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0445E1EA00D12D3C7FC75039CDD43C20.text	0445E1EA00D12D3C7FC75039CDD43C20.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apterotoxitiades vivesi Adlbauer 2008	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Cerambycidae</p><p>Apterotoxitiades vivesi Adlbauer, 2008 Figures 1, 2, 3, 4</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Four female and two male specimens with data: South Africa, EC, Hogsback, 1300 m, 7 Sep 2014, R. Perissinotto &amp; L. Clennell leg. (TMSA, ISAM, KAPC, RPPC). Only one male and one female were found still alive, while the other four specimens were already dead, two with soft tissue consumed by spiders.</p><p>Description.</p><p>♀. Length: 10-11.5 mm; width: 3.5-4 mm (n = 4). General habitus as in male (Figure 2), but with shorter antennae and legs and wider elytra (Figures 1-3).</p><p>Coloration. Dark greyish brown, apices of the elytra slightly lighter brown. Palpi, antennae, legs and ventral side light yellow brown. Mandibles light yellow brown, with the exception of the apices which are black.</p><p>Body surface. Whole surface covered in short depressed silky tomentum. Long, thin, hairlike whitish grey bristles present especially on the lateral side of the mandibles, scapus and pronotal sides (Figure 1A).</p><p>Head. Broad with strong, falciform mandibles. Palpi moderately long, terminal segment only very weakly enlarged. Eyes coarsely facetted, strongly protuberant and broadly separated, small, oblique, not emarginate and far behind antennal tubercles. Frons between the eyes broad and flat. Antennae reaching to the second half of the elytra. Antennomeres becoming shorter towards the end, but not very different in length from each other.</p><p>Pronotum. As long as wide with long, rather acute lateral spines pointed strongly obliquely upwards (Figure 1A). Surface like in male (Figure 2). Disc convex in the middle. Unlike in male, the anterior edge is not broader than the posterior.</p><p>Scutellum. Very small, hardly visible, wider than long.</p><p>Elytra. Fused, somewhat broader than in male, widest in the anterior third. Strongly convex, both laterally and dorsally. Slightly over half of the anterior part sparsely punctate. Apices broadly rounded.</p><p>Legs. Long and slender, but shorter than in male (Figures 2 and 3). Coxae large and projecting (Figure 1B).</p><p>Ventral surface. All coxae well separated from each other, especially the metacoxae. The first visible abdominal sternite is the longest, with the following becoming progressively shorter until the fifth visible (Figure 1B).</p><p>Male. A general description is provided in Adlbauer (2008). Only further details of the genitalia, along with photos of whole genitalia as well as tegmen and aedeagus separately are provided here (Figure 4 A–C). Aedeagus with heavily sclerotized acute dorsal lobe bearing an acuminate apex. Ventral lobe with a rounded, weakly truncate apex, much shorter than dorsal lobe, and decidedly less sclerotized. Apophyses long, strap-shaped and constituting more than 50% of total aedeagus length (Figure 4B). Tegmen with relatively long and slender, slightly diverging parameres with apical brushes of very long setae (Figures 4A, C). Presence of sheath-like appendage between the base of the parameres and the "tegmen ring", on both sides.When the aedeagus is in its position inside the tegmen, the apex of the dorsal lobe reaches almost to the apices of the parameres, while the ventral lobe reaches just beyond the point of diversion of the parameres (Figure 4A).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0445E1EA00D12D3C7FC75039CDD43C20	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	Adlbauer, Karl;Bjornstad, Anders;Perissinotto, Renzo	Adlbauer, Karl, Bjornstad, Anders, Perissinotto, Renzo (2015): Description of a new species of Apterotoxitiades Adlbauer, 2008 (Cerambycidae, Dorcasominae, Apatophyseini) and the female of A. vivesi Adlbauer, 2008, with notes on the biology of the genus. ZooKeys 482: 9-19, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8901, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8901
