Nonymoides swezeyi Gressitt, 1942, new species
Creators: name: Gressitt, J. Linsley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nonymoides
Nonymoides swezeyi

description: 2. Nonymoides swezeyi, new species. Male: somewhat oval in outline, dorso-ventrally compressed and somewhat flattened above. Body reddish brown, darker in part, largely pale on appendages; head dull reddish brown, pitchy across middle of frons; antennae pale reddish testaceous, darker brown on extreme apices of basal segments and on distal halves of last five or six segments; pronotum light reddish brown with several small dark brown spots, sides of prothorax brownish black; elytra light reddish brown with small spots of darker reddish brown, mostly along costae and suture, deflexed portions dark reddish brown near base; ventral surfaces testaceous brown, with middle abdominal segments and central portion of metasternum largely dark brown; legs testaceous with preapical portions of femora, tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Body surfaces thinly clothed beneath with silvery buff hairs; dorsal surfaces somewhat irregularly clothed, with median and lateral pale stripes and dark spots in intervening areas, on pronotum, and narrow broken stripes of pale on elytral costae; front of head partly glabrous; antennae finely ciliate. * <b>Contribution from Lingnan Natural History Sui-vey and Museum, Lingnan University, Canton,</b> China. Head wider than deep, slightly constricted behind eyes, deeply punctured with intervening areas micropunctulate; frons nearly twice as wide as high, shallowly grooved along midline; vertex slightly concave; inferior eye lobes about as wide as deep, occupying three fourths space between antenna! insertions and bases of mandibles. Antennae one third again as long as body, finely tapering; scape elongate, subcylindrical, three fourths as long as third segment; fourth nearly as long as third and slightly longer than fifth and sixth combined. Prothorax not quite twice as broad as long, briefly spined at each side near base, each spine preceded by a feeble swelling; disk moderately plane, finely and closely punctured. Elytra gradually narrowed posteriorly; surface of each seriate-punctate on outer two fifths of dorsal disk, first costa separating two areas of irregular punctures. Sid&lt;,s of thorax finely punctured; abdomen impunctate. Length, 6 mm.; breadth, 2.4 mm. Female: dorsal surfaces dark reddish brown; elytra crossed by two irregular bands of whitish buff pubescence, one near base and other near apex. Length 4.8 mm.; breadth 1.8 mni: Paratype female: length, 6.4 mm.; breadth, 2.6 mm. Inarajan, May <i>7</i>, on <i>Citrus,</i> Swezey, holotype male; Upi Trail, May 5, Usinger, allotype female, paratopotype male and paratopotype female. Differs from <i>N. latior</i> Blair in having the frons and pronotum much more finely and closely punctured, the pronotal disk flatter, the sides of the prothorax more swollen before lateral tubercles, which are less prominent, and the elytra more finely punctured internally, and less regularly striate-punctate externally, the punctures close and irregular along middle. Named in honor of 0. H. Swezey, collector of part of the material, as a token of esteem and gratitude for the privilege of studying this collection. Type in collection of B. P. Bishop Museum.
description: Published as part of <i>Gressitt, J. Linsley, 1942, New Longicorn Beetles From Guam (Cerambycidae), pp. 61-64 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum</i> on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5159791