Phlyctaenodes sordidus (Mckeown)

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 : 73-74

Phlyctaenodes sordidus (Mckeown)

( Figures 1 G, 1H, 1J, 4I –L)

Tessaromma sordida McKeown, 1940: 299 . TL: Queensland, Mt. Tamborine (AM, examined). Phlyctaenodes sordidus: Ślipiński & Escalona 2016: 238 .

Tessaromma truncatispina McKeown, 1940: 299 . TL: Queensland, Bunya Mountains (AM, examined). New Synonym. Phlyctaenodes truncatispinus: Ślipiński & Escalona 2016: 238 .

Description. Length 14–24 mm. Body integument yellowish brown to brown with elytra slightly lighter in apical half; entire dorsum covered by dense, golden setae forming wavy pattern, especially along elytral sides. Head with frontal area densely punctate, covered with adpressed golden setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly indicated, angulate medially; terminal maxillary palpomere ovoid in both sexes. Antenna in male extending 2 antennomeres beyond elytral apices, in female reaches elytral apices; scape relatively long, pedicel transverse; antennomere 3 shorter than scape, subequal to antennomere 4; both sexes antennomers 9–11 gradually shorter. Pronotum transverse, very densely punctate and setose; disc with two longitudinal admedian broadly separated tubercles; lateral edge with broad based sharp, posteriorly bent median projection. Scutellum convex with short setae. Elytra narrowly rounded to distinctly pointed apically; dorsum with three rows of sparse, shiny granules bearing bristles, additional smaller granules near lateral edges and apices; interspaces between granules very densely punctate and setose, feebly shiny. Legs. Femora not thickened apically, mid- and hind femora without dense setae. Male genitalia. Penis with two big sclerotized semicircular plates.

Types. “ Holotype | Mt. Tambourine , S.Q., 19 Dec 1925, A.Musgrave & G.P.Whitley | Tessaromma sordida McKeown | K53790 ” (AM); “ Holotype | Q., Bunya Mts., N. Geary, 5.1.1938 | Tessaromma truncatispina McKeown | Australian Museum K 289467” (AM).

Material examined (14, ANIC; 3, QM; 1, SAM; 1, RDKC). Queensland: 13km SW by W of Gordonvale; Mt. Glorious ; Goodnight Scrub NP., approx. 40km WSW of Childers ; Mt. Spec ; Kuranda; 9km SSW of Kuranda ; Yarraman, 2.2km SE Bunya Mtns. New South Wales: Upper Lansdowne escarpment below Comboyne Plateau. South Australia: Mt. Lofty .

Distribution (Fig. 6B). Rarely collected species, known from isolated localities in Queensland, NSW and South Australia.

Biological data. Several adults were reared from branches of Acradenia euodiiformis (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley [ RUTACEAE ] collected on the Upper Lansdowne escarpment (ANIC).

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.