4B18430EEB61F2BBCADB5A71D8FF8B4B.text	4B18430EEB61F2BBCADB5A71D8FF8B4B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apterotoxitiades aspinosus Bjoernstad	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Cerambycidae</p><p>Apterotoxitiades aspinosus Bjoernstad sp. n. Figure 5</p><p>Type .</p><p>Holotype (HT) ♀: RSA, Natal 1500/2000 m [Royal] Nat[al] Nat. Park X/1972 [collector unknown] (NHMO).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>The most obvious difference from Apterotoxitiades vivesi is the total lack of lateral spines on the pronotum. Both sexes of Apterotoxitiades vivesi have pronotum with "langen, zahnförmigen Seitendornen" (Adlbauer 2008). The new species also differs by its greater size (17 mm vs. 10-11 mm in Apterotoxitiades vivesi female), and by the somewhat more elongate body outline.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The word “aspinosus” refers to the lack of lateral spines on the pronotum, which are on the other hand very prominent in the type species, Apterotoxitiades vivesi .</p><p>Description.</p><p>HT ♀. Length: 17 mm; width 5.8 mm. Habitus rather slender, long legged, flightless with fused elytra (Figure 5).</p><p>Coloration. Head and pronotum dark reddish brown, elytra slightly lighter. Legs, antennae and palpi yellow to brownish yellow. Eyes black with bronze lustre.</p><p>Body surface. Head and pronotum finely, but densely punctate/granulate. Elytra with scattered, shallow pit-like punctation, each pit bearing a pale yellowish bristle. Elytra surface with short, curved ± adpressed silky tomentum. The same type of tomentum occurs on palpi, head, scape and pronotum, but there with interspersed long, stiffly erect pale yellowish-hyaline bristles, particularly distinct on anterior part of head and lateral part of pronotum.</p><p>Head. Both labial and maxillary palpi long and slender and with ultimate joints narrowly triangular. Mandibles strong, sickle-shaped with curved, glabrous and shiny apices. Front of head with moderately raised antennal tubercles, and without a longitudinal furrow between them. Eyes small, strongly protuberant, far apart from antennal socket, only sligthly emarginate. Antennae reaching elytral midlength; scapus widened apically; pedicellus almost globular, but shorter than wide. Antennomere 5 of same length as scape, following antennomeres shorter than these and gradually tapering and shortening distally; antennomeres 5-11 with minute, but dense greyish tomentum.</p><p>Pronotum. Shorter than wide (length/width ratio = 0.8) and with posterior margin wider than anterior. Both edges are only weakly thickened or rimmed. Small constriction on anterior end, at about one fifth of the length, otherwise smoothly convex both dorsally and laterally.</p><p>Scutellum. Short, broadly triangular with a broad, slightly thickened black border.</p><p>Elytra . Fused, strongly convex both laterally and dorsally and with evenly rounded apices. Shoulders only weakly marked.</p><p>Legs. Long and slender with only weakly thickened femora; straight tibiae gradually widening apically; tarsi long and slender, especially the metatarsi.</p><p>Ventral surface. Gula glabrous, all other parts finely granulate and rather densely covered in curved, silky, adpressed tomentum as on dorsal side (Fig. 5B). Procoxae strong and conical, separated by a narrow prosternal process slightly widened and truncate at apex. Procoxal cavities more or less circular in outline but antero-laterally with a small and short acute extension. Metasternum narrow with a truncated triangular process (Fig. 5B). Visible abdominal sternites 1-5 with a finely granulate microstructure and progressively narrowing posteriorly. Sternite 5 with a straight to weakly concave truncation apically.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4B18430EEB61F2BBCADB5A71D8FF8B4B	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	Adlbauer, Karl;Bjornstad, Anders;Perissinotto, Renzo	Adlbauer, Karl, Bjornstad, Anders, Perissinotto, Renzo (2015): Description of a new species of Apterotoxitiades Adlbauer, 2008 (Cerambycidae, Dorcasominae, Apatophyseini) and the female of A. vivesi Adlbauer, 2008, with notes on the biology of the genus. ZooKeys 482: 9-19, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8901, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8901
