodes Newman

( Figures 1A –J, 2D–G, 4A–L)

Phlyctaenodes Newman, 1840: 20 . Type species by monotypy, Phlyctaenodes pustulosa Newman, 1840 . Trachelorachys Hope, 1841: 51 . Type species by original designation, Stenochorus fumicolor Hope, 1841 (= Phlyctaenodes pustulosus Newman, 1840 ).

Demacidia Thomson, 1861: 246 . Type species by monotypy, Demacidia brunnea Thomson, 1861 (= Phlyctaenodes pustulosus Newman, 1840 ).

Description. Length 11–30 mm. Body slender, light to dark brown with shiny granules on elytra; dorsal vestiture double with dense adpressed setae and sparse bristles. Head subquadrate moderately strongly inclined; frontoclypeal suture well visible; terminal maxillary palpomere expanded in males of some species. Eyes large, coarsely facetted, distinctly emarginate, lower lobe very close to mandibular articulations. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform; antennomere 3 subequal or longer than antennomere 4. Prothorax with acute lateral projections; disc with paired nodules or pointed tubercles. Prosternal process narrow, blade-like not expanded apically. Mesocoxae distinctly separated; mesoventral process broad and meeting metaventrite. Elytra rounded or pointed apically; disc with granules bearing bristles or setae. Legs have procoxae without transverse plates; femora at most weakly clavate, rarely with reduced setose brushes; protibia simple with two apical spurs.

Remarks. Both P. pustulatus and P. pustulosus differ from the remaining species included here by having the prothorax with a sharp and narrow based lateral spine and paired dorsal projections. The remaining species, here treated as Phlyctaenodes , may eventually be transferred to an existing or new genus pending the revision of the world genera of the Phlyctaenodini .

Figures

FIGURE 1. A – C: Phlyctaenodes pustulatus (Hope), A: female, B: male, C: head and prothorax, lateral. D – F, I: Phlyctaenodes pustulosus Newman, D: female, E: male, F: head and prothorax, lateral, I: prothorax, ventral. G, H, J: Phlyctaenodes sordidus (McKeown), G, H: male, J: head and prothorax, lateral.