Polyphida mindanaoana Barševskis, Cabras & Medina, 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Barševskis, ArvÓds
name: Cabras, Analyn Anzano
name: Medina, Milton Norman Dejadena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Polyphida
Polyphida mindanaoana

description: Polyphida mindanaoana sp. nov.   
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 Type specimens: Holotype, male: Philippines: Mindanao, / Lanao del Sur, Wao, / 08.2014, local collector leg. / [handwritten]; // HOLOTYPUS:/ Polyphida / mindanaoana sp. nov. / A. Bar š evskis, A.A. Cabras, / M.N.D. Medina descr. 2022 [red label, handwritten] (DUBC).   
 Paratypes:   
1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Surigao del Sur, / San Miguel, 10.2014, / local collector leg./ [handwritten].  
 1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Davao del Sur, Mt. Talomo, / 27.04.2019. D. Krasnopolska leg. 2 females: Philippines: Mindanao, / Davao del Sur, Mt. Talomo, / 26.– 27.04.2019.A. Bar š evskis leg.   
1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Bukidnon, Intavas, / 27.04.2019. local collector leg.  
1 male, 1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Bukidnon, Dominorog, / Mt. Kalatungan, 27.04.2019. / local collector leg.  
1 male: Philippines: Mindanao, / Agusan del Sur, Borbon, / 08.2018. local collector leg. descr. 2022 [red label, handwritten].  
2 females: Philippines: Mindanao, / Agusan del Sur, Borbon, / 11.2018. local collector leg.  
1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Lanao del Sur, Wao, /01.2020. local collector leg.  
1 male, 1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Lanao del Sur, Wao, /07.2018. local collector leg.  
3 males: Philippines: Mindanao, / Lanao del Sur, Wao, / 10.2016. local collector leg.  
1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Lanao del Sur, Wao, / 06.2018. local collector leg.  
1 male: Philippines: Mindanao, / North Cotabato, Alamada, Dado, 04.2020. local collector leg.  
1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Surigao del Sur, San Miguel, / 10.2014. local collector leg.  
 1 female: Philippines: Mindanao, / Zamboanga del Norte, Gutallac, / 11.2014. local collector leg. All paratypes with additional red handwritten label: PARATYPUS:/ Polyphida / mindanaoana sp. nov. / A. Bar š evskis, A.A. Cabras, M.N.D. Medina descr. 2022. All paratypes deposited in DUBC.   
 Additional material examined: Philippines: Mindanao, Agusan del Sur, Borbon, 10.2016 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Agusan del Sur, Esperanza, 09.2018 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Agusan del Sur, San Luis, 03.2018 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Bukidnon, Dominorog, Mt. Kalatungan, 12.2018 (1, local collector leg.); 01.2019 (1, local collector leg.), 04. 2020 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Bukidnon, Intavas, 07.2016 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Bukidnon, Panamokan, 09.2014 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Davao del Sur, Mt. Talomo, 24.04.2021 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao, Lanao del Sur, Wao, 11.2014 (5, local collector leg.), 12.2016 (1, local collector leg.), 06.2018 (1, local collector leg.).   
 General distribution: Philippines: Mindanao island.   
 Description. Black, scape dark­brown or reddish­brown, elytra bronze, pubescence silvery grey. Body length: 10.0–16.0 mm.   
Head with sparse, short pubescence and several long, erect hairs. Frons with coarse punctation between eyes; furrow between antennal tubercles visible, wide. Cheeks slightly extended, covered with fine pubescence.Antennae longer than apex of elytra, unicolor dark, with fine, silvery grey pubescence, ventral surface sparsely setose till antennomere 6. Labrum transverse, narrow, frontal margin with row of yellow brown setae.  
Pronotum slightly elongate, subcylindric, with fine basal and apical margins; lateral sides very slightly constricted after second third and before apical margin: opaque, densely and finely punctate, with silver­grey pubescence. Middle portion of pronotal disc with sparse punctation or without punctures, with long or short and smooth midline. In some specimens this midline may be rudimentary or very indistinct.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, ArvÓds, Cabras, Analyn Anzano & Medina, Milton Norman Dejadena, 2022, To the knowledge of the genus Polyphida Pascoe, 1861 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Philippines, pp. 403-411 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on pages 406-407, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203930