Aulacophora lewisii Baly, 1886

Lee, Chi-Feng & Beenen, Ron, 2015, Revision of the genus Aulacophora from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Zootaxa 3949 (2), pp. 151-190 : 170-174

Aulacophora lewisii Baly, 1886

( Figs 73–76 , 82–90 )

Aulacophora lewisii Baly, 1886: 24 ( China) ; Baly, 1888: 179 ( India, Malaysia); Duvivier, 1892: 430 ( India: Mandar); Chen & Kung, 1959: 375 ( China: Hong Kong); Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963: 489 ( China: Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui, Fujian, Guandong, Guanxi, Hainan; Vietnam); Kimoto, 1964: 305 ( Japan: Yakushima, Ryukyus); Kimoto, 1977: 354 ( Bhutan); Kimoto, 1989: 59 ( Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam); Mohamedsaid, 1994: 382 ( Malaysia); Mohamedsaid, 2000: 349 ( Malaysia); Barroga & Mohamedsaid, 2002: 116 ( Malaysia); Mohamedsaid & Constant, 2007: 166 ( Thailand, Cambodia); Aston, 2009: 14 ( China: Hong Kong).

Ceratia lewisii: Miwa, 1931: 189 ( Taiwan) .

Orthaulaca (Ceratia) cattigarensis Weise, 1892: 397 ( China: Shanghai; Japan); Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 489 (as synonym of lewisii ).

Aulacophora (Ceratia) cattigarensis: Laboissière, 1929: 258 ( Vietnam) ; Chûjô, 1935b: 205 ( Japan: Ishigaki island); Chûjô, 1935c: 160 ( Taiwan).

Aulacophora cattigarensis: Ogloblin, 1936: 156 ( Vietnam) ; Chen & Kung, 1959: 375 ( China: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guandong, Guanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan); Chûjô, 1962: 99 ( Taiwan).

Aulacophora intermedia Jacoby, 1892: 942 ; Jacoby, 1896: 126 ( Indonesia: Mentawai islands); Maulik, 1936: 181 ( India); Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963: 488 (as synonym of lewisii ).

Type material. Aulacophora lewisii : lectotype ♀ ( BMNH), here designated, labeled: “SYN- / TYPE [w, p, round label with blue border] // Type / H. T. [w, p, round label with red border] // Baly Coll. [w, p] // China [w, h] // Aulacophora / Lewisii / Baly / China [w, h] // BMNH (E) / #1024852 [w, p] // holotype [w, p]”. Paralectotypes: 2♂ ( BMNH), labeled: “SYN- / TYPE [w, p, round label with blue border] // Hong / Kong / Lewis [w, h] // Aulacophora / lewisii / Baly (♂) [w, p] // not type [w, p] // BMNH (E) / #1024852 [w, p]”. Althought two paralectotypes were labeled as nontype specimens, they cannot be ruled out of type series since the collecting data fits the original description.

Orthaulaca (Ceratia) cattigarensis : lectotype ♀ ( MNHUB), here designated, labeled: “Shanghai [w, h] // cattigarensis / Ws [w, h] // SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”. Paralectotypes: 1♀ ( MNHUB), labeled: “Shanghai [w, h] // SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”; 1♂ ( MNHUB), labeled: “Shanghai / Simom? [w, h] // ♂ [w, h] // SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”; 1♀ ( MNHUB), labeled: “Shanghai / Simom? [w, h] // SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”; 1♂, 1♀ ( MNHUB), labeled: “ Japon [w, h] // SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”; 1♀ ( MNHUB), labeled: “ SYNTYPUS / Orthaulaca / cattigarensis Wiese, 1892 / labelled by MNHUB 2014 [r, p]”.

Aulacophora intermedia : lecotype ♂ ( BMNH), here designated, labeled: “ Type / H. T. [w, p, round label with red border] // Rangoon/ Birmania / Fea 188 [w, p]7[h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28 a. [w, p] // Aulacop. / intermedia / Jac. [b, h] // SYN- / TYPE [w, p, round label with blue border]”. Paralectotypes: 2♂ ( MCZC), labeled: “Carin Chebà / 1000–1100 m / L. Fea V XII-88 [w, p] // Aulacophora / intermedia / sp. n. [b, h] // Type [p] / 17560 [r, h]”.

