Merionoeda (Merionoeda) indica (Hope, 1831)

Wang, P., Liu, M. - Y., Xie, G. - L. & Wang, W. - K., 2022, Study on the genus Merionoeda Pascoe, 1858 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) from Hubei, China, Far Eastern Entomologist 455, pp. 7-13 : 11-12

Merionoeda (Merionoeda) indica (Hope, 1831)

Fig. 4

Molorchus indicus Hope, 1831: 28 .

Heliomanes indicus: White, 1855: 181 .

Merionoeda indica: Gahan, 1906: 171 ; Heller, 1924: 33; Weigel, 2006: 499; Niisato & Yokoi,

2008: 158.

Merionoeda (Merionoeda) indica: Löbl & Smetana, 2010: 204 ; Niisato & Lin, 2013: 74, 81;

Chen et al., 206.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Hubei, Shennongjia Forestry District, Xiaguping,

Jinjiaping village , 31°21′35″ N, 110°14′46″ E , alt. 949 m, 21.VI 2018, 1 ♂, coll. by Lei Li and Ping Wang ; Shennongjia Forestry District, Dongxi village, 31°35′18″ N, 110°07′53″ E ,

alt. 621 m, 30.VI 2019, 3 ♂, 2 ♀, coll. by Xinyue Wang and Ping Wang; Shennongjia Forestry

District , Dajiuhu town, Luoyanghe, 31°34′31″ N, 110°12′11″ E, alt. 680–911 m, 31.V 2019 ,

5 ♂, 1 ♀, coll. by Xinyue Wang and Ping Wang.

DISTRIBUTION. India, Nepal, Laos, China: Hubei (new province record), Sichuan,

Yunnan.

HABITAT. Specimens were collected on Castanea mollissima Bl. in Shennongjia Forestry

District, Hubei, China.

view; 15 – habitus, lateral view; 16 – labels. (Photographs taken by Xavier Gouverneur).

Figures

Figs 1–4. Habitus of Merionoeda spp. males. 1, 2 – M. curtipennis (Pic, 1922); 3 – M. jeanvoinei Pic, 1933; 4 – M. indica (Hope, 1831); 1, 3, 4 – dorsal view; 2 – ventral view.