Papuandra oberthueri 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
Papuandra
Papuandra oberthueri

description: Papuandra oberthueri sp. nov.   
(Fig. 11, 92, 147, 232, 275, 403, 404)  
 Etymology. We honor René Oberthür with the name of this species for his contributions in entomology.   
 Type material. Holotype F (ex. Collection Oberthür), from PAPUA NEW GUINEA, [no date indicated], Meek coll. (MNHN).   
 Description. Integument shining, brown; parts of head and mandibles blackish; margins of pronotum and scutellum, and elytral suture, blackish.   
Female (Fig. 403). Dorsal face of head very finely, sparsely punctate; gibbosities separated by shallow and wide furrow, and with projection in posterior part near longitudinal furrow; area between gibbosities and ocular carina with narrow depression; ocular carina elevated, without bifurcation in “Y” near posterior edge of eyes; area behind eyes coarsely, sparsely punctate. Eyes (Fig. 92) moderately narrow; posterior ocular edge (Fig. 403) distinct, but without abrupt declivity towards posterior part of head. Central area of clypeus distinctly oblique. Central projection of labrum (Fig. 11) narrow and rounded at apex. Submentum slightly depressed; punctures coarse, shallow and sparse; pilosity somewhat long and sparse; anterior margin wide, elevated only laterally. Mandibles sub-triangular; inner margin with two large teeth together protracted. Dorsal carina elevated only at basal third. Ventral sensorial area of antennomeres III-XI visible from side (Fig. 232) and divided by carina; dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI large; pilosity of antennomeres III-XI long.  
Pronotum slightly convex; punctation fine and sparse; anterior edge concave; anterior angles clearly projected forwards; lateral margins uniformly rounded, straighter between lateral and posterior angles. Elytra coarsely, abundantly punctate (finer at circum-scutellar area); each elytron with two indistinct carinae. Metasternum glabrous, coarsely and moderately sparsely punctate laterally. Metafemur (Fig. 404) short and somewhat wide. Dorsal face of metatibiae flat on apical half. Tibiae with pilosity short and sparse. Metatarsomere V (without claws) longer than I-III together (Fig. 275).  
 Dimensions in mm (F). Total length (including mandibles), 19.4; prothorax: length, 4.3; anterior width, 4.7; posterior width, 5.0; humeral width, 5.8; elytral length, 12.4.   
 Comments. Papuandra oberthueri is similar to P. araucariae, but differs by the: head less elongate behind eyes; projection in posterior part of gibbosities near longitudinal furrow, less distinct; prothorax wider; pronotum less convex. In P. araucariae, the female head is distinctly more elongate behind eyes, the projection of gibbosities is very distinct, the prothorax is narrower and the pronotum is distinctly more convex. Although the female of P. gressitti is not known, in the female of P. oberthueri the pronotum is less convex and the elytra is more coarsely punctate than in males of P. gressitti.   
 Papuandra oberthueri was not plotted one the map because there is no detailed locality.
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 67-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485