Brephilydia fearni Jin &amp; Keyzer &amp; Hutchinson &amp; Pang &amp; Ślipiński 2020, sp. nov.
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
Brephilydia
Brephilydia fearni

description: <i>Brephilydia fearni</i> sp. nov. (Figs. 5 A–D, 16D) <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> The northern Queensland species <i>B. fearni</i> is not sympatric with more southern and widely distributed vicariant. It can be recognised from <i>B. jejuna</i> by having frontoclypeal suture approximately forming a right angle (Fig. 5D), the mandibular surface with very short and sparse fine hairs and the longer elytra (about 5 times of pronotum length in male, 6 times length of pronotum in female). <b> <i>Description</i>. Male.</b> Body length 26–42 mm; body sub-parallel and slender, head capsule length about 0.7× of width; mandibles strong, as long as frons; pronotum slightly longer and broader than head; elytra over 4× of head capsule length. Antennal scape longer than antennomere 3, and almost twice thicker than antennomere 3; interorbital width 1.4× of eye length. Prosternal process narrow medially, gradually expand- ed and pointed at apex, narrowest point about 0.3× length of procoxal cavity, and same as hypomeron width; mesoventral process broader than prosternal process, width about half of mesocoxal cavity width. Elytra about 5× length of pronotum. Abdominal ventrite 1 slightly longer than 2 or 3, ventrite 5 truncate or very weakly emarginate at apex. Metatarsomere 1–3 length ratio as 2:1:1, tarsomere 5 shorter than 1 and 2 combined. <b>Female.</b> Body length 25–45 mm; antennal scape about 1.5× thicker than antennomere 3; elytra about 6x length of pronotum. <b> <i>Etymology</i>.</b> The species name is dedicated to Mr. Simon Fearn from QVMAG, who collected the most type specimens and generously loaned us many prionine specimens for this project. <b> <i>Types</i>.</b> <b>Holotype. &amp;male;</b>, “ Black light, Kareeya Power Station, Tully Gorge, N.E. Qld, 8/2/2002, S. Fearn ” (QVMAG). <b>Paratypes (5).</b> 2 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>, “ D. Perkins, Cardstone, Qld, Oct. – Dec. 1972 | ANIC 25 068137” (ANIC), “Black light, Kareeya Power Station, Tully Gorge, N.E. Qld, 23/11/2001, S. Fearn ” (QVMAG); 3 <b>&amp;female;&amp;female;</b>: “ 17°19’06.63’’S, 145°30’43.58’’E (GE), Wongabel St. For. Pavey Rd., QLD, 746m, 17 APR 2013, DCF Rentz, Stop 13-14 | ANIC 25 066032” (ANIC), “Black light, Kareeya Power Station, Tully Gorge, N.E. Qld, 8/2/2002, S. Fearn ” (QVMAG), “Black light, Kareeya Power Station, Tully Gorge, N.E. Qld, 23/11/2001, S. Fearn ” (QVMAG). <i>Other material examined</i> (Fig. 16D). <b>Queensland: ANIC</b> (7 <b>&amp;male;&amp;male;</b>; 6 <b>&amp;female;&amp;female;</b>): 2: 15.4m up whitfield, Cairns, Oct. 1971, J.G. Brooks; 2: Boar PKT, Dec. 1969, J.G. Brooks; 2: Cardstone, May 1972, D. Perkins; 2: Cardstone, Oct. – Dec. 1972, D. Perkins; 2: Lake Barrine, Atherton, Tableland, Dec. 1985, J. Balderson; 8km WbyN of Bald Hill, McIlwraith Range, Jun. – Jul. 1989, T. Weir and A. Calder; Cardstone, Feb. 1973, D. Perkins; Townsville, Dec. 1958, S Brock; <b>QM</b> (1 <b>&amp;male;</b>): Windsor Tableland, NW of Mossman (site 1), Jan. 1994, G. and A. Daniels R. Eastwood; <b>QVMAG</b> (1 <b>&amp;female;</b>): Kareeya Power Station, Tully Gorge, Mar. 2001, S. Fearn. <b> <i>Molecular data</i>.</b> BioSample ID: SAMN12650119 (Holotype), SAMN12650118 (Paratype).
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 47, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3776678