Uracanthus strigosus Pascoe, 1875: 62
French, 1911: 67
Taxonomic revision of the longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Uracanthini) from Australia.
Thongphak, Duangrat
Wang, Qiao
Zootaxa
2007
2007-08-31
1569
1569
1
139
7DLKW
Pascoe, 1875
Pascoe
1875
[151,573,1471,1497]
Insecta
Cerambycidae
Uracanthus
Animalia
Coleoptera
52
53
Arthropoda
species
strigosus
Uracanthus strigosus Pascoe, 1875: 62.— French, 1911: 67, pl. cxi, Fig.6; Aurivilius, 1912: 147; Lea, 1916: 384; McKeown, 1947: 66; Duffy, 1963:117; Monné, 2005: 660.
Description Male. Body length, 15.26–22.93 mm; width, 2.98–4.5 mm. Colour(Fig. 45). Body reddish brown with head, prothorax and basal 1/3 of elytra often darker. Head with fairly dense yellowish pubescence. Pronotal disc with 4 longitudinal stripes of yellowish pubescence: 2 wider and denser ones on sides and 2 narrower and sparser ones between the former; each side of pronotum with a longitudinal stripe of dense pubescence near ventral side; ventral surface of prothorax with fairly dense white pubescence. Each elytron with 4 longitudinal stripes of dense yellowish white pubescence; the two closer to suture appearing to merge into one from basal 1/3 or middle to apex. Mid and hind femora with very dense, brush-like brownish hairs on ventral side. Abdomen with fairly dense yellowish pubescence; each of visible sternites 1–3 with a medial tuft of very dense brownish hairs. Body colour may vary from reddish brown to blackish. Pubescence colour may vary from whitish to greyish. Specimens from Queenslandare darker than those from New South Wales. Head.Postclypeus semicircular to subtriangular and flattened, with fine punctures; frontoclypeal suture deep and narrow in middle; distance between lower lobes of eyes 2.06–2.21 × as long as distance between upper lobes of eyes; distance between upper lobes of eyes 0.77–0.85 × as long as distance between eyes on ventral side; genal length 0.31–0.41 × as long as head width immediately below eyes. Antennae slightly shorter than body; segments 4–10 slightly produced on one side at apex. Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum 1.12–1.30 × as long as width, with a strongly raised conical process at each side; posterior margin 1.17–1.44 × as wide as anterior margin; pronotal disc weakly binodulose in middle area; disc and side strongly rugose transversely. Scutellum semicircular, with dense pubescence. Elytra 3.87– 4.61 × as long as prothorax and 3.64–4.05 × as long as shoulder width, with coarse punctures in basal 1/3, gradually diminishing toward apex; apex bispinose with marginal spine much longer. The apical spines of elytra may vary from long to short. Apex of terminal sternite slightly emarginate. Male terminalia. Apex of ventral median lobe emarginate and apex of dorsal lobe narrowly rounded or slightly pointed; ventral lobe longer than dorsal lobe; spined region of internal sac divided into two sections: first section longer than unspined gap between first and second sections, with fairly dense short simple spines; second section about as long as first section, with sparse short simple spines ( Fig. 83a). Eighth sternite obliquely truncate or more or less rounded at side, clearly emarginate at apex, with sparse