Uracanthus minatus Pascoe 1866
Creators: name: Thongphak, Duangrat
name: Wang, Qiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Uracanthus
Uracanthus minatus

description: <i>Uracanthus minatus</i> Pascoe, 1866 (Figs 41, 79,105) <i>Uracanthus minatus</i> Pascoe, 1866: 93.– Aurivillius, 1912: 147; McKeown, 1947: 65. <i>Description</i> <i>Male. Body length</i>, 16.36 mm; <i>width</i>, 2.58 mm. <i>Colour</i> (Fig. 41). Antennae, legs, metasternite, and abdomen blackish brown; remaining body yellowish brown with head, prothorax and basal 1/3 elytra darker. Head with dense, long, yellowish pubescence. Pronotal disc with 2 broad longitudinal stripes of dense, long, long yellowish pubescence, a narrow, longitudinal, glabrous median line between stripes; side with a narrow longitudinal stripe of very dense golden pubescence near ventral side; Elytron with very dense short yellowish pubescence. <i>Head.</i> Postclypeus triangular, convex, with fairly dense punctures; frontoclypeal suture deep and wide in middle; distance between lower lobes of eyes 1.94 × as long as distance between upper lobes of eyes; distance between upper lobes of eyes 0.95 × as long as distance between eyes on ventral side; genal length 0.45 × as long as head width immediately below eyes. Antennae longer than body; segments 5–10 subcylindrical and slightly produced on one side at apex. <i>Thorax and abdomen</i>. Pronotum 1.38 × as long as width, rounded at side with a very small process on each side; posterior margin 1.33 × as wide as anterior margin; pronotal disc and side strongly rugose transversely. Scutellum semicircular, with dense pubescence. Elytra 4.31 × as long as prothorax and 4.43 × as long as shoulder width; basal 1/3 of elytra with dense coarse punctures and the rest with fine punctures; apex rounded. <i>Male terminalia.</i> Apex of ventral median lobe pointed and apex of dorsal lobe rounded; ventral lobe shorter than dorsal lobe; spined region of internal sac divided into two sections: first section with dense long simple spines and sparse multi-branched spines; second section about as long as first section, with sparse simple spines; no distinct unspined gap between sections (Fig. 79a). Eighth sternite obliquely truncate at sides; widely emarginate at apex, with long and fairly long setae arising terminally; ventral surface with short simple spines and fairly dense cloud-like processes (Fig. 79b). Eighth tergite truncate or slightly rounded at apex, with fairly dense simple spines and multi-branched spines on surface (Fig. 79c). Paramere short, cylindrical in shape, apex rounded with long and short setae (Fig. 79d). <i>Female. Body length</i>, 12.73–17.46 mm; <i>width</i>, 2.26–3.52 mm. Body more robust, antennae shorter than body; distance between lower lobes of eyes less than 2 × as long as distance between upper lobes of eyes; elytra 3.70–3.75 ×as long as prothorax and 3.96–4.16 ×as long as shoulder width. <i>Ovipositor and spermatheca.</i> Ovipositor long; styli short, arising terminally with short hairs (Fig. 79e). Spermatheca heavily curved; spermathecal gland arising near base (Fig. 79f). <i>Distribution</i> Southwestern Western Australia (Fig. 105). <i>Biology</i> Hosts unknown. Adults were collected in October and November. <i>Comment</i> This species resembles <i>U. corrugicollis</i> but differs in having the antennae, legs and abdomen black; the elytral apex rounded without any spine. <i>Material examined</i> <i>Holotype</i>. ♀. <b>WA:</b> no data, bearing a circular type label, and Pascoe's hand writing (BMNH). <i>Other material examined</i>. 1 ♂, 3 ♀. <b>WA:</b> 1 ♀, Lake Grace (33º05'S, 118º24'E), 17.xi.1928, K. &amp; E. Carnaby (ANIC); 1 ♀, Thomas River (33º51'S, 123º05'E), 1.xi.1983, K. &amp; E. Carnaby (ANIC); 1 ♂, Marloo Stn., Wurarga, 1931–1941, A. Goerling (ANIC); 1 ♀, 18 km E by S of Kalbarri (27º44'S, 114º21'E), Kalbarri National Park, 19.x.1984, D. C. Y. Rentz (ANIC).
description: Published as part of <i>Thongphak, Duangrat &amp; 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)</i> on pages 46-47
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