Other specimens examined. CHINA. Guandong: 1♂, Tsha-jiu-san, V.-VI.1912, leg. S. V. Mell ( BPBM); 1♂, same locality, VIII.1913, leg. S. V. Mell ( BPBM); Hainan: 1♂, 1♀, Dome Mountain, 12.VII.1935, leg. J. L. Gressitt ( BPBM); Hong Kong: 1♀, Lantau, Tung Chung, 31.VII.2007, leg. P. Aston ( PAHC); Sichuan: 1♂, Lungchue-pa to Chang-tau-ging, Wanhsien, 30.IX.1948, leg. Gressitt & Djou ( BPBM); 1♀, Suifu, leg. D. C. Graham ( BPBM); INDONESIA. Java: 1♀, leg. Chev ( BMNH); Sulawesi: 1♀, leg. Wallace ( BMNH); LAOS. Khammouane: 1♂. 2♀, Ban Khoun Ngeun env., 250 m, 20–29.V.2004, leg. E. Jendek and O. Šauša ( JBCB); MALAYSIA. 1♀, MAL CA (= Malacca), leg. Wallace ( BMNH); Pahang: 1♂, Tasik Bera, Pos Iskander, 4– 8.V.1993, leg. Sham, Razali and Saiful ( JBCB); Penang: 1♂, Peng, leg. Wallace, Baly Coll. ( BMNH); 2♂, 2♀, 63 47, leg. Bowring ( BMNH); 2♀, Wellesley prov., Kg. Siam, Pinang Tunggal, 7.VIII.1979, leg. J. Pertanian ( BMNH); Perak: 1♂, 1905-313, leg. Sharp ( BMNH); Sarawak: 1♀, Bidi, 1980-9, leg. C. J. Brooks ( BMNH); 3♀, Kuching, 1910, leg. J. E. A. Lewis ( BMNH); PHILIPPINES. 1♂, 42 22 ( BMNH); 1♂, 67 56 ( BMNH); 1♂, leg. J. Hano, 67 56 ( BMNH); 1♀, 985 ( BMNH); TAIWAN. Ilan: 2♂, 1♀, Yingshih, 31.VII.2009, leg. H.-J. Chen ( TARI); Kaoshiung: 2♀, Maolin, 6.VII.2011, leg. M.-H. Tsou ( TARI); 5♂, 1♀, Meinung, 1.III.2012, leg. J.-C. Chen ( TARI); 1♀, same locality, 17.VII.2012, leg. J.-C. Chen ( TARI); Miaoli: 1♀, Kuantaoshan, 3.XI.2009, leg. S.-F. Yu ( TARI); Nantou: 1♂, 2♀, Puli, 14.IX.2012, leg. Y.-P. Huang ( TARI); Pingtung: 5♂, 2♀, Chuanfanshih, 26.VIII.2010, leg. J.-C. Chen ( TARI); 1♂, Kueishan, 3.VIII.2012, leg. J.-C. Chen ( TARI); 1♀, Tahanshan, 15.XI.2013, leg. Y.-T. Chung ( TARI); Taipei: 1♀, Chihshanyan, 14.VI.2008, leg. M.-H. Tsou ( TARI); 1♂, 1♀, Chuwei, 2006, leg. H.-T. Cheng ( TARI); 1♂, 2♀, Kuanyinshan, 28.VI.2008, leg. M.-H. Tsou ( TARI); 1♀, Peitou, 6.XI.2006, leg. S.-F. Yu ( TARI); 2♂, Taishan, 24.IV.2009, leg. H.-T. Cheng ( TARI); 5♀, Taluntou, 23.VI.2009, leg. S.-F. Yu ( TARI); Taitung: 8♂, 4♀, Lanyu island, 17.III.2012, leg. T.-H. Lee ( TARI); 7♂, 5♀, 17.III.2012, leg. M.- H. Tsou ( TARI); 6♂, 5♀, Lutao island, 14.IV.2014, leg. Y.-T. Chung ( MNHUB, RBCN, TARI); 1♂, same locality, 16.IV.2014, leg. B.-X. Guo ( TARI); Taoyuan: 1♀, Fuhsing, 28.III.2010, leg. M.-H. Tsou ( TARI); THAILAND. Kanchanaburi: 1♂, Phatad valley, 14–15.IX.2009, leg. V. Hula ( JBCB); Nan: 1♂, Ban Huay Kon env., 27.V.– 10.VI.2002, leg. P. Prŭdek and M. Obořil ( JBCB).

