Male: black, body length, male (Fig. 1a) 26.4—27.4 mm (n = 2), humeral width, 9.2—9.4 mm. Elytra with purple to green metallic iridescent sheen.

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Figure 1.

Habitus of Anoplophora spp. a. A. fanjingensis sp. n. male; b. A. fanjingensis sp. n., female; c. A. leechi, male; d. A. chiangi, holotype, female, photograph courtesy of Binglan Zhang at the Museum of Biology of Sun Yet-sen University. (scale bars: 10 mm) .

Head: with sparse small punctures on the base of antennal tubercles and genae. Punctures denser on the antennal tubercles than those on the genae (Fig. 2a). Antennae exceed apex of elytra by about 5 antennomeres. Antennae coated with appressed short pale hairs. Scape cicatrix strong and with conspicuous coarse pits and sculptures. Eyes deeply emarginate, lower lobe as high as gena. Frons with a shallow middle groove that extends to the vertex. Labrum trapezoidal (Fig. 3c), wider at apex than at the base, with setae on apical half. Clypeus membranous, without setae (except for the anterior margin of frons) or apparent punctations. Maxilla (Fig. 3b) with palpi 5-segmented; apical palpomere conical; second palpomere short and strongly constricted at basal one third. Third palpomere clubbed. Fourth maxillary palpomere constricted at basal one fifth, then gradually inflated towards apex, about 1.5 times as wide at apical than at base. Labium (Fig. 3d) with palpi 4-segmented; apical palpomere football shaped, inflated at middle; penultimate palpomere inflated, about 1.6 times as wide at widest point as at base. Mandible (Fig. 3a) large, triangular, articulation prominent, cutting surface sharp, unserrated and crescent-shaped.

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Head of A. fanjingensis sp. n. (front view, not to scale). a. male; b. female.

Figure 3.  

Mouthparts and mesonotum-scutellum of A. fanjingensis sp. n. a. mandible; b. maxilla; c. labrum; d. labium; e. mesonotum-scutellum.

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Male genitalia of A. fanjingensis sp. n. a—c. tegmen and median lobe; d & e. abdominal segment 8. (a, d, dorsal view; b, e, ventral view; c, lateral view; scale bar: 1 mm).

Thorax: pronotum black and shiny, with a weak posterior callus, but without distinct anterior and lateral calli. Anterior and posterior transverse constrictions present. Posterior transverse constriction more conspicuous than the anterior one. Glabrous dorsally, with sparse long black hairs laterally at anterior of and posterior of the pronotal spine. Coating with fine appressed hairs ventrally. With fringe of pale hairs at pronotal margin. Lateral pronotal spine strong, thickened at the base, with acute and slightly posteriorly curved apex. Procoxal cavity moderately open laterally and closed posteriorly. Mesosterna covered by numerous appressed black hairs. Scutellum glabrous, triangle-shaped with posterior apex slightly rounded (Fig. 3e). Mesepimeron contacts mesocoxa fully. Mesosternal intercoxal process covered with sparse long black hairs and with a weak ventral projection. Anterior projection not developed. Metasternum and metepisternum black, sparsely punctured and with appressed long black hairs.

Elytra: Black with purple to green iridescent sheen. Four to five small patches of indistinct pale pubescence on each elytron. Two of them on the H4 macula and I1 macula Lingafelter and Hoebeke (2002). Two small maculae on the outer margin of elytron, next to H4 and I1, respectively. The last one is small and roughly at apical 1/3 of elytron, nearly to outer margin. No erect hairs present. No granules at the base. Humeri developed. Outer margin of elytron slightly constricted at basal 1/4. Apex rounded. Sparse black hairs on the edge of elytron, denser and forming a cluster at sutural apex.

Legs: black with pubescence on tarsomeres 1—3 and tibiae. Pale pubescence on dorsal tarsomeres 1—3. Appressed short pubescence on femora, denser on the ventral side, colour of the pubescence paler. Femora cylindrical, short; metafemur extending to posterior margin of third ventrite.

Abdomen: black with coating of appressed pale setae. The apex of terminal ventrite with a shallow middle notch and a fringe of dense hairs (Fig. 5a).

Figure 5.  

Last visable sternite of A. fanjingensis sp. n. a. male; b. female.

Male genitalia (Fig. 4): parameres converging and touching before apices. Part of apical setae of paramere at least half length of paramere. The ventral apex of median lobe broadly rounded and tongue shaped. Median lobe slightly arcuate from lateral view. The eighth tergite transverse at base, gradually constricted towards apex. Not narrow to a point, but with a middle notch. Densely fringed at apical margin. The eighth sternite transverse, with an arcuate apical margin, with sparse pale hairs in the middle of apical half.

Female (Fig. 1b,Fig. 2b): body length, 31.8 mm; humeral width, 11.1 mm. Antennae with about 4 antennomeres exceeding apex of elytra, bluish hairs on the antennae, blue to green metallic iridescent sheen on the elytra, bluish pubescence on dorsal tarsomeres 1—3, weakly developed anterior projection of the mesosternal intercoxal process and middle notch at apex of terminal ventrite present (Fig. 5b).

Anoplophora fanjingensis sp. n., can be distinguished from most of its congeners by the non-annulated antennae, the pronotum with only one indistinct posterior callus and the metallic iridescent sheen on elytra. Anoplophora chiangi Hua & Zhang, 1991 (Fig. 1d) and Anoplophora leechi (Gahan, 1888) (Fig. 1c) are the most similar species to A. fanjingensis sp. n., but they both lack the metallic iridescent sheen on the elytra. Furthermore, A. chiangi has annuli on the antennae and pronounced granules at the base of the elytra. Anoplophora leechi lacks pubescence on the elytra. The pronotum of A. leechi has small calli near the base of pronotal spines while the pronotum of Anoplophora fanjingensis sp. n. has only an indistinct posterior callus. The new species may appear as a dark form of Anoplophora albopicta (Matsushita, 1933). However, A. albopicta was described from Taiwan and has not been recorded in mainland China (Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2019). Based on the description and images of A. albopicta presented by Lingafelter and Hoebeke (2002), the characters of mesonotum, scutellum and calli on the pronotum of A. albopicta are different from those of A. fanjingensis sp. n. The mesonotum of A. fanjingensis sp. n. (Fig. 3e) is pointed at the apical, but truncated in A. albopicta. The apex of the scutellum of A. fanjingensis sp. n. (Fig. 3e) is blunter than that of A. albopicta. Furthermore, middle and anterior pronotal calli are evident in A. albopicta, but not present in A. fanjingensis sp. n. This is also the case when comparing A. fanjingensis with Anoplophora tonkinea (Pic, 1907). Although the type of A. tonkinea is not available for examination, it was designated as incertae sedis by Lingafelter and Hoebeke (2002). Furthermore, according to the original description (Pic 1907), A. tonkinea has multiple calli on the pronotum.

The specific name refers to the collecting location, Mount Fanjing.