Lemula par Holzschuh 1998
Creators: name: Ohbayashi, Nobuo
name: Chou, Wen-I
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Lemula
Lemula par

description: 20. Lemula (s. str.) par Holzschuh, 1998
(Figs. X-20, XII-20, XVI-16)
Lemula par Holzschuh, 1998: 6, fig. 3. Type locality: Yulongshan, Beishui, Lijiang county, Yunnan, China.
Diagnosis. Male: BL = 6.8 mm. EL/EW = 1.92. Head and pronotum metallic dark blue green; antennae with scape metallic yellowish green and rest dark brown; elytra shiny light blue; ventral surface dark bluish green and abdominal ventrites I to IV black, and V light yellow. Head with labrum and clypeus with long pale hairs, vertex and temples sparsely covered with feeble pale hairs; pronotum sparsely covered with erect short brownish hairs intermixed a few long pale hairs; elytra furnished with suberect bristle-like black hairs which are as long as space between punctures; metasternum and legs furnished with subrecumbent brown hairs.
Head wider than pronotum, sparsely covered with fine punctures on vertex and moderately covered with large and deep punctures on occiput; vertex weakly raised with narrow median furrow; occiput depressed medially; temples behind eyes obliquely narrowed, then angularly constricted toward neck; antennae slightly exceeding middle of elytra, and III antennomere as long as IV; relative lengths of antennomeres from base to apex as follows: 22: 8: 15: 15: 22: 21: 23: 20: 21: 20: 27.
Pronotum slightly longer than width at lateral tubercles (PL/PW = 1.03), disk well convex without distinct median longitudinal depression, sparsely covered with distinct fine punctures. Scutellum tongue shaped with few punctures.
Elytra almost as long as twice humeral width (EL/EW = 1.97), with vestigial protrusion at apex along suture; disk moderately with fine punctures, space between punctures nearly twice size of each puncture.
Endophallus (Type C). Basic structure same with L. pilifera though totally slender. Dorsal view: CT gradually narrowed to PB with weak constriction, dm elongate tongue shaped; APH was not well inflated by technical problem (only one male specimen was available) but supposed to be same with L. shaanxiensis. Lateral view: CT strongly inflated ventrally; border of PC and PB not narrowed and strongly curved dorsally with deep ventral constriction; PB rather flat in ventrally with protruded proximal corner; APH was not well inflated by technical problem (only one male specimen was available).
Female: BL = 7.8 mm. EL/EW = 1.84. Similar in general appearance, but pronotum shorter than width at lateral tubercles (PL/PW = 0.91), only I and II abdominal ventrites black, antennae not reaching middle of elytra, and elytra much wider.
Type material examined. Lemula par Holzschuh, 1998: Holotype ♀ (CCH), “ CHINA, Yunnan, Lijiang, /
Yulongshan, Bai Shui, 2900–/ 3300m, 7.–18. VII. 1994, / leg. C. Holzschuh”, “ HOLOTYPUS / Lemula / par n. sp. / det. C. Holzschuh 1998 ”.
Other material examined. [China]: Judian (F甸), Pass 50 km W., Yunnan [1♂, 11–13-VI-2005, Ivo Jeniš leg.].
Distribution. China (Yunnan).
Ecology. Flight period: June–July.
Remarks. Similar to L. pilifera by the endophallic characters, but differs from it by shorter elytral hairs, not entirely black abdominal ventrites and also by longer antennae.
description: Published as part of Ohbayashi, Nobuo & Chou, Wen-I, 2019, Revision of the genus Lemula (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), pp. 451-499 in Zootaxa 4671 (4) on pages 481-482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3450410