identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
E9158DCA96A456B7858924DCE6A83D8A.text	E9158DCA96A456B7858924DCE6A83D8A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apiocephalus Gahan 1898	<div><p>Genus Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898</p><p>Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898: 42; Gahan 1906: 74 [redescription].</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Apiocephalus punctipennis Gahan, 1898 .</p><p>Redescription.</p><p>Head prolonged, markedly narrowed behind eyes; eyes prominent, coarsely faceted. Antennae longer than body; scape long and curved, thickened apically; antennomere 3 approximately equal in length to antennomere 4 but distinctly shorter than antennomere 5; antennomeres 5–10 gradually decreasing in length. Pronotum strongly narrowed anteriorly, constricted before apex, with two developed lateral spines; disc provided with four protuberances, of which the anterior two are before middle, low, and the posterior two are after middle, strongly ridged. Elytra much broader than pronotum, with sides subparallel in basal two-thirds, thence converging more strongly towards apices which are truncate. Male metatarsomere 1 approximately as long as metatarsomere 2 and 3 combined.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Kenya, India, China (new country record).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>This genus was first found in “ British East Africa ” (now part of Kenya). The second species was discovered in northern India. The third species, to be described below, comes from central China. This scattered distribution suggests that the genus exhibits a continental distribution pattern. It also indicates that with further research, additional new taxa may be discovered across the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E9158DCA96A456B7858924DCE6A83D8A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xie, Guanglin	Xie, Guanglin (2025): Review of the genus Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) with description of a new species. ZooKeys 1226: 77-85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.139148
0A02FBDE6A1651578A46831087BD7ADE.text	0A02FBDE6A1651578A46831087BD7ADE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apiocephalus licheneus Gahan 1906	<div><p>Apiocephalus licheneus Gahan, 1906</p><p>Chinese common name: 梨头花天牛 Fig. 2</p><p>Apiocephalus licheneus Gahan, 1906: 74. Type locality: India (Dehradun); Aurivillius 1912: 177 [distribution]; Duffy 1968: 67 [hosts]; Mukhopadhyay and Biswas 2011: 82 [distribution]; Mamlayya et al. 2014: 5494 [distribution]; Bhawane et al. 2015: 680 [distribution]; Kariyanna et al. 2017: 257 [distribution].</p><p>Redescription.</p><p>Male. Body reddish-brown to blackish-brown, clothed with greyish-white, greyish-yellow and blackish-brown pubescence. Greyish-white pubescence denser on apex of scape, pronotum, elytral humeri, apical fourth of elytra, apex of femora, sides of mesosternum and metepisternum. Pronotum provided with three glabrous black spots at base, of which the middle one near middle is small. Elytra mostly clothed with blackish-brown mixed greyish-yellow pubescence on basal three-fourths, irregularly interspersed with greyish-white pubescent spots. Abdominal ventrites dotted with greyish-white pubescent spots on both sides. Head slightly rugose-punctate, with a pair of small tubercles on vertex between the eyes. Pronotum slightly wider than long between lateral spines, distinctly constricted at about apical fifth, with a coniform spine on middle of each side; anterior two protuberances on disc with anterior slope relatively gentle. Elytra about 1.9 times as long as humeral width, with sides subparallel in basal two-thirds, thence converging more strongly towards apices; surface strongly and closely punctate on basal three-fourths, inconspicuously on apical fourth. Legs long, femora slightly clavate, somewhat constricted apically.</p><p>Type material examined.</p><p>Holotype • male (NHMUK): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; DEHRA DUN [p]; 1900 / 14 [p]; apiocephalus / licheneus, / Type Gahan [h]; NHMUK 014596631 [p] ’.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>India.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>This species differs from A. punctipennis primarily by the denser greyish-white pubescence on the pronotum, the less steep anterior slope of the two anterior protuberances on the disc of the pronotum, and the presence of pubescent black spots on the elytra instead of glabrous black spots.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0A02FBDE6A1651578A46831087BD7ADE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xie, Guanglin	Xie, Guanglin (2025): Review of the genus Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) with description of a new species. ZooKeys 1226: 77-85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.139148
7CDE5F9FB1855A0F8022AD4636088604.text	7CDE5F9FB1855A0F8022AD4636088604.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apiocephalus punctipennis Gahan 1898	<div><p>Apiocephalus punctipennis Gahan, 1898</p><p>Chinese common name: 头花天牛 Fig. 1</p><p>Apiocephalus punctipennis Gahan, 1898: 43. Type locality: Kenya (British East Africa); Aurivillius 1912: 177 [distribution]; Corinta Ferreira and Veiga Ferreira 1959 [catalogue]; Duffy 1968: 67 [larva].</p><p>Redescription.</p><p>Female. Body testaceous to blackish-brown, clothed with off-white, yellowish-brown to greyish-yellow pubescence, with glabrous areas forming black spots. Pronotum clothed with greyish-white pubescence on middle of disc. Elytra clothed with pale yellowish-brown mixed with greyish-white pubescence and decorated with glabrous irregular black patches. Head rugosely punctate, with a median sulcus on vertex and occiput. Pronotum slightly wider than long between lateral spines, at about apical third distinctly constricted, with a coniform spine on middle of each side; anterior two protuberances on disc with rather steep anterior slope. Elytra about 1.8 times as long as humeral width, with sides slightly constricted at the basal third; disc coarsely punctate, with the punctures gradually becoming shallower towards apex. Legs moderately long, with femur slightly clavate.</p><p>Type material examined.</p><p>Holotype • female (NHMUK): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; B. E. Africa. / C. S. Betton. / 98–12. [p]; Apiocephalus / punctipennis / Type / Gahan [h]; NHMUK 014596632 [p] ’.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Kenya.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Although Gahan (1898) did not specify the gender of the type specimen in the original description, its antennal length and abdominal shape indicate that it is female. Additionally, based on the data uploaded by Bezark (2013) on the website “ Cerambycoidea ”, this species occurs in Manyara, Tanzania.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7CDE5F9FB1855A0F8022AD4636088604	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xie, Guanglin	Xie, Guanglin (2025): Review of the genus Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) with description of a new species. ZooKeys 1226: 77-85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.139148