long setae arising terminally; ventral surface with cloud-like processes ( Fig. 83b). Eighth tergite shallowly emarginate at apex; dorsal surface with fairly dense short simple spines and multi-branched spines in basal area ( Fig. 83c). Paramere 1.96–1.98 × as long as wide, cylindrical in shape, apex rounded with long and short setae ( Fig. 83d). Female. Body length, 19.82–22.19 mm; width, 3.56–4.63 mm. Antennae distinctly shorter than body; femora without brownish brush-like hairs and visible sternites without medial tufts of very dense brownish hairs. Ovipositor and spermatheca.Ovipositor relatively long; styli arising terminally with short and long hairs ( Fig. 83e). Spermatheca curved, particularly near apex; spermathecal gland short and arising at basal 1/3 ( Fig. 83f) Distribution Northeastern and southeastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, southern and central Victoria, northern South Australia, and southwestern Western Australia ( Fig. 107). This species was accidentally introduced to Ecuador( Monné 2005). Biology Known hosts are Acaciaspp, Helichrysum ferrugineum, Melaleuca uncinataand Casuarinasp.Adults were collected from October to April, and attracted to light. Comments This species resembles U. albatusbut differs in having the pronotal disc with 4 longitudinal stripes of pubescence on the disc; pubescent stripes close to the elytral suture tending to merge from middle towards the apex. Material examined Holotype. ♀. NSW: Rope’s Creek, Pascoe Coll. 93-60, bearing circular type label, and Pascoe’shandwriting of the species names ( BMNH). Other material examined. 59 ♂, 41 ♀. QLD: 1 ♂, Toowoomba, 1.x.1928, W. B. Branard( QDPI); 1 ♂, 5 ♀, Yuleba SF Site1 ( 26°58'S, 149°44'E), 270 m, Cypress/ Box, 8–10.iii.2002, MV light, Monteith& Wright( QM); 1 ♀, 330 m, Barakula( 26°26'S, 150°31'E), 17–18.xii.2001, MV light, Monteith& Wright( QM); 1 ♂, Lake Broadwater( 27°21'S, 151°07'E) via Dalby, Gravel Ridge, 12.ii.1985, to light, M. Benie( QM); 1 ♂, same locality but 23.ii.1986, MV light, G. B. Monteith& G. Thompson( QM); 1 ♀, Mt. Moffat National Park( 25°01'S, 147°57'E), Top Moffat Camp, 13–15.xii.1987, Monteith, Thompson& Yeates( QM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 520 m, Wonga Hillssite 3 ( 26°04'S, 150°49'E), 11.xii.2001, MV light, vine scrub, Monteith, Cook& Wright( QM); 1 ♂, Blackdown Tablelandsand Staney Ck. Via Dinge, 17–19.xii.1985, at light, S. Hamlet( QM); 1 ♂, 24 kmN. Tinaroo Dam( 17°09'S, 145°33'E), 10–11.xii.1999, at MV light, A. E. Wart( QM); 1 ♂, Bulimba( 16°52'S, 143°29'E), 1.vii.1923( UQIC); 1 ♂, Miles( 26°39'S, 150°11'E), 12.i.1939, N. Geary( AM); 1 ♀, Condamine( 26°55'S, 150°08'E), 6.ii.1939, N. Geary( AM); 1 ♀, Roma( 26°34'S, 148°47'E), 28.iii.1957, E. F. Riek( ANIC); 1 ♂, Tambourine( 27°52'S, 153°07'E) ( UQIC). NSW: 1 ♂, Rope’s Creek( QM); 1 ♂, same locality but 29.ix.1913, in wattle nut, W. du B. ( SAM); 1 ♀, same locality but ( MAM); 1 ♀, Sydney, H. W. Cox( WADA); 2 ♀, same as above but ( NMV); 1 ♂, Grose Vale, 27.ix.1985, J. A. Humphreys( ASCU); 1 ♂, Mangrove Mt., 6.xi.1960, Mosseand Robinson( ASCU); 1 ♀, Clarence, Blue Mt, 12.ii.1979, N.W. Rodd( AM); 1 ♀, Bombala( AM); 1 ♂, Mogriguy( 32°03'S, 148°39'E), 9.ii.1981, R. H. Mulder Collection( AM); 