Escalonia surprise Jin, Ślipiński, Keyzer, and Pang 2017
- Dataset
- Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Jin, Mengjie, Ślipiński, Adam, Keyzer, Roger De, Pang, Hong (2017): Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini). Zootaxa 4277 (1): 67-85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.5
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- genus
- Escalonia
- species
- Escalonia surprise
description
Description. Length 6.5 – 8.4 mm. Body integument pale yellow with dark brown markings on anterior and apical parts of elytra. Ventral side uniformly yellowish brown, shortly setose. Head darker than pronotum, large and flat, with a fine impressed median line extending from base to clypeal suture. Mandible well-developed, turning dark at teeth apices. Eyes large, convex, with deep groove near frons; eyes strongly emarginate near antenna insertion, and weakly emarginate near mandible articulation. Antenna long, in both sexes extending about 2 antennomeres beyond elytral apices. Antennomeres uniformly yellow, scape subequal to antennomere 3. Pronotum transverse, uniformly yellow, weakly constricted in front, with posteriorly bent projections on lateral side; disc finely punctate, glabrous and feebly shiny. Scutellum darker than pronotum, truncate apically. Elytra with random relatively long bristles, bearing three parallel raised costae on basal two thirds of disc; coarsely and deeply punctate except the apices; elytra basically pale yellow as the pronotum, with two dark brown fasciae on each side, and with light separate spots. Legs slender, unicolor, pro- and mid-coxae oval, metafemur with two rows of weak teeth on the ventral side, tarsomere 1 slightly longer than tarsomere 2. Types. Holotype: Queensland: “ ca. 18.10 S 144.45 E, Gulf Development, 40 – 49 km E of Mount Surprise, Qld. 16 Feb 1995, J. Balderson & P. K. Christensen ” (ANIC). Paratypes (9): Queensland: “ 17.20 S 144.57 E, Emu Ck., 27 km SW of Dimbulah, QLD, 25 – 26 Nov. 1981, J. Balderson ” (1, ANIC); “ QLD, Mareeba Dist., Brumby Gully, on Eucalyptus, 4 Jan 81, S. Barker / SAMA Database No. 25 - 039335 ” (1, SAM); “ Australia: N. QLD, 7 km NE of Tolga, 23 xii 1986, Storey & De Faveri, light trap ” (1, QM); “ Australia: N. QLD, 7 km NE of Tolga, Nov 1988, Storey & De Faveri, light trap ” (1, QM); “ Australia: N. QLD, 7 km NE of Tolga, 7 – 21 xi 1988, Storey & De Faveri, light trap ” (1, QM); “ Australia: N. QLD, 7 km NE of Tolga, Dec 1988, Storey & De Faveri, light trap ” (1, QM); “ Cape Tribulation, N. QLD, 24 – 29 xii 1980, R. I. Storey, N. Gough, rainforest ” (1, QM); “ Little Laura R., 15 km NE of Laura, N. QLD, 1 i 1983, R. Storey ” (1, QM); “ Emerald Ck., Mareeba, 19 – 20 Dec 1978, N. QLD, I. C. Cunningham, at light ” (1, QM).
discussion
Remarks. This species differs from the E. loxleyae (McKeown) by the elytral costae 1 and 2 separated, pronotum and median portion of elytra uniformly yellow (Fig. 5 D).
distribution
Distribution (Fig. 6 B). Known only from northern Queensland.
etymology
Etymology. The species name refers to Mount Surprise, a town in northern Queensland, the type locality of this species and is a noun in apposition.