Ampomecyna minor, Ahmed & Barševskis, 2024

Ampomecyna minor sp. nov.

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Type locality. Pakistan, Balochistan Province, Bela , District. Lasbela

Type specimen. HOLOTYPE male, pinned, Original label: “ Pakistan, Balochistan Province, Bela, District Lasbela, 12.vi.2022, Collector, Zubair Ahmed” , HOLOTYPE / Apomecyna minor / Ahmed and Barševskis [handwritten label] ( FUUZM). 26° 13' 37.56" N, 66° 18' 39.96" E GoogleMaps .

Description. Measurement: body length 6.00 mm

Notes on the genus Apomecyna Dejean, 1821 ( Coleoptera : Cerambycidae ) with description of two new …

Body elongate, subcylindrical, grey, flattened dorsally. Head depressed in anterior portion, with thin median line, vertex with coarse punctures. Antenna with elongate basal segment, broad, antennomere 2 small, 3 longer (0.9 mm) than slender antennomere 4 (0.7 mm). Maxillary palp 3 segmented, apical segment longer.

Pronotum grey, subcylindrical, almost quadrate, longer than broad scarcely, anterior margin straight, lateral margin semi rounded, posterior margin truncate, anterior and posterior angles obsolete.

Scutellum small, slightly lobe-like, rounded, elytra parallel, narrow, apices triangular.

67 Elytra dark brown, marked with grey hairs, slightly flattened dorsally, with contiguous and coarse punctures in basal portion, covered with dense, sparse hairs, each elytron with two white patches on mediolateralportions.

Prosternal process narrow, elongate, broad, distinctly wider in basal part. Mesosternal process narrowly triangular, acuminate at apex; metasternum with groove in front of coxal cavities at middle, ventrites smooth, with sparse hairs, fore tibia sinuate internally, narrower proximally and becoming thickened distally.

Male genitalia: Fig. 1 View Fig (b – f).

Differential diagnosis. Apomecyna minor sp. nov. can be distinguished from related A. histrio by the smaller body (the body length of A. histrio starting from 7.00 mm; Biswas