Pseudoplites hamali Jin &amp; Keyzer &amp; Hutchinson &amp; Pang &amp; Ślipiński 2020, comb. nov.
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
Pseudoplites
Pseudoplites hamali

description: <i>Pseudoplites hamali</i> (Lameere, 1903) comb. nov. (Figs. 13 A–C, 14L, 15O, 17E) <i>Cnemoplites</i> (<i>Cnemoplites</i>) <i>hamali</i> Lameere, 1903a: 43. TL: (probably) Queensland, Australia. Holotype in IRSN (examined). <i>Macrotoma</i> (<i>Pseudoplites</i>) <i>inexpectata</i> Lameere, 1916: 233. syn. nov. TL: Victoria, Australia. Lectotype in MNHN (examined). <i>Pseudoplites inexpectatus</i>: Quentin and Villiers, 1981: 393. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>Pseudoplites hamali</i> is morphologically similar to species of <i>Geoffmonteithia</i>, <i>Eurynassa</i> and some species of <i>Cnemoplites</i>. It can be separated from <i>G. queenslanda</i> by having distinct lateral spines on protibia and distinctly longer prosternal process extending well beyond procoxae. It is distinguished from all <i>Eurynassa</i> species by having elongate antennomere 3. <i>Pseudoplites hamali</i> can be separated from <i>Cnemoplites</i> species by having shiny, smooth area on the centre of pronotum. <b> <i>Types</i>.</b> <i>Cnemoplites</i> (<i>Cnemoplites</i>) <i>hamali</i> Lameere, Holotype female deposited in IRSN, with the following labels “Cbenoplites hamali Lamee., Type <b>&amp;female;</b> | hamali Lameere ex. coll. de Moffarts ”. <i>Macrotoma</i> (<i>Pseudoplites</i>) <i>inexpectata</i> Lameere, Lectotype male deposited in MNHN, with the following labels “ Macrotoma inexoectata, A. Lameere vid. 1916 | TYPE| Victoria | Pseudoplites inexpectatus Lam. Lectotype <b>&amp;male;</b>, Quentin and Villiers det. 1979”. <i>Material examined</i> (Fig. 17E). <b>Queensland: AM</b> (3 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>; 3 <b>&amp;female;&amp;female;</b>): Byfield, Dec. 1975, F.T. Fricke; Cairns; Kuranda, May 1971, R.A. Faragher; Kuranda, Nov. 1969, R.A. Faragher; L.M.P.; [no data]; <b>ANIC</b> (7 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>): 2: Smithfield, Cairns, Feb. 2014, J. Hasenpusch; 2: 14km ENE Heathlands, Nov. 1993, P. Zborowski and M. Horak; Bucasia, Nov. 2005, K.J. Sandery; Crystal Falls, Paluma, Jan. 1968, R. Dorson; Smithfield, Cairns, Jan. 2014, N. Laird; <b>MV</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>; 1 <b>&amp;female;</b>): Cooktown; [no data]; <b>QM</b> (2 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>; 1 <b>&amp;female;</b>): Cape Hillsborough, Jan. 1979; 2: Fraser Island, Dec. 1979, K.J. Lambkin; <b>QVMAG</b> (2 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>; 3 <b>&amp;female;&amp;female;</b>): 2: Maroochy River Resort, Maroochydore, Dec. 2014, S. Fearn; 2: Rowes Bay, Townsville, Nov. 2000, S. Fearn; School Road, Buderim, Dec. 2014, S. Fearn; <b>RDKC</b> (3 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b> 4 <b>&amp;female;&amp;female;</b>): 3: Cairns, {from Jan. 2015 to Jan. 2016}, N. Laird; 2: Smithfield, Cairns, Jan. 2014, N. Laird; Bald Hills Stn. Nr. Cookton, Dec. 1986, M.S. Moulds; Bloomfield, Dec. 2015, S. Lamond. <b> <i>Molecular data</i>.</b> BioSample ID: SAMN12650112, SAMN12650113, SAMN12650114, SAMN11080877. <b> <i>Notes</i>.</b> Our examination of both female types found them being morphologically identical and distinguished from <i>Cnemoplites</i> females by the following characters: antennomere 3 long, about 1.5 times of antennal scape and twice as long as antennomere 4; tarsi surface very rough, covered with spines and dense nodules; the whole body more or less flattened dorsally.
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 71-72, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3776678
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