Apomecyna saltator Fabricius

Ahmed, Zubair & Barševskis, Arvīds, 2024, Notes on the genus Apomecyna Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of two new species from Pakistan, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 24 (1), pp. 65-76 : 72-73

Apomecyna saltator Fabricius ( Fig.4 )

Material examined: 2 ♀, Umerkot, Tharparkar, Sindh Province, Pakistan. 20.Vii.2019, leg; Zubair. 25° 22' 0" North, 69° 44' 0" East .

Measurement: body length 14.5 mm Coloration: body black, covered with dull brown to white hairs.

Head transverse, small, vertex coarsely punctate with white dense hairs, frons with deep line, clypeus short, broad, labrum extended, plate like, with truncate apex, maxillary palpomere 3 segmented, antennal tubercle raised. Basal antennomere with long and broad, antennomere 2 short and slender, antennomere 3 longer than antennomere 4.

Pronotum scarcely longer than broad, disc convex, with dense coarse elongate ridges and punctures, median part covered with white hairs, lateral margin rounded at middle, deflected at base; elytral shoulders well projected, lateral margins parallel, apices truncated, each elytron with premedian white patch oblique, broad, not close to sutural margin, second median white patch triangularly produced, near to sutural margin, third narrow line of white patch diagonal before apices, surface with coarse punctures and brown to white sparse dense hairs; legs black, covered with brown to white spotted hairs; sternum black, covered with brown to white spotted hairs.

Female genitalia: Spermathecal bulb slightly swollen, extended tube slender, speculum gastrale narrow, elongate, feebly curved before apex.

Note: The species is known from Pakistan ( Löbl & Smetana, 2010).

72 Key to species of Apomecyna of Pakistan

1. Antennomeres 3-4 shorter than remaining segments…………........…..2

- Antennomeres 3-4 longer than remaining segments…………. A. histrio (Fabricius)

2. Body small, 6.0 mm; elytra dark brown with distinct short, narrow, transverse, 2 pairs white patches; aedeagus with median lobe raised than parameres, endophallus sclerites elongate, scarcely curved…... A.minor sp.nov.

- Body distinctly more than 6.0 mm…………….……………………...3

3. Pronotum with narrow ochraceous yellow longitudinal middle band...........………. A.leucosticta (Hope)

- Pronotum without band……..………..4

4. Body length 12.0 mm; body width 3.9; body black with gray to brown dense hairs with greyish to light brown elytral patches; lateral margins of ventrites bears pale triabgular spots; aedeagus with endophallus sclerites hang in middle, connected, make half loop………...…… A. balochicus sp. nov.

- Aedeagus with median struts without half loop; Body black with scarce white to brown hairs somewhere …………...5

5. Body length 14.5 mm; width of the body 4.00 mm; elytral apices truncated; pronotum with a median black spot………..……… A. saltator Fabricius

- Body length 10.00 mm; width of the body 2.2 mm; elytral apices triangular with rounded apex and scarcely raised; pronotum without black spot at middle………... A. fallaciosa .Breuning

Figures

Fig.4. Apomecyna saltator Fabricius. a) Female habitus, b) female spicule with membranous bulb.