Malukandra Santos-Silva & Heffern & Matsuda 2010, new genus
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

description: Malukandra, new genus   
 Etymology. Maluku + Parandra, in reference to the Maluku Islands (also known as Moluccas or Molucca Islands), an archipelago in Indonesia, located east of Sulawesi (Celebes), west of New Guinea, and north of Timor. Feminine gender.   
 Type species. Parandra heterostyla Lameere, 1902.   
 Description. Dorsal area of head, between eyes, with gibbosities barely marked, separated by shallow furrow, without central depression in “V”. Ocular carina elevated or barely elevated, wide or moderately wide from middle to clypeus (in females, from beginning of ocular carina). Eyes (Fig. 77) moderately wide; posterior ocular edge (Fig. 360) distinct; anterior ocular edge without concavity (limits between upper and lower lobes not marked) or with small concavity. Frontoclypeal suture visible only laterally. Central region of clypeus oblique. Clypeolabral suture visible in full extension or nearly so. Central projection of labrum of male narrow and rounded (Fig. 19) or subacute (Fig. 18); central projection in female subacute (Fig. 21). Mandibles of male sub-falciform and barely longer than head (Fig. 364) or not falciform and shorter than head (Fig. 360); dorsal carina absent or nearly so; inner margin dentate; outer face wide at base and abruptly narrowed around middle, forming a tooth (Fig. 77-79); apex with two large teeth, visible dorsally, and a third, small tooth, not visible dorsally; inner face with strong and successive transverse keels (Fig. 361). Mandibles of female (Fig. 129), dorsally, Birandra -like; outer face and dorsal carina as in male; inner margin dentate; dorsal face with transverse depression at base; inner face without transverse keels. Mentum with long, sparse hair, or glabrous, or nearly glabrous. Galea long (reaching or almost reaching base of fourth segment of maxillary palp). Ventral sensorial area of antennae (Fig. 218) not visible from side, and not divided by carina; ventral sensorial area of antennomere XI invading dorsal area; dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI large, divided, or not, by carina.   
 Pronotum convex; anterior edge of male barely concave at central region, and in female, concave; anterior angles of male barely projected forward or not projected, and in female, clearly projected forward; lateral angle distinct, or barely distinct or absent; posterior angles well defined, obtuse or in right angle. Elytra with coarse, deep punctures or somewhat coarse and not notably deep. Veins MP 3 and MP 4 not fused at their apex. Apex of prosternal process barely enlarged. Femora glabrous. Dorsal face of tibiae rounded. Procoxal cavities clearly open behind. Metatarsomere III clearly bilobed. Paronychium with one seta.   
 Included species. Malukandra heterostyla (Lameere, 1902), comb. nov.; M. jayawijayana Santos-Silva, Heffern and Matsuda, sp. nov.; M. hornabrooki Santos-Silva, Heffern and Matsuda, sp. nov.   
 Geographical distribution (Fig. 315). Indonesia (Sulawesi (?), Halmahera and Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea.   
 Comments. Malukandra differs from other genera of Parandrinae by the presence of a tooth on the outer face of mandibles in both sexes, and by the presence of transverse keels on inner face of the mandible of males.
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 57-58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485