1 ♂, Mt. Kaputar( 30°16'S, 150°10'E), Bullawa Creek, 28.xi.1984, George Hangay( MAM); 1 ♀, NSW ( WADA); 1 ♂, 20 milesSW of Singleton, NSW, 12.xi.1968, no abdomen, I. F. B. Common( ANIC); 1 ♀, Yarras, 27.xi.1964( ANIC); 1 ♂, Colo Vale, 21.v.1900( AM). VIC: 1 ♀, Bright( 36°43'S, 146°57'E), Coll.no. I. 5485 ( SAM); 3 ♂, 1 ♀, Melton( 37°40'S, 144°34'E), 28.iii.1920, on Casuarina, F. E. Wilson, F. E. Wilson Collection( NMV); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same locality but ( VAIC); 1 ♀, same locality but ( AM); 1 ♂, Kiata( 36°21'S, 141°47'E), i.1928, bred from Melaleuca uncinata,F. E. Wilson Collection( NMV); 1 ♀, Walpeup( 35°08'S, 142°20'E), 25.x.1984, light trap( VAIC); 1 ♂, Birchip( 35°58'S, 142°54'E), x.1902, det. Lea( NMV); 1 ♂, Victoria( AM); 1 ♀, 7.vi.1937, Coll.no. I 5485 ( SAM); 1 ♂, Victoria, 15.v.1916, D. Bcatly( NMV); 1 ♀, You Yangs( 37°56'S, 144°26'E), C. Oke( NMV); 1 ♂, Grampians( 37°08'S, 142°21'E), 1400ft., Wannon Dividing, Vic., 8.ii.1956, no abdomen, I. F. B. Common( ANIC); 1 ♂, 17 NW Orbost( 37°42'S, 148°27'E), Vic, 8.xii.1955, no abdomen, E. F. Riek( ANIC); 1 ♀, Wyperfeld( 35°33'S, 142°07'E), Vic, i.1974, GWA ( ANIC); 1 ♂, 4 ♀, N Mallee, Dixon, 1917 ( NMV); 1 ♀, 5 milesW of Jeparit( 36°08'S, 141°59'E), VIC, 4.ii.1956, I. F. B. Common( ANIC); 1 ♂, Big Desert, Broken Bucket Crown Land Res. 7.iii.1975, UV light, P. B. McQuillan( SAM); 1 ♀, Vic, 4.vi.1908( ANIC). SA: 3 ♂, Glenmanyie Bore( 30°50'S, 140°34'E), E of Lake Frome, 28.ix.1975, at light, sand ridges with black oak Acacia, P. Aitken & T. F. Houston (SAM); 2 ♂, 15 kmW Sturt Vale Stn.( 35°29'S, 138°59'E), 17.xi.1975, at light, G. F. Gross( SAM); 1 ♂, 185 kmS Radium Hill, 3.x.1926, on powerline track, at light, P. Aitken( SAM); 1 ♂, 10 kmNW Emu Junc.( 28°38'S, 132°12'E), Great Victoria Desert., 10.x.1976, at light, J. A. Herridge& G. F. Gross( SAM); 1 ♀, ‘ Kurlge’ Blackwood, 860ft, 1.x.1956, at MV light, N. B. Tindale( SAM); 1 ♂, nr Morgan, xi.1954, F. J. Mitchell( SAM); 1 ♀, Wirrabara, xi.(no year) ( SAM); 1 ♀, no data, SA, no abdomen ( SAM). WA: 1 ♂, 4 kmW of Hyden, 29.i.1993, E. D. Edward& E. S. Nielsen( ANIC); 1 ♀, no data, det by Lea, no abdomen ( ANIC); 1 ♂, Wialki, 6.x.1983, R. P. McMillan( WAM); 5 ♂, 7.5 kmSE of BanjiwarnHS ( 27°42'S, 121°37'E), 24.iii. 1979, T. F. Houstonet. al. ( WAM); 1 ♂, Binnu, 2.ii.1965, M. de. Graaf( WAM); 1 ♂, Condingup, E of Esperance, 27.i.1977, A. M. & M. J. Douglas( WAM); 1 ♂, 10 kmW by SW of Point Malcolm( 33°48'S, 123°48'E), 15–18.i.1982, B. Hanich& T. F. Houston( WAM); 1 ♂, Fitzgerald RiverNation Park ( 33°47'S, 119°45'E), 5.i.1986, MV lamp, no abdomen, G. & A. Daniels( UQIC). Localityunknown: 3 ♀, Coll.no. 3455, Relton Bequest( QM); 2 ♂, ex Casuarina, 1.ii.1911( NMV); 1 ♀, same as above but ix.1911( AM); 2 ♀, same as above but xi.1912( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but ( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but ( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but xii.1908( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but xi.1908( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but i.1907( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but ii.1914( NMV); 1 ♂, same as above but iii.1918( NMV); 1 ♂, no data ( NMV).
