Anipocregyes laosensis Breuning, 1965

Yamasako, Junsuke & Makihara, Hiroshi, 2017, Review of the genus Anipocregyes Breuning, 1939 with two new species from Borneo (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini), Zootaxa 4250 (5), pp. 461-474 : 467-469

3. Anipocregyes laosensis Breuning, 1965

(Figs 5–6, 13, 32, 37)

Anipocregyes laosensis Breuning, 1965a: 35 ; Rondon & Breuning, 1970: 331, fig. 4, c, type locality: Laos, Borikhamxay Prov., Pakkading.

Type material examined. Holotype ( BPBM; Figs 32, 37 ):? ♂, “ Packading / Rondon Laos / 27. 6. 64 ” [printed on white label with yellow margin”, “ LAOS: / Borikhane Prov. / Pakkading / 5. IV. 1966 ”, “ J. A. Rondon / Collection / BISHOP MUS.”, “ Anipocregyes / laosensis / mih Typ / Breuning dét.”

Other material examined. 1♀ (Toyama Coll.) , Chaiyaphum, Thailand, V. 2001, N. Nishikawa leg.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to A. multifasciculatus , but differentiated from the latter by the following characteristics: dominant part of body with light brown and pearl white pubescence; elytra with narrow black bands.

Redescription. Female (Figs 5–6; n = 1): LB = 7.0 mm, WB = 2.7 mm.

Body reddish dark brown to black. Head, pronotum, elytra, and femora with sparse long suberect pearl white setae; inferior side of antenna and tibiae with dense same setae. Head, pronotum, and elytra with light brown and pearl white pubescence. Antenna with scape, pedicel, and each basal part of antennomeres 3–11 with pearl pubescence, and the reminders with sparse brown pubescence. Elytra with black pubescence on basal ridge and narrow oblique black bands on each latero-dorsal side near middle. Dominant part of ventral surface and legs with light brown pubescence.

Eye with LL/WL = 1.4, LL/LG = 1.0. Antenna 1.1 times as long as body; relative length of each segment as follows: 1.8: 0.3: 1.8: 1.3: 1.0: 0.8: 0.7: 0.7: 0.6: 0.5: 0.5. Pronotum with LP/WP = 0.7, LP/LB = 0.2, WP/ WEH = 0.8, provided with coarse punctures which are distinct, dense in lateral and latero-dorsal side, but indistinct, sparse in disk; disk with three distinct small tubercles on middle; lateral side with small dull projection near apical margin. Elytra with LE/WEH = 1.7, LE/LB = 0.7, LE/LP = 2.9; disk with longitudinal obtuse ridge behind base near each middle, with small rough punctures which are distinct and relatively dense in basal part, though reduced apically and indistinct near roundly truncate apex, without distinct granules on base.

Distribution. Laos, Thailand.

Remarks. Breuning (1965a) didn’t mention the sex of the holotype. According to the observation by the first author, the holotype is probably male. No further male specimen is available for measurement and dissection on the present study.

This species had been known only from Laos ( Breuning 1965a, Rondon & Breuning 1970). This is the first record from Thailand.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 40. Holotypes and labels of Anipocregyes spp. 31, 36, Cristipocregyes rondoni; 32, 37, Anipocregyes laosensis; 33, 38, Metipocregyes rondoni; 34, 39, Mesosa (Perimesosa) seminivea; 35, 40, Setomesosa rondoni.