Potemnemus nylanderi
Creators: name: Wallin, Henrik
name: Kvamme, Torstein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Potemnemus
Potemnemus nylanderi

description: Potemnemus nylanderi nov. sp.
Figs. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 48, 49, 50, 71, 72, 73, 74, 80, 81.
Type specimens designated: Holotype ♂ NHRS (with id NHRS-JONI 000000219), BL = 45.0 mm, BW = 14.0 mm, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Morobe Province (MP), Wau district, Kuper Range, 2200 m, 1995.10.27, local collector. Paratypes: 1 ♂ CUN, BL = 47.0 mm, BW= 14.0 mm, PNG, Eastern Highland Province (EHP), Okapa, 1991.06, local collector; 1 ♂ CUN, BL = 41.2 mm, BW= 13.2 mm, PNG, MP, Aseki, Hiewini Village, 1998-03-27, local collector; 1 ♂ CUN, BL = 42.1 mm, BW= 14.0 mm, PNG, MP, Bulolo, Manki Range, 1997.09.0 9, local collector; 1 ♂ CUN, BL = 49.0 mm, BW= 14.0 mm, PNG, EHP, Okapa, 1991.06, local collector; 1 ♀ CUN, BL = 46.5 mm, BW = 16.0 mm, PNG, MP, Aseki, 1991.06, leg, M. Hudson; 1 ♀ CUN, BL = 54.0 mm, BW= 17.0 mm, PNG, MP, Aseki, 1991.06, leg, M. Hudson; 1 ♀ CUN, BL = 51.2 mm, BW= 16.4 mm, PNG, EHP, Okapa, 1991.06, local collector; 1 ♂ CHW, BL = 45.0mm, BW= 13.0mm, PNG, MP, Yamaiya village, 1997.08.0 5, local collector; 1 ♂ CHW, BL = 43.5mm, BW= 13.5mm, PNG, MP, Aseki, 2000.01.31, leg. M. Hudson; 1 ♀ CHW, BL = 54.0mm, BW= 16.5mm, PNG, EHP, Okapa, 1995.06.19, local collector; 1 ♂ LGBC, BL = 43.0 mm, BW= 14.0 mm, PNG (no further locality data on the label), 2002-10, leg. L. Orsak (photo examination); 1 ♀ LGBC, BL = 57.0 mm, BW= 18.0 mm, PNG, Aseki, Morobe Province, 2002-10, local collector (photo examination).
Description. Large to very large species (BL = 41.2–57.0 mm, BW 13.0–18.0 mm), with body approximately 3.2 x longer than wide in males and 2.9 x longer than wide in females (Figs. 37–40). Antennae: very long, longer than body by about six antennomeres in males and by about 4 to 4.5 antennomeres in females (Figs. 37–40). Antennomeres 6–11 in males are 1.5 x to 2 x as long as each corresponding antennomere in PT male of P. wheatcrofti comb. nov. Antennae are cylindrical, smooth and black with fine brownish pubescence and with fringes of fine hairs beneath. Scape and the two consecutive antennomeres distinctly mottled as a result of the exposed black integument, which consist of weakly tuberculated areas (more pronounced on scape). Scape is long and robust, apical process (cicatrix), with a smooth and glabrous lateral margin. Third antennomere is almost twice as long as scape. Head: brownish, frons relatively narrow in males, wider in females. Eyes very large, lower eye lobes (below scape) are very large and only slightly elongated, about 2– 3 x as long as gena below. Thorax: pronotum is narrow, slightly longer than wide, basal part of elytra about 1.5 x wider than pronotum, surface flattened, smooth and covered with very fine brownish pubescence, except a narrow, yellowish and longitudinal line, interrupted with a glabrous small spot medially. The lateral pronotal spines are widened at base and towards the glabrous edge very fine, straight and sharp. Posterior base of pronotal spines with a series of very small tubercles combined with a short whitish line. Lateral pronotal spines are acutely projecting upwards, towards the head (Figs. 48–50). Scutellum is very small, rounded and with yellowish pubescence. Elytra: brownish and speckled with a combination of very fine brownish and whitish pubescence, medially often with a shining brownish transverse band where the integument is exposed. Basal part of each elytron has a large, more or less distinct, brownish spot laterally towards epipleuron. Elytra have acutely folded epipleuron (almost 90). The distinct margin between elytral surface and epipleuron often with a series of small glabrous and rounded tubercles, densely covered with numerous and fine granules (much more densely covered with granules than in P. wheatcrofti comb. nov.) (Fig. 41). Anterior part of each elytron with a bulb-like raised area medially, with larger and numerous glabrous and rounded, or sometimes slightly elongated, tubercles (Figs. 48–50). Remaining 2/3 of elytra only with smaller and scattered tubercles. Elytral apices have small and blunt sutural spines, and projecting marginal spines. Legs: all legs very long and mottled with brownish and yellowish pubescence. Front legs in males are only weakly elongated and anterior femora in males are as long as, or only slightly longer, than pronotum and head combined. Tarsi are large, elongated and pubescent. Male front tarsi are without spines or projections. Claws have straight inner margin in both sexes, i.e. not saw toothed. Venter: Mesosternum, metasternum and abdominal ventrites mottled with a combination of brownish, yellowish and whitish pubescence. Mesosternal process is flattened at base, and with a distinct knob-like extension anteriorly. Last visible abdominal segment in the females is very short and the posterior margin concave.