BMNH
Rope's Creek
Pascoe's
53
54
1
1
holotype
[725,1323,1992,2018]
1928-10-01
QDPI
W. B. Branard
Toowoomba
53
54
1
1
2002-03-08
2002-03-10
2002-03-08
QM
Yuleba SF Site & Cypress & Monteith & Wright
270
54
55
-26.966667
Box
1239
149.73334
53
54
6
5
1
[234,1374,192,218]
2001-12-17
2001-12-18
2001-12-17
QM
Monteith & Wright
330
-26.433332
Barakula
1241
150.51666
54
55
1
1
1985-02-12
QM
Dalby & M. Benie
-27.35
Gravel Ridge
1237
151.11667
Lake Broadwater
54
55
1
1
1986-02-23
QM
Monteith & Thompson
-27.35
Gravel Ridge
1237
151.11667
Lake Broadwater
54
55
1
1
1987-12-13
1987-12-15
1987-12-13
QM
Monteith & Thompson & Yeates
-25.016666
Top Moffat Camp
1248
147.95
Mt. Moffat National Park
54
55
1
1
2001-12-11
QM
Monteith & Cook & Wright
520
-26.066668
Wonga Hills
1243
150.81667
54
55
2
1
1
[234,1375,392,418]
1985-12-17
1985-12-19
1985-12-17
QM
Staney Ck. Via Dinge & S. Hamlet
Blackdown Tablelands
54
55
1
1
1999-12-10
1999-12-11
1999-12-10
QM
Wart
-17.15
Tinaroo Dam
1279
145.55
54
55
1
1
1923-07-01
UQIC
-16.866667
Bulimba
1280
143.48334
54
55
1
1
[630,1313,472,498]
1939-01-12
AM
Geary
-26.65
Miles
1241
150.18333
54
55
1
1
1939-02-06
AM
Geary
-26.916666
Condamine
1239
150.13333
54
55
1
1
1957-03-28
ANIC
Riek
-26.566668
Roma
1241
148.78334
54
55
1
1
[319,855,552,578]
UQIC
-27.866667
Tambourine
1235
153.11667
54
55
1
1
[948,1237,552,578]
QM
Rope's Creek
54
55
1
1
1913-09-29
SAM
Rope's Creek
54
55
1
1
[764,1132,592,618]
1913-09-29
MAM
Rope's Creek
54
55
1
1
WADA
Sydney, H. W & Cox
54
55
1
1
[274,643,632,658]
NMV
54
55
2
2
[656,1304,632,658]
1985-09-27
ASCU
J. A. Humphreys
Grose
54
55
1
1
Valais
1960-11-06
ASCU
Mosse & Robinson
Mangrove Mt.
54
55
1
1
Valais
[777,1409,672,698]
1979-02-12
AM
N. W. Rodd
Blue Mt
Clarence
54
55
1
1
Valais
AM
Bombala
54
55
1
1
Valais
[386,1321,712,738]
1981-02-09
AM
Mulder Collection
-32.05
Mogriguy
1213
148.65
54
55
1
1
Valais
1984-11-28
MAM
George Hangay
-30.266666
Bullawa Creek
1222
150.16667
Mt. Kaputar
54
55
1
1
Valais
[1136,1376,752,778]
WADA
54
55
1
1
Valais
1968-11-12
ANIC
Common
20 miles SW of Singleton
54
55
1
1
Valais
1964-11-27
ANIC
Yarras
54
55
1
1
Valais
[257,632,832,858]
1900-05-21
AM
Colo
54
55
1
1
Valais
[712,1378,832,858]
SAM
Coll.
