Olethrius scabripennis Thomson 1865
Creators: name: Jin, Mengjie
name: Keyzer, Roger De
name: Hutchinson, Paul
name: Pang, Hong
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Olethrius
Olethrius scabripennis

description: <i>Olethrius scabripennis</i> Thomson, 1865 (Figs. 12 A–B, G, J) <i>Olethrius scabripennis</i> Thomson, 1865: 577. TL: Fiji Island. Lectotype in MNHN (examined). <i>Olethrius villosus</i> Dillon et Dillon, 1952: 6. TL: Fiji Island, Viti Levu, Nausori. Type in BISHOP (not examined). Synonymised by Vitali, 2008. <i>Stenodontes</i> (<i>Olethrius</i>) <i>tyrannus</i>: Lameere, 1903b: 131 [partim]. <i>Olethrius tyrannus</i> var. <i>scabripennis</i>: Lameere, 1913: 15; Bigger and Schofield, 1983: 22. <i>Olethrius tyrannus</i>: Vitali and Casadio, 2007: 4. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>Olethrius scabripennis</i> can be recognised by the following combination of characters: the pronotal smooth sexual lateral area subquadrate, the medial area short and broad; the lateral carina of pronotum with numerous teeth and acutely produced; the elytra with dense coarse punctures and recumbent yellow pubescence. Male mandible without distinct longitudinal carina. <b> <i>Type</i>.</b> <i>Olethrius scabripennis</i> Thomson. Lectotype male in MNHN, with the following labels “Scabripennis Thoms. Type, s.c. Ap., Ils Fegee | Museum Paris Coll. J. Thomson 1952 | Th. TYPE”. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> <b>Fiji: AM</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>): Fulton College, N. of Suva, N. Poultet, Jan. 1975; <b>ANIC</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>): Viti Levu, Rakiraki, B.P. Moore, Nov. 1974. <b>New Caledonia: ANIC</b> (1 <b>&amp;female;</b>): Moindou, B.P. Moore, Jan. 1966. <b> <i>Remarks</i>.</b> According to Vitali (2008) <i>O. scabripennis</i> is widespread from the southern Solomon Islands to Tonga, through Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia, and it was also recorded from “ Australia ”, but no new material is available to confirm this.
description: Published as part of <i>Jin, Mengjie, Keyzer, Roger De, Hutchinson, Paul, Pang, Hong &amp; Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, A Review Of The Australian Macrotomini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae), pp. 33-96 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1)</i> on page 69, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3776678
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