Phlyctaenodes pustulatus (Hope), 1841

Jin, Mengjie, Ślipiński, Adam, Keyzer, Roger De & Pang, Hong, 2017, Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini), Zootaxa 4277 (1), pp. 67-85 : 71-72

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6015098

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Phlyctaenodes pustulatus (Hope)
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( Figures 1A, 1B, 1C View FIGURE 1 , 4A–D View FIGURE 4 )

Trachelorachys pustulatus Hope, 1841: 52 . TL: Tasmania, Hobart ? ( OMNH, examined).

Description. Length 11–23 mm. Body integument yellowish brown to brown, elytra with distinctly darker granules; dorsum bearing dense, golden adpressed setae in addition to stiff bristles on granules. Head densely punctate without obvious granules, covered with dense golden setae, especially outside of eyes; terminal maxillary palpomere ovoid in female, weakly expanded apically in male. Antenna in male extending 1–2 antennomeres beyond elytral apices, in female does not reach elytral apices; antennomere 3 distinctly longer than scape or antennomere 4; in male antennomers 9–11 subequal, in female antennomere 9 much longer than distinctly shortened 10 or 11. Pronotum transverse, coarsely punctate; disc with two strong apically spinose admedian projections and three weak nodules in the middle; lateral side with sharp, posteriorly bent median spine. Scutellum covered with adpressed setae. Elytra rounded apically; dorsum with sparse, large and irregularly placed shiny granules, each granule smooth with apical puncture bearing strong bristle; interspaces between granules densely punctate, each puncture with yellow adpressed seta. Legs. Femora weakly thickened apically, mid- and hind femora, especially in male with dense brushes.

Types. “ Trachelorachys pustulatus Hope | Tasmania ” (1, OMNH).

Material examined (37, ANIC; 2, QM; 3, SAM; 15, RDKC): Queensland: “ Gwinganna ”, 6km SW by S Tallebudgera; Cooloolabin Dam, 10km W Yandina ; Mt. Gipps; Tullawallal, Binna Burra. New South Wales: Cooma; Sawpit creek ; National Park, Macpherson Rge.; Jolly Memorial Grove Moonpar; Sydney; Ebor ; Sawpit Creek, Mt. Kosciusko NP.; Tuglo Wildlife Ref., 50km N Singleton; Brindabella Range; Slingsby Track, Dorrigo N.P.; Dampier S.F.; Gibraltar Ranges N.P. Australian Capital Territory: 5km NW of Orroral ; Charley Creek, 5km Nth of Ferguson; Cape Otway, Port Campbell Rd. Victoria: Bendoc; Moe; 2.8km E of Mirimbah, Mt . Buller Rd. ; Maryvale; Bogong NP., 1650M Strawberry Saddle. Tasmania: Hobart; Battery Point ; Mt. Wellington; Bellerive; Newstead, Launceston; Liffey Valley; 13mls. S Westbury; Kingston; Mole Creek .

Distribution (Fig. 6A).Widely distributed along the eastern coast from Southern Queensland to Tasmania.

Biological data. Adults of P. pustulatus have been collected from December to February, mostly by MV light trap. This species can be found in a variety of wet forest types throughout its range. Adults have been reared from rotten timber on the margins of wet sclerophyll forest in Dorrigo National Park, New South Wales.

OMNH

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

SAM

South African Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Phlyctaenodes

Loc

Phlyctaenodes pustulatus (Hope)

Jin, Mengjie, Ślipiński, Adam, Keyzer, Roger De & Pang, Hong 2017
2017
Loc

Trachelorachys pustulatus

Hope 1841: 52
1841
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