Uracanthus quadristriolatus Thongphak & Wang 2007, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Thongphak, Duangrat
name: Wang, Qiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Uracanthus
Uracanthus quadristriolatus

description: Uracanthus quadristriolatus, sp. nov.   
(Figs 32, 70, 100)  
 Description   
 Male. Body length, 30.00 mm; width, 5.49 mm.   
 Colour (Fig. 32). Body dark reddish brown, with head, thorax and basal elytra darker. Head with dense, long, pale orange pubescence; vertex with a large and long longitudinal triangular hairless mark. Pronotum with 2 wide, clearly defined stripes of very dense pale orange pubescence on each side: 1 on disc and 1 near ventral side; the remaining pronotum hairless. Each elytron with 3 small basal glabrous marks: 1 on shoulder, largest, 1 between shoulder and suture, smallest and narrowest, and 1 at suture, rest of elytra covered with uniformly dense short pale yellow pubescence.   
 Head. Postclypeus triangular and convex, finely punctate, and sparsely pubescence; frontoclypeal suture wide and deep in middle; distance between lower lobes of eyes 1.75 × as long as distance between upper lobe of eyes; distance between upper lobes of eyes 1.0 × as long as distance between eyes on ventral side; genal length 0.53 × as long as head width immediately below eyes. Antennae shorter than body, covered with uniform short pubescence; antennal segment 3 cylindrical, segments 4 to 10 flattened, slightly produced on one side at apex.   
 Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum 1.42 × as long as width, with a small rounded process at each side; posterior margin wider than anterior margin; disc binodulose near middle area; disc and sides heavily rugose transversely throughout. Scutellum semicircular, with sparse pubescence. Elytra 4.27 × as long as prothorax and 3.94 × as long as shoulder; basal elytra sparsely punctate; apex bispinose with spine at suture shorter than that at margin. Abdomen with dense short pubescence, apex of terminal sternite truncate with a shallow notch.   
 Male terminalia. Apex of ventral median lobe pointed; dorsal median lobe rounded, ventral lobe longer than dorsal lobe. Spined region of internal sac more than 4 × as long as basal unspined regions; spined region divided into two sections: first section with mixture of dense large and long simple spines, fairly dense multibranched spines and dense scale-like processes; second section with dense long simple spines, becoming sparser towards the end of this section (Fig. 70a). Eighth sternite obliquely truncate at sides, apex widely emarginate with fairly dense setae; ventral surface with sparse cloud-like processes (Fig. 70b). Eighth tergite almost truncate at sides, slightly emarginate at apex with long and short setae, with dense simple spines and multi-brancheds spine in mid and basal area (Fig. 70c). Paramere 2.2 × as long as wide, cylindrical in shape, apex rounded with long dense setae (Fig. 70d).   
 Female. Body length, 23.98–27.09 mm; width, 4.34–4.69 mm.   
Similar to males but antennae and legs distinctly shorter; body broader with robust abdomen; elytra slightly longer and wider, 3.97–4.19 × as long as shoulder width and 4.02–4.28 × as long as prothorax.  
 Ovipositor and spermatheca. Ovipositor relatively long; styli arising terminally with short hairs (Fig. 70e). Spermatheca curved; spermathecal gland arising at base (Fig. 70f).   
 Distribution Northeastern New South Wales and northern Queensland (Fig. 100).   
 Biology Hosts are unknown. Specimens were collected November.   
 Comments   
 This species resembles to U. fuscocinereus but differs in having the elytra covered with a uniform dense pale yellowish pubescence; middle area of pronotal disc without hair; the base of each elytron with only 3 glabrous marks.   
 Material examined   
 Holotype. ♂. NSW: Dorrigo Natural Park, xi.1971, MV light, R. Hardie; bearing a red holotype label (ANIC).   
 Paratypes. 2 ♀. NSW: 1 ♀, Armidale, C. F. Deuquet (AM). QLD: 1 ♀, Black Mt., 2m N Kuranoa, N QLD, 4.xi.1976, at light, J. G. Brooks (ANIC).
description: Published as part of Thongphak, Duangrat & 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) on pages 33-34