Diagnosis. Aulacophora lewisii is similar to A. frontalis and A. palliata with the yellowish brown body and black shining elytron but easily identified by the filiform antenna in male and the sinuate apical margin of the abdominal ventrite V in female (the modified and triangular antennomeres III to V in male and the rounded apical margin of the abdominal ventrite V in female of A. frontalis and A. palliata ).

Males. Length 5.6–6.6 mm, width 2.8–3.1 mm. General color ( Figs 73–74 ) yellowish brown except elytron black and shining. Antenna ( Fig. 82 ) filiform, antennomere I not enlarged, III–V rather stout; ratio of length of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.0: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 1.1; ratio of length to width from antennomere III to XI about 2.6: 2.6: 2.3: 2.7: 2.5: 2.6: 3.0: 3.0: 4.7. Apex of abdominal tergite VIII forming one pair of wide processes ( Fig. 89 ), apex of process rectangular; weakly emarginate at middle; base weakly sclerotized. Median lobe of abdominal ventrite V rectangular, with longitudinal groove from base to apex, apically widened. Penis ( Figs 84–85 ) slender, apically tapering, apex pointed; almost straight in lateral view; tectum well sclerotized, apex pointed, disc ventrally covered with two longitudinal rows of fine setae; endophallus with two longitudinal rows of stout setae at base of tectum, and two longitudinal rows of tingy setae above stout setae, and with one longitudinal sclerite, apex curved and rounded, basally widened.

Females. Length 6.5–7.2 mm, width 3.2–3.6 mm. Similar to male ( Figs 75–76 ), but antennomeres III–V slender ( Fig. 83 ); ratio of length of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.0: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 1.1; ratio of length to width from antennomere III to XI about 3.2: 3.1: 2.7: 2.8: 3.0: 3.1: 3.1: 3.2: 4.4. Apical margin of abdominal ventrite V ( Fig. 88 ) sinuate. Gonocoxae ( Fig. 86 ) slender, apex of each gonocoxa with seven or eight setae from apical 1/6 to apex; gonocoxae connected at middle, base widened. Ventrite VIII ( Fig. 87 ) weakly sclerotized; apex narrow, apical margin a little emarginate at middle, surface with dense long setae along apical margin, spiculum short. Spermathecal receptaculum ( Fig. 90 ) a little swollen, hardly separated from pump; pump strongly curved; spermathecal duct short, stout, shallowly projecting into receptaculum.

Host plants. Cucurbitaceae : including cultivated species.

Distribution. Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 73 – 81. Habitus of Aulacophora species. 73. A. lewisii, male, dorsal view; 74. Ditto, ventral view; 75. A. lewisii, female, dorsal view; 76. Ditto, ventral view; 77. A. nigripennis, male, dorsal view; 78. Ditto, ventral view; 79. A. nigripennis, female, dorsal view; 80. A. opacipennis, male, dorsal view; 81. Ditto, ventral view.

FIGURES 82 – 90. Diagnostic characters of Aulacophora lewisii Baly. 82. Antenna, male; 83. Antenna, female; 84. Penis, dorsal view; 85. Penis lateral view; 86. Gonocoxae; 87; Abdominal ventrite VIII, female; 88. Apex of abdominal ventrite V, female; 89. Abdominal tergite VIII, male; 90; Spermatheca.