Potemnemus kaszabi ( Breuning, 1973: 16 )

Wallin, Henrik & Kvamme, Torstein, 2015, A review of the genus Potemnemus Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of a new species from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4040 (5), pp. 501-542 : 505

Potemnemus kaszabi ( Breuning, 1973: 16)

Figs. 32, 33 , 81 .

Spinopotemnemus kaszabi Breuning, 1973 (synonymized by Slipiñski & Escalona, 2013)

Examined type specimen. HT ♀ NHMUS (photo examination), BL = 40.0 mm, Australia, Queensland, 1962, leg. Hejja.

Morphological characteristics: a large and robust species (BL = 40.0 mm) with body approximately 2.8 x longer than wide ( Figs. 32, 33 ). Dorsally the species is brownish and mottled greyish. Antennae: both are broken in the HT female, but it seems likely that the antennae are extending beyond apices by at least 3–4 antennomeres. Thorax: pronotum is densely covered with very small black spots: consisting of glabrous granules with the black integument exposed. Pronotum medially has a light brown patch of pubescence. There is a longitudinal narrow and whitish band across the brown spot on pronotum with a glabrous spot medially on pronotum. The lateral spines on pronotum are very large. There are two small and raised tubercles medially on pronotum. Elytra: mottled: brownish, yellowish and whitish with epipleuron of similar colours, and a light brown patch on elytra surrounding scutellum. Lateral carina is weakly granulated. Elytra are densely covered with very small black spots: consisting of glabrous granules exposing the black integument. Lateral carina on elytra and epipleuron each with a few, small granules ( Fig. 33 ). Venter: prosternal process with a large and rounded tubercle anteriorly. Mesosternum, and abdominal ventrites, weakly mottled with a mixture of short brownish and yellowish pubescence.

Remarks. This species is most similar to P. pristis , especially regarding the numerous small black spots on pronotum, but is easily separated by the strongly mottled elytral surface covered with very fine black spots, and lateral carina being only weakly granulated. P. k as z ab i is only known from the HT ♀ collected in Queensland, Australia ( Fig. 81 ).

Figures

FIGURE 81. Known records of Potemnemus spp. (red numbers) and Periaptodes spp. (blue numbers) from Australia, the island of New Guinea, Moluccas and Solomon Islands. 1. Potemnemus ennevei De Jong, 1947, 2. Potemnemus kaszabi (Breuning, 1973), 3. Potemnemus lima Pascoe, 1866, 4. Potemnemus nylanderi Wallin & Kvamme, 2014 nov. sp., 5. Potemnemus pristis Pascoe, 1866, 6. Potemnemus rosenbergii Vollenhoven van, 1871, 7. Potemnemus scabrosus (Olivier, 1790), 8. Potemnemus sepicanus Kriesche, 1923, 9. Potemnemus thomsoni Lansberge, 1880 sp. res., 10. Potemnemus trimaculatus Lea, 1918 sp. res., 11. Potemnemus tuberifer Gahan, 1894, 12. Potemnemus wheatcrofti (Breuning, 1971) comb. nov., 13. Potemnemus wolfi Berchmans, 1925 sp. res., 14. Periaptodes frater (Van de Poll, 1887), 15. Periaptodes lictor Pascoe, 1866, 16. Periaptodes olivieri (Thomson, 1864), 17. Periaptodes potemnemoides Kriesche, 1936, 18. Periaptodes testator Pascoe, 1866, 19. Periaptodes paratestator Breuning, 1980.

FIGURES 31 – 36. Habitus. 31. PT ♀ P. e n ne v e i De Jong, 1947, lateral view (photo: Ben Brugge, ZMA); 32. HT ♀ P. kaszabi (Breuning, 1973), 40.0 mm (photo: Z. Gyorgu, NHMUS); 33. HT ♀ P. kaszabi (Breuning, 1973, lateral view (photo: Z. Gyorgu, NHMUS); 34. PT ♂ P. wheatcrofti (Breuning, 1971) nov. comb., 34.0 mm (photo: U. Nylander); 35. PT ♀ P. wheatcrofti (Breuning, 1971) nov. comb., 46.0 mm (photo: Ulf Nylander); 36. PT ♀ P. wheatcrofti (Breuning, 1971) nov. comb., lateral view.