Melanesiandra bougainvillensis Santos-Silva & Heffern & Matsuda 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Heffern, Daniel
name: Matsuda, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Melanesiandra
Melanesiandra bougainvillensis

description: Melanesiandra bougainvillensis sp. nov.   
(Fig. 26, 27, 84, 138, 139, 224, 267, 329, 382-384)  
 Etymology. The name refers to the island of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.   
 Type material. Holotype M, from Papua new guinea, Autonomous Region of Bougainville: Bougainville Island (Kukugai Village; 150 m), X.1960, W. W. Brandt coll. (BPBM). Paratypes (4 F), as follows: Papua new guinea, Autonomous Region of Bougainville: Bougainville Island (Kukugai Village; 150 m), F, X.1960, W. W. Brandt coll. (MZSP); F, XII.1960, W. W. Brandt coll. (BPBM). SOLOMON ISLANDS, Makira-Ulawa Province: San Cristobal Island (Wugiroga), F, 8.VIII.1960, C. W. O’Brien coll. (BPBM). Isabel Province: Santa Isabel Island (Molao), F (paratype of Parandra solomonensis Arigony), VI.29.1960, C. W. O’Brien coll. (BPBM).   
 Description. Integument shining, brown; anterior edge of head, parts of mandibles, lateral edges of pronotum and of scutellum, and elytral suture blackish or dark-brown.   
Male (Fig. 382). Head wide, proportionally very large in relation to body size; gibbosities of dorsal surface with punctures coarse, abundant and not confluent; area between gibbosities and ocular carina with depression well defined, and with punctures coarse and very sparse; area behind eyes with punctures very coarse, abundant, in part confluent. Central region of clypeus strongly oblique. Central projection of labrum (Fig. 26) distinct, moderately narrow and barely rounded at apex. Eyes (Fig. 84) emarginate. Mandibles of males (Fig. 138) sub- falciform, shorter than head; inner margin with two teeth together protracted. Submentum glabrous, not clearly delimited by fine suture; surface with coarse punctation, very sparse in central region, in part confluent laterally; margin close to mentum wide and slightly elevated. Antennae not notably short (reaching the pronotal base); ventral sensorial area of antennae not visible from side (Fig. 224), except on apical half of antennomere XI; antennomeres III-X not divided by carina; apical half of antennomere XI divide by carina; dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI small.  
Pronotum convex; punctation fine and sparse on disc, gradually coarser laterally (mainly towards anterior angles); anterior margin almost in a straight line; anterior angles projecting forward; lateral angles absent; posterior angles sub-rounded. Elytra with punctures barely coarse and abundant, finer and more abundant on apical third; elytral carinae absent. Metasternum with some punctures, coarse, laterally. Metafemur (Fig. 383) moderately short. Metatarsus (without claws) (Fig. 267) approximately as long as metatibia (without apical spines); metatarsomere V longer than I-III together.  
Female (Fig. 384). Eyes large. Apex of central projection of labrum (Fig. 27) narrow, acute or subacute. Ventral sensorial area of apical antennomeres variable, but not distinctly divided by carina at basal third or forth of the segments: divided from antennomere VII; or divided only at antennomere XI. Mandibles as in Fig. 139.  
 Dimensions in mm (M / F). Total length (including mandibles), 13.9/16.0-17.6; prothorax: length, 3.0/ 3.3-3.7; anterior width, 3.7/3.9-4.3; posterior width, 3.1/3.3-4.0; humeral width, 3.7/4.3-5.0; elytral length, 8.0/9.9-10.8.   
 Comments. Melanesiandra bougainvillensis (Fig. 382, 384) is similar to M. solomonensis (Fig. 379, 381), but differs, principally, by the clypeus-labrum not strongly convex at middle and absence of a small projection on each side of the central projection of labrum.
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 page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485