Cnemoplites argodi Lameere, 1903

Jin, Mengjie, Keyzer, Roger De, Hutchinson, Paul, Pang, Hong & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, A Review Of The Australian Macrotomini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae), Annales Zoologici 70 (1), pp. 33-96 : 50

Cnemoplites argodi Lameere, 1903

( Figs. 6 A–D, 16E )

Cnemoplites (Cnemoplites) argodi Lameere, 1903a: 44 . TL: Queensland, Moreton Bay. Lectotype in BNHM (designated here).

Diagnosis. Cnemoplites . argodi can be separated from other Cnemoplites species by the relatively smaller body length, the elytra dark brown to almost black with very dense irregular sculpture.

Description. Length 30–35 mm. Male. Antennae extending to or slightly beyond apices of elytra. Antennal scape and antennomere 3 thicker than the following segments; antennomere 3 slightly longer than scape and distinctly longer than antennomere 4. Prothorax shiny with irregular coarse sculpture; scutellum shiny, punctate. Elytra with very coarse and irregular sculpture, in lateral areas with additional small granules. Abdominal sexual setae long and erect, the setal area transverse, relatively narrow and short. Female. Antennae extending beyond middle length of elytra; sexual setae on abdominal ventrites absent.

Types. Lectotype male ( BNHM- 010799749) deposit- ed in BNHM is designated here, with the following labels “ Moreton Bay | Cnemoplites argodi , Type, Lameere ”. Paralectotype male ( BNHM- 010799859) deposited in BNHM, with the following labels “ Moreton Bay | Cnemoplites argodi, Cotype. Lameere ”; and paralectotype male deposited in MNHN, with the following labels “ Salt Lakes , S. Rustral [ Austral ] | Cnemoplites argodi , ♂, Type, Lameere ” (specimen without abdomen).

Material examined ( Fig. 16E ). New South Wales: AM (1 ♂): Ropes Creek; ANIC (1 ♂; 2 ♀♀): Ogilvie Trail, Banyabba NR, SSW Whiporie, Nov. 2000, S. Watkins; Olives Swamp Myrtle SF., Dec. 1996; Sydney, 1899, W.W.F.; OAI (1 ♂): Graman, Dec. 1960, Bourke, T.V. Queensland: QM (4 ♂♂; 2 ♀♀): 2: “Allinga” Chinchilla, Lithgow, G.; 2: Blackdown Tableland, Stoney Ck. Via Dingo, Dec. 1985, S. Hamlet; Blackdown Tableland, Via Dingo, Dec. 1978, Maywald and Czechura; Durikai, 2km NE, Dec. 2001, L. Popple and J. Moss; RDKC (1 ♂): Dunmore S.F., Dec. 1987, A. Hiller.

Molecular data. BioSample ID: SAMN12650053, SAMN12650106, SAMN12650107.

Figures

Figure 6. Cnemoplites spp. A–D: C. argodi Lameere; E–H: C. cephalotes (Pascoe); I–L: C. gahani Lameere; I, J: Lectotype, male; K: female syntype (BNHM–010799817), indentification uncertain. A, E, I: male, dorsal; B, F, J: male, ventral; C, G, K: female, dorsal; D, H, L: male, abdominal ventrites 3–5.

Figure 16. Distribution maps based on specimens examined.