Olethrius tyrannus subsp. tyrannus tyrannus Thomson 1861
Creators: name: Jin, Mengjie
name: Keyzer, Roger De
name: Hutchinson, Paul
name: Pang, Hong
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Olethrius
Olethrius tyrannus
Olethrius tyrannus tyrannus thomson, 1861

description: <i>Olethrius tyrannus tyrannus</i> Thomson, 1861 (Figs. 12 C–D, H, K) <i>Olethrius tyrannus</i> Thomson, 1861: 316. TL: New Hebrides (Vanuatu Island). Lectotype in MNHN (examined). <i>Olethrius brevicornis</i> Dillon et Dillon, 1952: 7. TL: Fiji Island. Holotype in BISHOP (not examined). Synonymised by Vitali 2008. <i>Olethrius torresianus</i> Hayashi, 1960: 1. TL: Vanuatu Island. Holotype in OMNH (not examined). Synonymised by Vitali 2008. <i>Olethrius scabripennis</i> (Thomson): Dillon and Dillon, 1952: 7, misidentified. <i>Stenodontes</i> (<i>Olethrius</i>) <i>tyrannus</i> (Thomson): Lameere 1903b. <i>Olethrius tyranus</i> (Thomson): Hayashi 1961, misspelling. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>O. tyrannus tyrannus</i> can be recognised by the elytra surface with fine sparse punctures entirely, bearing short recumbent fine yellowish white pubescence. <i>Type</i>. <i>Olethrius tyrannus</i> Thomson, Lectotype male in MNHN, with the following labels “ Olethrius Thoms. E. 316 | tyrannus Thoms. Type, N. iles Hebrides | Museum Paris Coll. J. Thomson 1952 | Th. TYPE”. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> <b>Vanuatu: ANIC</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>): S. Bule, Efate, Jul. 2004; <b>OAI</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>): Banks Island, 1914, Allen. <b>Locality?: OAI</b> (1 <b>&amp;female;</b>): “Port Sunlight, Lever Bros, 4.5.09/ ex W.W. Froggatt Collection ”. <b> <i>Remarks</i>.</b> The specimen from OAI from the W. Froggatt collection bears labels similar to the specimens of <i>O. t. salomonum</i> collected from the Lever Bros plantations in the Solomon Islands but that locality does not agree with its known distribution and is here treated as doubtful.
description: Published as part of <i>Jin, Mengjie, Keyzer, Roger De, Hutchinson, Paul, Pang, Hong &amp; Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, A Review Of The Australian Macrotomini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae), pp. 33-96 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1)</i> on pages 69-70, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3776678
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