Uracanthus suturalis Lea 1916
Creators: name: Thongphak, Duangrat
name: Wang, Qiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Uracanthus
Uracanthus suturalis

description: <i>Uracanthus suturalis</i> Lea, 1916 (Figs 56, 113) <i>Uracanthus suturalis</i> Lea, 1916: 380.— McKeown, 1947: 66. <i>Description</i> <i>Male. Body length</i> 19.14–21.60 mm; <i>width,</i> 3.83–4.34 mm. <i>Colour</i> (Fig. 56). Body blackish brown, with head, thorax and basal elytra almost back. Head with fairly dense white pubescence. Pronotal disc covered with dense white pubescence, with 5 glabrous areas: 4 more or less round spots (2 on each side) and 1 longitudinal stripe (on middle line) starting from posterior margin and extending to posterior 1/3; each side of pronotum with a wide longitudinal stripe of very dense white pubescence near ventral side, and a wide longitudinal glabrous area between pubescent disc and pubescent stripe near ventral side. each elytron with 6–7 very narrow longitudinal lines of white pubescence interspaced with glabrous longitudinal lines on disc, and a wide longitudinal stripe of dense white pubescence on margin. <i>Head.</i> Postclypeus semicircular or subtriangular, slightly convex, with densely fine punctures; frontoclypeal suture deep and narrow in middle; distance between lower lobes of eyes 1.60–1.87 × as long as distance between upper lobes of eyes; distance between upper lobes of eyes 1.45–1.53 × as long as distance between eyes on ventral side; genal length 0.31–0.33 × as long as head width immediately below eyes; ventral side of head with transverse wrinkles. Antennae slightly longer than body; segments 4–10 flattened and strongly produced on one side at apex. <i>Thorax and abdomen</i>. Pronotum 1.02–1.06 × as long as width, conical process at side; posterior margin 1.25–1.32 × as wide as anterior margin; pronotal disc with 4 weakly raised and glabrous nodules; pronotal disc smooth with transverse rugae near posterior margin; side strongly rugose transversely. Scutellum semicircular, with dense pubescence. Elytra 4.45–4.88 × as long as prothorax and 3.63–3.67 × as long as shoulder width; elytron finely punctate toward apex; apex with an acute spine at suture. <i>Male terminalia</i>. Unknown. The unique type specimen was not dissected. <i>Female.</i> Unknown <i>Distribution</i> Southern South Australia, and southern Western Australia (Fig. 113). <i>Biology</i> Hosts are unknown. Adults were collected in October. <i>Comments</i> This species resembles <i>U. ater</i> but differs in having the elytral apex with an acute spine at the suture and the elytra with clearly defined longitudinal lines of white pubescence. <i>Material examined</i> <i>Holotype</i>. ♂. <b>SA:</b> Murat Bay (32º07'S, 133º37'E), E. A. King, Coll. no. I. 5692, bearing a type label and a species name label on which 'TYPE' was written in red (SAM). <i>Other material examined</i>. <b>WA:</b> 1 ♂, 9 km NW of Mt. Ragged (33º27'S, 123º28'E), Junana Rock, 26.x.1977, no abdomen, J. F. Lawrence (ANIC).
description: Published as part of <i>Thongphak, Duangrat &amp; Wang, Qiao, 2007, Taxonomic revision of the longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Uracanthini) from Australia., pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 1569 (1569)</i> on page 73
description: {"references": ["Lea, A. M. (1916) Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera with descriptions of new species, Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 40, 272 - 436.", "McKeown, K. C. (1947) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Australia. Memoirs of the Australia Museum, 10, 1 - 190."]}