Male genitalia. Aedeagus: 8.0–9.0 mm long and 1.4–1.5 mm wide, acutely curved towards apex (Fig. 71). Dorsal ridge is as wide as ventral ridge, and both ridges rounded at apex with yellowish colour (Fig. 72). The two yellowish and crescent-shaped sclerites at the proximal end of the basal phallomer are relatively wide and acutely folded. Internal sac contains a very thin, clearly sclerotized, long thread-like filament, 23.0–24.0 mm. Tegmen: 9.5–10.5 mm long, base of tegmen extended and weakly curved dorso-ventrally on middle. Parameres: 2.0– 2.1 mm long, relatively long and flattened dorso-ventrally, weakly separated medially along inner margin and projecting inwards towards apex (Fig. 73). Base of inner margin lacks an extension from each paramere (Fig. 73). Surface below base of parameres completely separated by a deep furrow (Fig. 73). Apex evenly rounded along posterior margin with scattered fringes of relatively short, yellowish hairs, concentrated at edge of apex. Ventral surface of parameres with scattered punctures and fine hairs concentrated at apex, but without micro-reticulation. Tergite VIII: 3.3–4.0 mm long and broadly convex, with yellowish to brownish pigmentation, posterior margin narrowly rounded, and covered with short, fine yellowish hairs and a few brownish setae distally towards the posterior margin (Fig. 74). Surface covered with weak micro-reticulation.
Female terminalia. Tignum: relatively thick and almost straight or only slightly curved, 20.0 mm long. Width is approximately 0.7 mm at the widest point apically. Tergite VIII: posterior margin is 3.5 mm wide, dorsolaterally with a few scattered and small punctures, and dorso-medially glabrous and shining i.e. no microreticulation. The colour is dark brown. Spermathecal capsule: well sclerotized, brownish, consisting of two different structures: one basal spiral-like part, and a distal, elongated and relatively long, curved shaft with a rounded head (Fig. 80). The shaft and head is 4.0 mm long.
Remarks. P. nylanderi nov. sp. is easily separated from P. wheatcrofti comb. nov. by the larger size, longer legs, and much longer antennae in males. Each of the antennomere 6–11 is almost twice as long as each corresponding antennomere in males of P. wheatcrofti comb. nov. P. n y l a nd e r i nov. sp. is one of the largest species in the genus Potemnemus apart from P. s e p i c a nu s. In addition, the body of P. wheatcrofti comb. nov. is more flattened dorso-ventrally than in P. nylanderi nov. sp., lateral margin of elytra almost parallel in P. wheatcrofti comb. nov., whereas the lateral margin of P. n yl a nd e r i nov. sp. is narrowing towards apex, the bulb-like raised areas medially on basal part of elytra are larger and more elevated in P. nylanderi nov. sp. than in P. wheatcrofti comb. nov., and the lateral spines on pronotum are acutely projecting upwards in P. nylanderi nov. sp. This new species is only known from the eastern parts of Papua New Guinea (Morobe Province and Okapa Province) (Fig. 81).
Etymology. This species is named in honour of our friend and colleague Ulf Nylander who kindly offered his collected specimens, including the new species, of Potemnemus from Papua New Guinea to be included in this work.
description: Published as part of Wallin, Henrik & Kvamme, Torstein, 2015, A review of the genus Potemnemus Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of a new species from Papua New Guinea, pp. 501-542 in Zootaxa 4040 (5) on pages 511-512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239016