A taxonomic revision of some species of Mispila Pascoe, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Pteropliini)

ABSTRACT

Sodus tenuevittatus is removed from synonymy with Mispila (s. str.) venosa and considered as bona species: Mispila (s. str.) tenuevittata comb. nov. The following synonymies are proposed: Mispila tenuevittata = Mispila (Dryusa) sonthianae syn. nov. and Mispila (s. str.) tonkinea = Mispila (s. str.) punctifrons syn. nov. New distributional records for M. tenuevittata and M. tonkinea are provided. The lectotypes of M. venosa and M. tonkinea are designated.

KEYWORDS:

• Revalidation
• new synonymies
• lectotype
• new localities

Acknowledgments

We sincerely appreciate Xavier Gouverneur (CXG) for providing the holotype photos of Sodus tenuevittatus Pic, 1930 and Alidus tonkineus, 1925, Zhen-Hua Liu (Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China) for providing the holotype photos of Mispila venosa Pascoe, 1864 and Mispila auguralis, 1878, Keita Matsumoto (BMNH) and Maxwell Barclay (BMNH) for providing the holotype photos of Mispila punctifrons Breuning, 1938, Nobuo Ohbayashi (Miura, Japan) and Junsuke Yamasako (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Japan) for providing the holotype photo of Mispila (Dryusa) sonthianae Breuning, 1963. We are very grateful to Xavier Gouverneur and Qian-Le Lu (College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University) for providing photos and data of M. tenuevittata (Pic, 1930), to Andre Skale (CSG) and Sergi Trócoli (CST) for providing photos and data of M. tonkinea, to Lu Qiu (Mianyang Normal University, Mianyang, Sichuan, China) for donating the specimens of M. tenuevittata, to Ping Zhao (Nanning Normal University, Nanning, Guangxi, China) for donating a specimen of M. tonkinea, to Ping Wang (Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China) and Si-Yao Huang (Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany) for providing literatures.

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Funding

This research was supported by Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Foundation (Qian Science combination Foundation-ZK[2022] general 527#), the Fund Project of the Education Department of Guizhou Province Qian Education Skill [2022]091#, Qian Education Skill [2022]054#,Qian Education Skill [2022]338#; Liupanshui City Science and Technology Bureau [52020-2021-PT-01].