Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata australis Takakuwa & Hirokawa, 1998

Lin, Mei-Ying, Bi, Wen-Xuan & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2017, A revision of the genus Eutetrapha Bates (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini), Zootaxa 4238 (2), pp. 151-202 : 158

Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata australis Takakuwa & Hirokawa, 1998

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Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata australis Takakuwa & Hirokawa, 1998: 303 , figs. 1, 2. Type locality: Japan, Kyushu , Momiki, Izumi-mura . Type depository: Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History , Odawara, Japan .

Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata australis ; Kurihara & A. Saito, In: N. Ohbayashi & Niisato, 2007: 653, pl. 73, fig. 13.

Host plant. Tilia japonica (Miquel) Simonkai (Tiliaceae) .

Remarks. We did not examine any specimens of this subspecies except photographs of the holotype and one female paratype. According to the original description by Takakuwa & Hirokawa (1998), this subspecies is distinguishable from the nominotypical subspecies by the following features: body stout, especially in male, with rather flattened elytral disk, and densely clothed with orange-yellow pubescence throughout; dorsum of antennae with all the segments in male or basal five segments in female clothed with minute, fuscous pubescence; elytral black maculations evidently smaller and often indistinct or nearly obsolete. In addition, according to the photographs we studied, it appears that this subspecies has shorter antennae than the nominotypical subspecies. However, the coloration of pubescence or black maculae would not be important diagnostic characters because these features are quite variable even in the nominotypical subspecies. This subspecies is known only from areas above 1,400 m altitude in Kyushu, Japan.

Distribution. Japan (Kumamoto Prefecture).

Type specimens examined (through photographs from Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara). Holotype ( Fig. 10 ), male, Japan , Kumamoto Pref., Izumi-Mura , Momiki, Mt. Shiratoriyama, alt. 1400 m, 1989. IX.9 (larva, mesh co. 4830-57-49), leg. Fuminori Hirokawa; 1 paratype ( Fig. 11 ), female, Japan , Kumamoto Pref., Yabe T. Shiiyatôge, alt. 1400 m, 1986. VI.10 (mesh co. 4831-70-14), leg. Fuminori Hirokawa .

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FIGURES 9 – 11. Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata, habitus. 9. Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata sedecimpunctata (Motschulsky, 1860), female, from Japan, Fukushia Pref. 10 – 11. Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata australis Takakuwa & Hirokawa, 1998, photographed by Kyohei Watanabe. 10. Holotype, male, from Japan, Kumamoto Pref. 11. Paratype, female, from Japan, Kumamoto Pref. Not to scale.