Apiocephalus licheneus Gahan, 1906

Apiocephalus licheneus Gahan, 1906 View in CoL

Chinese common name: 梨头花天牛 Fig. 2 View Figure 2

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]. View in CoL

Redescription.

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.

Type material examined.

Holotype • male ( NHMUK): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; DEHRA DUN [p]; 1900 / 14 [p]; apiocephalus / licheneus , / Type Gahan [h]; NHMUK 014596631 About NHMUK [p] ’.

Distribution.

India.

Remarks.

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.