Anoplophora zhiyuani Wang, Xie & Wang, 2025

ZHANG, LIANG, WANG, PING, XIE, GUANGLIN & WANG, WENKAI, 2025, A new species of the genus Anoplophora Hope, 1839 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 5570 (1), pp. 197-200 : 197-200

Anoplophora zhiyuani Wang, Xie & Wang , sp. nov.

( Figs. 1A–D , 2A–E )

Material examined. Holotype (male): China, Yunnan province, Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County (± 平aedzfdz傣dzh治县), Wujiazhai Village (五=寨村), May, 2021, local leg .; Paratype: 1 female, Vietnam, Yên Bái province, May, 2023, local leg .

Distribution. China (Yunnan), Vietnam (Yên Bái).

Description. Male. Length 27.5 mm (measured from vertex to elytral apices), humeral width 10.2 mm (measured across humeri). Body black, clothed with appressed bright bluish, white to bluish-white pubescence, translucent pubescence and black erect hairs, with metallic green luster.

Color and pubescence: Body black, elytra blue-green (bluer) with metallic luster. Head clothed with inconspicuous greyish-white pubescence. Antennae with scape clothed with inconspicuous greyish-white pubescence, with a few moderately long, suberect, blackish setae beneath, antennomeres III–X annulated with greyish-white pubescence at bases, gradually lengthening, and antennomere XI almost entirely covered with whitish pubescence, except middle more or less presents a black annulation. Pronotum fringed with dense reddish short hairs and sparse black hairs on anterior margin, scattered with long black hairs before and after lateral spine; each side of midline decorated with an oval patch of greyish-white pubescence at the centre. Scutellum clothed with dense greyish-white pubescence. Each elytron scattered with about 11 irregularly-sized patches of greyish-white to white pubescence, 4 of which arranged in a longitudinal row along outer margin and another 5 patches arranged in a longitudinal row along suture margin, the largest one before middle, transversely extending from suture margin to center; surface without erect hairs, epipleuron fringed with black short hairs. Ventral surface clothed with dense greyish-white pubescence. Legs clothed with dense greyish-white pubescence; apical half of femur clothed with dense black bristles; tarsus clothed brown pubescence dorsally.

Structure: Head with matte finish, sparsely micropunctate, deeply depressed between antennal insertions. Frons quadrate, slightly bulged, with a distinct median sulcus extending to occiput; vertex rounded, gena somewhat inflated. Eye deeply emarginate, lower lobe taller than wide, slightly shorter than gena. Antennae longer than body, about 2.2 times as long as body, antennal tubercles strongly elevated, scape stout, slightly flat, thickened apically, with a broad cicatrix; antennomere III longest, about 1.5 times as long as scape, antennomeres IV–X successively decreased in length, antennomere XI about as long as V. Pronotum wider than long, lateral spine with base swelling and apex tapering, disc impunctate centrally, sparely and finely punctate laterally, provided with three calli, one of which at the posteromedial portion, distinct and flattened at the top, the other two at the lateral portion, less distinct. Scutellum triangular with rounded apex. Elytra about 1.9 times as long as the width across humeri, with sides subparallel and apex rounded; surface provided with microreticulations and micropunctations, without granules and erect hairs. Mesosternal intercoxal process tuberculate. Ventrites without distinct punctures, first ventrite longest, apex of terminal ventrite nearly straight. Legs moderately long, femur slightly clavate.

Male genitalia: Tergite VIII transverse, slightly emarginate apically, length about 1.3 times as long as wide, clothed with sparse and short setae at sides, and slightly long and dense at middle; spiculum gastrale slightly longer than ringed part of tegmen; spiculum relictum shorter than a half of spiculum gastrale. Tegmen slightly bent in lateral view, parameres moderately long, length 1.1 times as long as width, apex with moderately dense setae; median lobe moderately curved in lateral view, distinctly shorter than tegmen; median struts about half length of median lobe, apex of ventral plate rounded; endophallus long, mostly membranous.

Female. Length 30.4 mm, width 11.5 mm. Similar to male, but elytra blue-green (greener) sheen, body distinctly broader; antennae about 1.5 times as long as body, antennomere III longest, about 1.5 times as long as scape, remaining gradually shorter in length, antennomere XI about as long as VI; pronotum wider than long; elytra about 1.9 times as long as humeral width; ventrite V slightly emarginate apically.

Remarks. The new species is very similar to A. rugicollis Wang, Xie & Wang, 2022 (type locality: China; Vietnam), for the similar lateral pronotal spine and elytral markings. However, it can be easy distinguished from the latter by the pronotum decorated with two distinct oval patches of greyish-white pubescence at the centre, without transverse wrinkles. Additionally, the coloration of the pubescence on the body surface usually greyish-white, antenna without dense bluish pubescence.

At first glance, the new species is also similar to A. albopicta (Matsushita, 1933) (type locality: China) due to the elytral markings and metallic luster in some degree, but can be easily distinguished from it by the pronotum decorated with two distinct oval patches of greyish-white pubescence, and scutellum clothed with dense greyish-white pubescence.

Etymology. The species is named after Mr. Zhiyuan Yin (Beijing, China), in appreciation of his generosity in offering the specimens for description. The Chinese name is designated as Dzũĸk牛.

Figures

FIGURES 1A–D. Habitus of Anoplophora zhiyuani Wang, Xie & Wang, sp. nov., A, B. male, holotype; C, D. female, paratype; A, C. dorsal view; B, D. ventral view; Scale: 10 mm.

FIGURES 2A–E. Genitalia of Anoplophora zhiyuani Wang, Xie & Wang, sp. nov., A–B. tergite VIII with sternites VIII & IX; C–D. tegmen; E. median lobe plus endophallus; A, C. ventral view; B, D. dorsal view; E. lateral view; Scale: 1 mm.