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| Xavier |
Posted - 01/09/2013 : 16:04:55
5 mm. Nong Khiaw, Luang Prabang province, Nord Laos.
Voici le Pteroplini Pterolophia bituberculatithorax (Pic, 1930) et la description, pour une fois, très précise qu'en donne son auteur :
Ropica bituberculatithorax n. sp.
Oblongus, nigropiceus, pro parte rufescens, diverse griseo aut luteo pubescens; antennis sat brevibus, apice attenuatis, alboannulatis; thorace breve et lato, in disco minute bituberculato, dense punctato; elytris thorace latioribus, sat elongatis, postice valde attenuatis, fortiter punctatis, in disco postice medium albo notatis, in disco diverse bicostulatis, ad basim et postice nigro cristatis; pedibus multicoloratis.
Long. 5 mill. Saigon. -
Cette petite espèce est caractérisée par le prothorax bituberculé conjointement à la structure elytrale. |
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| Xavier |
Posted - 19/02/2025 : 10:22:04
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An additional image to show the stability of this species. Specimens 3 & 4 are males (but I have not extracted the edeages), with antennae shorter than the HT of P.partepostflava & P. postsubflava.
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| Xavier |
Posted - 19/02/2025 : 09:28:54
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These species are very similar, but I have the impression of seeing 2 species:
- P. partepostflava & P. postsubflava are probably synonymous (an identical apical light spot), as their name “flava” implies.
- this clear longitudinal apical spot is absent on all my specimens (Laos & Thailand), and on P.quadrifasciculatipennis, which seems to me to be the closest.
What do you think ? |
| MONO |
Posted - 19/02/2025 : 04:33:36
1,Pterolophia quadrifasciculatipennis Breuning, 1963
2,Pterolophia partepostflava Breuning, 1965
3,Pterolophia postsubflava Breuning, 1968
I saw the photos of HT posted on Mr. Larry's website, they are really very similar. from the pattern at the end of the elytra,is it possible that is Pterolophia quadrifasciculatipennis? |
| Xavier |
Posted - 14/08/2023 : 08:44:30
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7 mm, male, Oudomxay Province, Laos.
This species is not Pterolophia bituberculatithorax (Pic, 1930): a photograph of the holotype of P. bituberculatithorax was published in TAVAKILIAN , 2018. New nomenclatural changes for 2018 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS) 30: 38-43.
This Pterolophia sp., which I have collected in several localities in Laos and Thailand, seems common to me.
It corresponds to illustrations 18c of the fauna of Laos (Breuning, 1970), and PONPINIJ & Als, 2011.Records of Subfamily Lamiinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Northern Thailand. Pl.4, Fig.j.(= fig.67b in the thesis) incorrectly named Pterolophia bituberculatithorax (Pic, 1930):
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PONPINIJ & Als have adopted the error from the fauna of Laos, as this species is in fact Pterolophia partepostflava Breuning, 1965.
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