Anoplophora ankangensis Lin & Lingafelter 2018, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Lin, Mei-Ying
name: Lingafelter, Steven W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anoplophora
Anoplophora ankangensis

description: Anoplophora ankangensis (Chiang, 1981) comb. nov.
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Paranamera ankangensis Chiang, 1981: 82, 84, pl. 1, fig. 10. TL: China, Shaanxi. TD: NWAFU.
Paranamera ankangensis: Chiang et al., 1985: 134, pl. IX, fig. 152; Löbl & Smetana, 2010: 284; Lin, 2017: 338, pl. 29, fig. 8.
Diagnosis (Lin, 2017). This species is similar to Anoplophora elegans (Gahan, 1888) (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002: 77, pl. 8, fig. a) but without annular pubescence at the apex of each antennomere. It is similar to A. stanleyana Hope, 1839 (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002: 217, pl. 31, figs. d, e, f) and A. birmanica Hüdepohl, 1990 (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002: 80, pl. 10, fig. a), but the yellowish pubescent markings on the pronotum terminate near the middle prothoracic lateral tubercles and lack such yellow pubescence at the basal half. Compared with A. horsfieldii (Hope, 1842) (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002: 86, pl. 13, figs. a, b), the pronotal yellow pubescent markings are larger and only at the apical half, and the yellow elytral pubescent markings have five transverse lines instead of four.
Specimens examined. China: 1 female, paratype, Shaanxi, Ankang, host: Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch, 1960 (NWAFU, ex entomological collection of Shaanxi Forestrial Research Institute); 1 male, Shaanxi, Xunyang, 1981. VIII.27, leg. Fangfang She, Congde Lu (NWAFU, CO025460); 1 female, Shaanxi, Xunyang, 1981.VIII, leg. Congde Lu (NWAFU, CO027073); 1 female, Hunan, Hupingshan, Xiangbizigou, 2005. VII.20, leg. Zhao & Li (CBWX).
Distribution. China: Henan, Shaanxi, Hunan (new Province record).
Host plants (Chiang, 1981; Tavakilian & Chevillotte, 2018). Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch (Rosaceae).
Remarks. The holotype is a female from Shaanxi, Ankang, collected in 1960.VII and was deposited in Northwestern Agriculture college (Chiang, 1981). It should be deposited in NWAFU, but the first author did not find the holotype in the main collection of NWAFU during her visit in 2017. It could be in another collection hosted by the Agriculture College (personal communication with Lin Lü, 2017. III.30). Fortunately she found the paratype female, which is also from Shaanxi, Ankang (reported in the Chinese description but missing in the English summary by Chiang, 1981), which indicated that the entomological collection of Shaanxi Forestry Research Institute is deposited in NWAFU.
Specimen of Paranamera malaccensis Breuning, 1935 examined. Malaysia: 1 male, Sabah, Crocker Range, vic. Trus Madi, 2000. III.18, leg. Local collector (DJHC). Our examination of the type species of Paranamera Breuning, 1935, P. malaccensis Breuning, 1935, shows that it lacks the common features present in Anoplophora. It lacks a posteromedial pronotal callus (present in most Anoplophora and P. ankangensis Chiang, 1981), it has narrow-based lateral pronotal tubercles that are elevated apically (broad-based lateral pronotal tubercles that are not or very weakly elevated apically are present in most Anoplophora species and P. ankangensis), the scape is cylindrical with a reduced cicatrix and as long as the third antennomere (the scape is enlarged apically with a pronounced cicatrix and distinctly shorter than the third antennomere in Anoplophora and P. ankangensis), the sutural elytral apex is sub-spiniform or acute (rounded apically in Anoplophora and P. ankangensis), and the body is nearly uniformly covered in pubescence (distinct glabrous regions are present in Anoplophora species and P. ankangensis). One additional feature, a strongly emarginate labrum that is present in species of Paranamera (and mentioned in the original description of the genus by Breuning (1935), was the basis for placing P. ankangensis in that genus by Chiang (1981). In most Anoplophora the labrum is shallowly emarginate medially. However, this character is variable among and within species (Lingafelter & Hoebeke, 2002) and should not be used as a basis to exclude P. ankangensis from Anoplophora. Therefore, based on these features, Paranamera ankangensis Chiang, 1981 is transferred to Anoplophora as a new combination.
The genus Paranamera Breuning, 1935 now includes three species: P. malaccensis Breuning, 1935 (Malaysia, Malacca, Penang), P. excisa Breuning, 1942 (Indonesia, West Sumatra) and P. oculata Hüdepohl, 1994 (Myanmar, Tenasserim; Thailand, Pak, Chong). We consider that the species P. oculata Hüdepohl, 1994 may need to be transferred from this genus due to its different pronotum and elytral apices, however, we reserve that decision for future study.
description: Published as part of Lin, Mei-Ying & Lingafelter, Steven W., 2018, Taxonomic notes on Chinese Lamiini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), pp. 367-374 in Zootaxa 4482 (2) on pages 370-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1440652