Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 84. (Budapest 1992)

Danilevsky, M. L.: New species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from East Asia with some new records

combined. - Prothorax about 1.1 times longer than broad, slightly angulate at sides before middle, entirely black dorsally, brownish ventrally. Pronotum densely, very regularly pynctate with fine adpressed pubescence; strongly raised longitudinally along the middle of disc, nearly keeled, without median smooth area. - Elytra about 2.6 times as long as their basal width; yellow, with broad suturai and humeral stripe for entire length which fused apically and near the last fourth; with fine shallow sparse punctation, becoming indistinct apically; at the base punctures two times smaller than spaces between them; pubescence moderately short, suberect, yellow. - Ventral side of the body brown. Legs brown, basal part of all femora, apical parts of tibiae and tarsi yellow. Last abdominal sternite rounded apically. Type material - Holotype, female , labelled as follows: 1st label - Korea: prov. Kanwon: Kumgang-san, Go-song chon, upper reaches of brook below hotel, 30 May, 1970; 2nd label - Hung. Zool. Exp. I. in Korea. No. 69, leg: Dr. S. Mahunka et Dr. H. Steinmann; 3rd label - Pidonia signifera Bat, det. Heyrovsky. (HNHM). Remarks - Pidonia quercus CHEREPANOV differs from this new species first of all in having different punctation. The main distinguishing features of P. quercus are as follows: Pronotum very densely and irregularly punctate, median smooth line present. Female antennae longer than body. Elytra coarsely punctate, puctures larger than spaces between them. Black stripes of elytra interrupted near apices by transverse yellow band which reaches their lateral borders. Pronotum never entirely black but with reddish anterior and posterior borders. Ventral parts of meso and metathorax black. Lateral parts of abdominal sterna with black spots. Last sternite emarginated apically. Many features of the new species are similar to P. gibbicollis (BLESSIG, 1873), but elytral punctation in P. gibbicollis is also denser, the black elytral stripe is never conjugated and the latter species is always bigger. The differently coloured Pidonia signifera (BATES, 1884) and P. amurensis Pic, 1900 also differ in lacking the longitudinally raised area of pronotum. Pseudallosterna elegantula (KRAATZ, 1879), comb. n. Grammoptera elegantula KRAATZ, 1879. Leptura misella BATES, 1884, syn. n. Pseudallosterna orientális PLAVILSTSHIKOV, 1934. I managed to study two syntypes (male and female) of this species in the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut in Eberswalde. It was found that these specimens were conspecific with Pseudallosterna misella (BATES, 1884). So P. elengatula (KRAATZ) = P. misella (BATES), syn. n. Remarks - N. N. PLAVILSTSHIKOV (1936) placed under the name "Allosterna elegantula" some colour forms of Alostema tabacicolor bivittis (MOTSCHULSKY, 1860) and A. I. CHEREPANOV (1979) placed under the same name the Japanese Grammoptera chalybeella BATES, 1884. Allosterna chalybella (erroneous spelling), mentioned by PLAVILSTSCHIKOV (1936) is in reality a species which was later described by me as Allosterna perpera DANILEVSKY, 1988. Previously on the basis of the original description I (DANILEVSKY 1988) mistakenly considered Grammoptera elegantula Bates as a synonym of G. bivittis MOTSCHUI^KY.