Escalonia, Jin & Ślipiński & Keyzer & Pang, 2017

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 : 80-81

Key to the species of Escalonia

1 Elytra emarginate at apex, elytral costa 1 oblique and connected to costa 2 ( Fig. 5A ); pronotal disc with a distinctive gravel shaped dark brown marking on basomedial raised areas..................................... E. loxleyae (McKeown)

- Elytra more or less truncate at apex, never emarginate, elytral costae different; pronotal disc without a well-defined dark brown marking on basomedial raised areas....................................................................... 2

2 Elytra with obvious brown longitudinal stripes on weak costae, interrupted by oblique yellow stripe near middle ( Fig. 5 G); pronotum bicoloured........................................................New Guinea E. intricata (Gressitt)

- Elytral costae not in contrastive colour, only subparallel ridges; pronotum unicolour; Australia........................ 3

3 Head darker than pale yellow pronotum; elytra as in Figure 5 D; dorsal surfaces smooth between punctures, strongly shiny........................................................................................ E. surprise sp. nov.

- Head and pronotum brown; elytra as in Figure 5 F; dorsal surfaces reticulate between punctures, feebly shiny................................................................................................... E. carolinae sp. nov

Figures

FIGURE 5. A – C, I – L: Escalonia loxleyae (McKeown); J: median lobe, K: tegmen, I: sternite VIII, L: tergite VIII. D – E: Escalonia surprise sp. nov. (Holotype, ANIC); F: Escalonia carolinae sp. nov. (Holotype, ANIC); G – H: Zoedia intricata Gressitt (Holotype, BPBM).