D950883ACD8C5F7EBE494D9B1328B602.text	D950883ACD8C5F7EBE494D9B1328B602.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apiocephalus yangmingae Xie 2025	<div><p>Apiocephalus yangmingae sp. nov.</p><p>Chinese common name: 阳明头花天牛 Fig. 3</p><p>Description.</p><p>Holotype, female. Body length 13.5 mm (from the front of mandible to elytral apex), humeral width 4.5 mm. Body dull yellowish-brown to black, clothed with greyish-white, greyish-yellow to golden yellow pubescence. Head black, clothed with greyish-yellow pubescence, which is thicker and denser on frons, upper half of genae and sides of the vertex; pubescence on sides of the vertex predominantly golden, forming two longitudinal stripes from antennal insertions to occiput. Pronotum black, clothed with dense greyish-yellow pubescence on sides (including lateral spines) and provided with a golden yellow longitudinal pubescent stripe on either side of midline, connected anteriorly but not reaching basal margin posteriorly; the remainder clothed with rather sparse greyish-yellow pubescence. Scutellum blackish-brown, clothed with greyish-white pubescence. Elytra dark brown, clothed with rather thin greyish-yellow to golden pubescence, and adorned with patches of relatively dense greyish-white pubescence; each elytron with a narrow transverse band at extreme base (golden near scutellum), extending inwards slightly behind humerus, then bending obliquely forward, forming an irregular ring; a broad transverse band behind middle, of which anterior boundary indistinct, posterior edge with five faintly visible spots of dense pubescence, each side containing a region of less greyish-white pubescence; an irregular transverse band before apex and a tuft of greyish-white setae at marginal angle. Underside mostly clothed with dense and non-uniformly greyish-yellow pubescence, prosternum nearly glabrous except for intercoxal process; abdominal ventrites with a glabrous blackish-brown spot on each side. Legs mostly dull yellowish-brown, clothed with greyish-yellow pubescence.</p><p>Head prolonged and distinctly narrower than pronotum, featuring a median groove from antennal insertions to upper eye lobes; eyes obviously protruding outward; labrum twice as wide as long, emarginate on apical margin; genae slightly shorter than eye diameter; terminal segment of maxillary palpus prolonged spindle-shaped, with truncate apex. Antennae slightly longer than body, with the distal segment extending beyond the elytral apex; scape long, nearly reaching apical margin of pronotum, and strongly thickened apically; antennomere 3 about as long as antennomere 4 and shorter than antennomere 5. Pronotum slightly shorter than width between lateral spines; apical margin remarkably narrower than basal margin; sides conspicuously constricted at about apical fifth, with lower portion near apical edge distinctly expanded laterally; median spines well developed, blunt apically; disc coarsely and shallowly punctate, with four protuberances, of which the anterior pair before middle are rather low, the posterior pair behind middle are strongly raised, and also with several vague short longitudinal ridges near centre. Scutellum ligulate, slightly concave apically. Elytra about two times as long as width across humeri, subparallel-sided, and arcuately convergent to apices on apical fifth; apices truncate, squarish at outer angles, rounded at inner angles; disc quite uneven, especially at base and apex; surface with extreme base granular-punctate, basal half deeply and closely punctate, apical half more shallowly and sparsely punctate; each elytron provided with an indistinct longitudinal costa. Prosternal process strongly arcuate, narrowed between procoxal cavities, then steeply sloped backwards and dilated apically. Legs long and slender; metafemora not reaching the elytral apex; metatarsomere 1 shorter than the remaining combined.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype, China • female (YZU); Shaanxi, Yangxian (洋县), Huayang town (华阳镇), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=107.49&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=33.640003" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 107.49/lat 33.640003)">Hongshiyao village</a> (红石窑村); 33°38'24"N, 107°29'24"E; alt. 1317 m; 8 May 2018; Guanglin Xie leg.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China: Shaanxi.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The new species is named in honour of Ms Zhou Yangming, the author’s mother, a traditional Chinese woman known for her gentle nature, intelligence, manual dexterity and family values. She passed away in 2022 while the author was visiting the Natural History Museum in London.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the more exposed dorsum of the head and pronotum, both featuring golden yellow longitudinal stripes, more elongate pronotal lateral spines, and different elytral markings.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The new species was collected on an unknown flower, suggesting a flower-visiting habit.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D950883ACD8C5F7EBE494D9B1328B602	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xie, Guanglin	Xie, Guanglin (2025): Review of the genus Apiocephalus Gahan, 1898 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) with description of a new species. ZooKeys 1226: 77-85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.139148
