Notomulciber Blackburn, 1894

Hiremath, S. R., 2018, A new species of Notomulciber (Micromulciber) Aurivillius, 1913, from the southern Western Ghats of India (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Homonoeini), Zootaxa 4524 (4), pp. 440-452 : 450

Key to species of Notomulciber Blackburn from India

1 Elytra with disk densely punctured, marginal apical angle elongated into a narrow lobe.................................................................................................... N. (M.) decemmaculatus Breuning 1942

- Elytra with punctures on disk not dense, marginal apical angle obliquely rounded, not elongate ( Figs. 7 & 15–16 )......... 2

2 Body uniformly covered with yellow-brown pubescence ( Figs. 1–6 ); elytron with slightly fine punctures, adorned with five white spots; post-humeral white spot small ( Figs. 1 & 4 )................................ N. (M.) viraktamathi sp. nov.

- Body uniformly covered with grey-white pubescence ( Figs. 7–8 ); elytron not finely punctate, adorned with four white spots; post-humeral white spot comparatively bigger than in previous species ( Fig. 7 )....... N. (M.) travancorensis Breuning, 1958

Figures

FIGURES 1–9. Notomulciber spp.: 1–6. Notomulciber viraktamathi sp. nov.: 1–3. Holotype (Male): 1. Dorsal view, 2. Ventral view, 3. Lateral view; 4–6. Paratype (Female): 4. Dorsal view, 5. Ventral view, 6. Lateral view. 7–9. Notomulciber travancorensis: 7. Dorsal view, 8. Ventral view, 9. Type labels.

FIGURES 10–16. Notomulciber viraktamathi sp. nov.: 10–11. Head: 10. Male, 11. Female. 12–13. Pronotum: 12. Male, 13. Female. 14. Elytra (male), 15–16. Elytral apex: 15. Male, 16. Female.