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Corresponding author: Shulin Yang (shulin.yang@outlook.com)
Academic editor: Yasen Mutafchiev
Received: 05 Mar 2020 | Accepted: 27 Aug 2020 | Published: 13 Oct 2020
© 2020 Shulin Yang, Weicheng Yang, Yu Tian
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Citation:
Yang S, Yang W, Tian Y (2020) Description of Anoplophora fanjingensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from southwest China. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e51752. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e51752
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Anoplophora Hope, 1839 is a genus including more than 40 species occurring in Asia. Most species of this genus have beautiful colours on the elytra and are of great interest to insect collectors. Due to their developing in and consuming wood in the larval stage, species in this genus could be economically important, such as A. glabripennis, an introduced species to North America.
We described Anoplophora fanjingensis sp. n., based on specimens from Mount Fanjing (also Fanjingshan), Jiankou County, Guizhou, China. The new species is characterised by its elytra with metallic iridescent sheen and the non-annulated antennae. Habitus of two similar species, Anoplophora chiangi and Anoplophora leechi, are also presented.
Longhorn beetle, Sky Ox Beetle, taxonomy
Anoplophora Hope, 1839 is a genus of the tribe Lamiini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) that encompasses more than 40 species occurring in Asia (
The aim of this study is to describe a new species of the genus Anoplophora from Guizhou Province, China.
A total of four specimens, including three males (one damaged) and one female, of the new species were collected by light traps in Huixiangping, Jiangkou County, Guizhou Province, China. Morphological characters were examined using an AmScope SM-4TZ stereomicroscope. Habitus pictures were taken with a Canon EOS 6D digital camera fitted with a Carl Zeiss Milvus 100 mm lenses. Male genitalia were photographed with an Olympus SZX7 stereomicroscope using an Olympus DP22 camera. Type materials were deposited in the School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China (GZNULS).
The data underpinning the analysis reported in this paper are deposited at GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, http://ipt.pensoft.net/resource.do?r=xxxxxx.
Male: black, body length, male (Fig.
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.
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.
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
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.
Male genitalia (Fig.
Female (Fig.
Characters of female are generally similar to male for the new species. Sexual dimorphism is exhibited in the following aspects. Body size of female is larger than body size of male. The antenna of female is with about 4 antennomeres exceeding apex of elytra (about 5 antennomeres in male). Hairs on the antennae and the dorsal tarsomeres 1—3 of female are bluish, while pale in male. Metallic iridescent sheen on the elytra of female is blue to green, while purple to green in male. Anterior projection of the mesosternal intercoxal process is weakly developed in female, but not developed in male. Middle notch at apex of terminal ventrite of female is deeper than that of male.
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.
The specific name refers to the collecting location, Mount Fanjing.
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31360435) to Shulin Yang. We thank Boyan Li for specimen collecting. We also thank Xianlin Zeng, Qingbei Weng and Qianquan Chen for help with microscope access. Literature assistance provided by Gerard Chemin, Herbert Schmid and Guiqiang Huang was greatly appreciated. We thank Binglan Zhang at the Museum of Biology of Sun Yet-sen University for photographing the type of Anoplophora chiangi Hua & Zhang, 1991. We sincerely appreciate the time Steven Lingafelter, Yasen Mutafchiev and an anonymous reviewer spent reviewing and helping improve this article.