-36.716667
Bright
1185
146.95
54
55
1
1
Valais
1920-03-28
NMV
Collection
-37.666668
Melton
1180
144.56667
54
55
4
1
3
Valais
1920-03-28
VAIC
Collection
-37.666668
Melton
1180
144.56667
54
55
2
1
1
Valais
[559,899,912,938]
1920-03-28
AM
Collection
-37.666668
Melton
1180
144.56667
54
55
1
1
Valais
1928-01
NMV
Collection
-36.35
Kiata
1188
141.78334
54
55
1
1
Valais
1984-10-25
VAIC
-35.133335
Walpeup
1195
142.33333
54
55
1
1
Valais
[382,1109,992,1018]
1902-10
NMV
Lea
-35.966667
Birchip
1190
142.9
54
55
1
1
Valais
[1126,1367,992,1018]
AM
Victoria
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1937-06-07
SAM
Coll.
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[586,1110,1032,1058]
1916-05-15
NMV
Bcatly
Victoria
54
55
1
1
Victoria
NMV
C. Oke
-37.933334
You Yangs
1178
144.43333
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1956-02-08
ANIC
Wannon Dividing & I. F. B. Common
427
-37.133335
Vic.
1183
142.35
Grampians
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1955-12-08
ANIC
NW Orbost & E. F. Riek
-37.7
Vic
1180
148.45
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[397,1174,1152,1178]
1974-01
ANIC
-35.55
Vic
1193
142.11667
Wyperfeld
54
55
1
1
Victoria
NMV
N Mallee & Dixon
54
55
5
4
1
Victoria
[407,1431,1192,1218]
1956-02-04
ANIC
Common
-36.133335
5 miles W of Jeparit
1189
141.98334
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[151,1314,1232,1258]
1975-03-07
SAM
P. B. McQuillan
Broken Bucket Crown Land Res.
Big Desert
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1908-06-04
ANIC
Vic
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1975-09-28
-30.833334
Glenmanyie Bore
1219
140.56667
54
55
3
3
Victoria
1975-11-17
SAM
Gross
-35.483334
Stn.
1193
138.98334
54
55
2
2
Valais
1926-10-03
SAM
Aitken
185 km S Radium Hill
54
55
1
1
Valais
1976-10-10
SAM
Great & J. A. Herridge & G. F. Gross
-28.633333
Desert.
1231
132.2
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1956-10-01
SAM
N. B. Tindale
262
Kurlge' Blackwood
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[347,901,1472,1498]
1954-11
SAM
F. J. Mitchell
Morgan
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[914,1337,1472,1498]
SAM
Wirrabara
54
55
1
1
Victoria
SAM
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[578,1431,1512,1538]
1993-01-29
ANIC
Edward & E. S. Nielsen
4 km W of Hyden
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[151,689,1552,1578]
ANIC
Lea
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[701,1247,1552,1578]
1983-10-06
WAM
R. P. McMillan
Wialki
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1979-03-24
WAM
Houston
-27.7
7.5 km SE of Banjiwarn
1235
121.61667
54
55
5
5
Victoria
1965-02-02
WAM
Graaf
Binnu
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[332,1223,1632,1658]
1977-01-27
WAM
A. M. & M. J. Douglas
Condingup
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1982-01-15
1982-01-18
1982-01-15
WAM
Hanich & Houston
-33.8
SW of Point Malcolm
1203
123.8
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1986-01-05
UQIC
Daniels
-33.783333
Fitzgerald River
1203
119.75
54
55
1
1
Victoria
Locality
54
55
1
Victoria
[288,805,1752,1778]
QM
Relton Bequest
Coll.
54
55
3
3
Victoria
[820,1264,1752,1778]
1911-02-01
NMV
54
55
2
2
Victoria
1911-09
AM
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[447,905,1792,1818]
1912-11
NMV
54
55
2
2
Victoria
[917,1280,1792,1818]
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[374,841,1832,1858]
1908-12
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[853,1311,1832,1858]
1908-11
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
1907-01
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[492,951,1872,1898]
1914-02
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[964,1431,1872,1898]
1918-03
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria
[151,389,1912,1938]
NMV
54
55
1
1
Victoria