Papuandra rothschildi Santos-Silva & Heffern & Matsuda 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Heffern, Daniel
name: Matsuda, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Papuandra
Papuandra rothschildi

description: Papuandra rothschildi sp. nov.   
(Fig. 9, 10, 91, 151, 152, 231, 274, 331, 400-402)  
 Etymology. The name honors Lionel Walter Rothschild, a British zoologist and collector.   
 Type material. Holotype M (ex. Collection Rothschild; ex. Collection Oberthür), PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Morobe: Mount Alexander to Mount Nisbet, I.1896, Anthony coll. (MNHN). Paratypes (1 M, 1 F), as follows: PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Morobe: F, same data as holotype (MNHN); Aseki, M, II.18.1999, native collector (KMCT).   
 Description. Integument shining, brown; parts of head and mandibles, margins of pronotum and scutellum, and elytral suture, blackish.   
Male (Fig. 400). Dorsal surface of head, on gibbosities, with punctures fine and somewhat abundant; central area, between gibbosities and occiput, with punctures coarser and sparser than on gibbosities; gibbosities separated by moderately deep furrow, with a punctiform depression near clypeus; area between gibbosities and ocular carina depressed; ocular carina elevated, without bifurcation in “Y” near posterior edge of eyes; area behind eyes coarsely and sparsely punctate. Eyes (Fig. 91) narrow; posterior ocular edge (Fig. 400) distinct. Central area of clypeus oblique. Central area of labrum distinctly tumid and with tuberculiform process frontally; central projection of labrum (Fig. 9) wide and rounded at apex, distinctly lowered. Submentum barely depressed, sparsely, shallowly punctate and transversely striated; pilosity very short and sparse; anterior margin moderately narrow and elevated. Mandibles (Fig. 151) sub-falciform; inner margin with two teeth together protracted; dorsal carina narrow and clearly elevated. Ventral sensorial area of antennomeres III-XI (Fig. 231) visible from side (mainly in distal antennomeres) and divided by carina.  
Pronotum somewhat finely, sparsely punctate on central area, and distinctly coarser and more abundant laterally; anterior edge slightly sinuous centrally; anterior angles clearly projected forward. Elytra abundantly and coarsely punctate on basal 3/4, mainly laterally, and finer on apical fourth; each elytron with two carinae. Metasternum and metepisterna glabrous, with punctures coarse and abundant (laterally on metasternum). Metafemur (Fig. 401) short. Dorsal face of metatibia flat, more distinctly on apical half. Metatarsomere V (without claws) as long as I-III together (Fig. 274).  
Female (Fig. 402). Labrum (Fig. 10) as in male, with central projection narrower. Mandibles as in Fig. 152. Punctation of head, pronotum finer; punctation of elytra as in male.  
 Variability. Integument brown to dark-brown.   
 Dimensions in mm (M / F). Total length (including mandibles), 21.5-21.7/19.7; prothorax: length, 4.7- 4.8/4.1; anterior width, 5.8-5.9/4.6; posterior width, 4.9-5.0/4.6; humeral width, 6.0-6.1/5.6; elytral length, 12.5-12.7/12.8.   
 Comments. Papuandra rothschildi is similar in general appearance to P. weigeli Mainly, it differs by the ventral sensorial area of antennomeres III-XI divided by carina (without carina in P. weigeli). From P. araucariae it differs, notably, by dorsal carina of mandibles strongly elevated (distinctly lower in P. araucariae).
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Heffern, Daniel & Matsuda, Kiyoshi, 2010, Revision of Hawaiian, Australasian, Oriental, and Japanese Parandrinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1-120 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (130) on page 69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485