Malukandra hornabrooki 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
Malukandra
Malukandra hornabrooki

description: Malukandra hornabrooki sp. nov.   
(Fig. 20, 21, 79, 128, 129, 219, 262, 317, 366-368)  
 Parandra janus; Hüdepohl 1990: 50, fig. 2.   
 Etymology. Dedicated to Dr. Richard W. Hornabrook for his contributions in medicine and entomology, and for collecting part of the type series.   
 Type-material. Holotype M (ex Hüdepohl Collection), PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Eastern Highlands: Kainantu District, Onerunka, X. 20.1979, (ZSMC). Paratypes (5 M, 5 F), as follows: PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Eastern Highlands: Kainantu District, Onerunka, M, XII.24.1979, (MZSP); M, F, II.09.1980, (ZSMC); M, X.20.1979, (ZSMC); F, II.2.1980, (ZSMC); F, III.1980, (ZSMC); Okapa District, Okapa: M, VII.10.1964, R. Hornabrook coll. (CHKC); F, I.1968, R. Hornabrook coll. (MZSP); M, IX.1971, R. Hornabrook coll. (CHKC). Morobe: Aseki - Hokanaiwa (1600-1900m), F, II.14.1998, A. Riedel coll. (AWCO).   
 Description. Integument dark-brown; parts of head and mandibles, margins of pronotum, elytral suture and margins, and extreme apices of femora blackish.   
Male (Fig. 366). Head wide; dorsal surface finely, very sparsely punctate between eyes, gradually more abundant towards occiput, and coarser towards area behind eyes; area behind eyes coarsely, abundantly punctate; area between gibbosities and ocular carina without depression; ocular carina wide and clearly elevated, not bifurcated in “Y”. Eyes coarsely faceted; anterior ocular edge (Fig. 79) not emarginate. Central projection of labrum (Fig. 20) narrow and sub-acute. Submentum glabrous, depressed, coarse and sparsely punctate; margin close to mentum wide, elevated throughout extension. Mentum coarsely, abundantly punctate, with hair barely long and sparse. Mandibles (Fig. 128) sub-falciform, as long as head; inner margin with concavity at middle and one large tooth at apical third; punctures coarse and abundant; dorsal surface with transverse depression at base. Antennomere XI slightly acute at apex; dorsal sensorial area not divided by carina.  
Prothorax transverse, distinctly narrower at base than apex. Pronotum very finely, sparsely punctate at central area, gradually coarser and more abundant laterally; anterior edge sub-straight; anterior angles clearly projected forward; lateral angles rounded; posterior angles distinct, in right angle. Elytra finely, abundantly punctate towards suture, and coarser laterally; elytral carina absent. Metasternum finely, sparsely punctate, and coarser and more abundantly punctate close to metepisterna. Metepisterna coarsely, abundantly punctate. Metafemur (Fig. 367) short and elongated. Metatarsus (without claws) shorter than metatibia; metatarsomere V (Fig. 262) as long as I-III together.  
Female (Fig. 368). Central projection of labrum (Fig. 21) narrow and acute. Mandibles (Fig. 129) clearly shorter than head. Anterior margin of pronotum with central concavity clear. Antennae as in Fig. 219.  
 Variability. Integument brown. Males: apex of central projection of labrum rounded; mentum glabrous; mandibles not falciform; less concavity on inner margin of mandibles; antennomere XI clearly rounded at apex; anterior margin of pronotum convex; punctures of lateral of metasternum coarse or somewhat coarse, but not fine.   
 Dimensions in mm (M / F). Total length (including mandibles), 14.4-21.3/18.3-20.4; prothorax: length, 2.8-4.4/3.7-4.0; anterior width, 4.0-6.0/4.4-4.7; posterior width, 3.0-4.7/4.1-4.7; humeral width, 3.8-5.8/ 5.0-5.7; elytral length, 8.3-12.0/11.6-12.5.   
 Comments. The male of Malukandra hornabrooki differs from M. heterostyla by the distinct concavity of the mandibles, and by the punctures of the dorsal surface of the head and of the pronotum clearly finer. In M. heterostyla, the inner margin of the mandibles of the male are not concave, and the punctures of the head and pronotum are clearly coarser. Differs from M. jayawijayana by the punctures on the dorsal surface of the head, between the eyes, and of the elytra coarser, and by the ocular carina clearly elevated. In M. jayawijayana, the punctures on the dorsal surface of the head, between the eyes, are clearly coarser and the ocular carina is slightly elevated.   
 Hüdepohl (1990) in his study of the Cerambycidae from Philippines listed Parandra janus Bates, 1875 (= Komiyandra janus), as occurring in that country. Besides that species not occurring in the Philippines, Hüdepohl (1990) figured M. hornabrooki from Papua New Guinea as Bates’ species. Obviously Hüdepohl (1990) believed that he possessed and figured Bates’ species because the syntype female of Parandra janus was described from Papua New Guinea (see comments on K. janus). We examined the specimens from the collection of Hüdepohl.
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 pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485