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Hermerius Newman 1844

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2. Research Associate, Entomology, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  • 3. Quarantine WA, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Level 1, 24 Fricker Road, Perth Airport, WA 6105, Australia
  • 4. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; adam. slipinski @ csiro. au

Description

Key to Australian species of Hermerius (male only)

1. Abdominal ventrites without sexual setal patches......................... H. prionoides

–. Abdominal ventrites 1–4 with sexual patches.... 2

2. Elytra covered with fine, short golden hairs........................................... H. howei

–. Elytra apparently glabrous, at most with very sparse fine hairs near humeral angles................ 3

3. Ventral side of thorax completely covered with long hairs, elytra usually light brown, pronotum much darker.............................. H. impar

–. Ventral side of thorax with short setae, elytra of the same colour as pronotum..................... 4

4. Abdominal sexual patches smaller and flat (Fig. 11D); from NSW and south-eastern QLD.......................................... H. fairmairei

–. Abdominal sexual patches larger and strongly concave on each ventrite (Fig. 11E); from WA and SA..................... H. occidentalis sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Jin, Mengjie, Keyzer, Roger De, Hutchinson, Paul, Pang, Hong & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, A Review Of The Australian Macrotomini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae), pp. 33-96 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3776678

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Biodiversity

Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Hermerius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Newman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hermerius Newman, 1844 sec. Jin, Keyzer, Hutchinson, Pang & Ślipiński, 2020