Storeyandra frenchi Santos-Silva & Heffern & Matsuda 2010
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Heffern, Daniel
name: Matsuda, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Storeyandra
Storeyandra frenchi

description: Storeyandra frenchi (Blackburn, 1895)   
(Fig. 16, 17, 76, 124, 125, 202, 217, 260, 321, 355-359)  
 Parandra Frenchi Blackburn, 1895: 57; Lameere 1902: 95.   
 Parandra frenchi; Lea 1919: 260 (plate XXVII, fig. 91, 92); Illidge 1924: 78; Duffy 1963: 31; Hawkeswood 1992: 208 (host); Webb 1994: 325-327 (distribution, host).   
 Parandra (Parandra) Frenchi; Lameere 1913: 6 (cat.); 1919: 17.   
 Parandra (Parandra) frenchi; Arigony 1984: 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 98 (fig. 54, 63, 64, 65, 66); Santos-Silva 2002: 32 (note).   
 Birandra (Birandra) frenchi; Santos-Silva and Shute 2009: 32.   
 Description. Integument dark-brown; parts of head and mandibles blackish.   
Male (Fig. 355). Head and prothorax together longer than elytral length. Head proportionally very wide in relation to body length; dorsal surface slightly convex; punctures on gibbosities fine and abundant, clearly coarser and confluent towards eyes and occiput; area behind eyes coarsely and confluently punctate, except on protuberances where eyes are inserted, that are finer and sparsely punctate; area between gibbosities and ocular carina barely depressed; ocular carina (Fig. 355) not bifurcated in “Y”; pilosity microscopic and sparse between eyes, very short and sparse on protuberances where eyes are inserted. Eyes as in Fig. 76. Clypeus coarsely and confluently punctate; pilosity short, moderately sparse. Central projection of labrum (Fig. 16) with short, moderately abundant hair. Submentum with transverse and wide carinae; punctures coarse, oblong, deep and confluent in central region, and clearly finer towards mentum; pilosity moderately long and sparse; margin close to mentum just elevated. Antennae (Fig. 217) reaching apical fourth of pronotum; dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI divided by carina at its apical third. Maxillary palp as in Fig. 202.  
Pronotum finely, abundantly punctate in central area, with punctures somewhat coarser and sparser laterally. Elytra with punctures sparse and barely fine on anterior two-thirds, and fine on apical third; each elytron with shallow depression, longitudinal, that begins at basal fourth and finishes just after middle of elytron. Femora (Fig. 356) short and wide. Metatarsus (without claws) (Fig. 260) shorter than metatibia; metatarsomere V shorter than I-III together.  
Female (Fig. 357). Punctures and pilosity on dorsal surface of head and of clypeus as in male. Punctures of pronotum as in male. Elytral punctures fine and abundant towards the suture, and coarser laterally. Submentum coarsely and abundantly punctate; anterior margin as in males.  
 Variability. Integument brown to dark-brown; margins of pronotum blackish. Male: punctures on gibbosities of dorsal face of head rather fine and not notably abundant; labrum with short hair, moderately punctate throughout extension; submentum with transverse carinae only laterally; antennae reaching only to middle of pronotum; sensorial dorsal area of antennomere XI not divided by carina; elytra with fine punctures throughout length, but more abundant on apical third.   
 Dimensions in mm (M / F). Total length (including mandibles), 15.0-25.3/13.5-22.4; prothorax: length, 3.7-6.2/2.8-4.7; anterior width, 4.8-8.4/3.0-4.9; posterior width, 3.6-6.0/3.0-4.8; humeral width, 4.1-6.8/ 3.8-6.0; elytral length, 7.2-11.7/8.5-13.8.   
 Geographical distribution (Fig. 321). Australia (Queensland, New South Wales).   
 Material examined. (11 M, 21 F), as follows: AUSTRALIA. F, 1878, Deyrolle coll. (MCGD); 2 F, [date not indicated] (IRSN). New South Wales: F, XII.10.1923, W. W. Froggatt coll. (AUMU); Cascade, F, [date not indicated] (AUMU); M, F, I.1934, F. E. Wilson coll. (MZSP); F, I.1934, F. E. Wilson coll. (AUMU); 4 F, I.1934, F. E. Wilson coll. (MVMA); Condong (Tweed River), M, [date not indicated], Brown coll. (MVMA); Dorrigo, M (ex. Tippmann Collection), [date not indicated] (USNM); M, [date not indicated] (AUMU); 2 M, [date not indicated], W. Heron coll. (AUMU); M, F, [date not indicated] (MVMA); M, F, [date not indicated], W. Heron coll. (MVMA); M, F, I.1931, C. Oke coll. (MVMA); Sydney, F, XI.03.1923, W. W. Froggatt coll. (AUMU); Ulong, M, [date not indicated], W. Heron coll. (MVMA). Queensland: Mount Bithongabel, F, XII.1963, F. T. Fricke coll. (AUMU); Mountains Bunya, F, XII.14.1937, N. Geary coll. (AUMU); F, XII.15.1937, N. Geary coll. (AUMU); 2 F, XII.21.1937, N. Geary coll. (AUMU); F, II.07.1961, D. K. McAlpine coll. (AUMU); N. Queensland, M, III.02.1905, (MVMA).   
 Type, type locality. Holotype F, from Australia, Queensland. Dr. Peter Lillywhite (Senior Collection Manager, Entomology / Arachnology Sciences Department) sent us photographs of a female (Fig. 358) identified as the holotype of Parandra frenchi Blackburn, 1895, deposited at MVMA. Among those photographs is one with the labels (Fig. 359). One of those labels, not handwritten, refers to locality of collection: “Endeavour River”. That river is in Queensland and not in New South Wales. Blackburn (1895) wrote: “N.S. Wales; in the collection of Mr. French”. Lillywhite (pers. comm.) explained: “Charles French (Sr) is quote as saying to Musgrave that he “did not take up the insects again until about 1860, when my friend, Tom Gulliver, late of Townsville, gave me a start.” I may be drawing a long bow but Queensland was a part of NSW up until 1859. As Townsville is also in what is now North Queensland it is possible that French was collecting there around the time that Statehood was conferred. He would have labeled his material in his collection at the time as NSW. We received this collection in 1908, after the date of Blackburn’s publishing of the species. The Queensland on the photograph may have been a later addition. Please also note that this is the only P. frenchi we have from the collection of C. French”.
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 62-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485