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Cerambycidae) * Pacific Insects 1 (1) : 59-171 July 15, 1959 LONGICORN BEETLES FROM NEW GUINEA, I (Cerambycidae) * By J. Linsley Gressitt BISHOP MUSEUM, HONOLULU This first installment treats the members of the subfamilies Prioninae, Disteniinae, Lepturinae and Cerambycinae from New Guinea, the Aru Islands, and the. Bismarck Archipelago. A few records of specimens from closely neighboring areas are included. In 1951 (Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 44: 1-30, 201-212) I treated some of the material in this group from the United States and Japanese wartime New Guinea collections and from the Sec- cond Archbold Expedition, plus a little other material. In the present revised treatment, material from many sources is included. The largest of these sources is the Bishop Mu­ seum, mainly the material resulting from the program "Zoogeography and evolution of Paci­ fic insects", commenced in 1955. The material from this source treated here was collected by me (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958), E. J. Ford, Jr. (1956), Wm. W. Brandt (1956-58), and E. L. Cassidy (1955-56). About 30 new species represented by unique specimens, and much material not yet mounted, including that taken by D. E. Hardy in 1957, must be treated later. The other sources of material, in approximate order of importance, are: the Third Archbold Expedition (Netherlands Indian-American Expedition), mainly collected by L. J. Toxopeus and J. Olthof; material in both the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, and the Australian Museum, Sydney, taken by C. T. McNamara, and additional material in the South Australian Museum, taken by Rev. L. Wagner, Miss Cheesman and others; the British Museum (Natural History) collections taken by Miss L. Evelyn Cheesman, F. H. Taylor, and others; Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, taken by J. J. H. Szent-Ivany, J. Healy, J. Ardley, J. H. Barrett, Mrs. E. Anderson, Edmund Kanjiri, G. Pritchard and others; American Museum of Natu­ ral History material from the Fourth and Fifth Archbold Expeditions, mostly taken by Geoffrey M. Tate and L. J. Brass, plus some by R.G. Wind; material from the Leiden Mu­ seum additional to that from the Third Archbold Expedition, taken by M. A. Lieftinck, W. Stuber and others; Museum of Comparative Zoology specimens taken by P. J. Darlington, Jr., and Thomas Barbour; California Academy of Sciences material taken by E. S. Ross, S. G. Jewett and T. Aarons; United States National Museum collections of Borys Malkin and K. V. Krombein; Chicago Natural History Museum material taken by Harry Hoogstraal, J. T. Zimmer and K. P. Schmidt; the Hungarian Natural Museum in Budapest taken by Biro; and some miscellaneous small lots from the Lepesme collection, the Paris Museum, the Riksmuseum in Stockholm, the University Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Cornell Uni- * Partial results of the project "Zoogeography and evolution of Pacific insects", supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation; partial results of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1955-56. Owing to circumstances the intended format for this jour­ nal has not been followed in the treatment of the new locality records in this paper. 60 Pacific Insects Vol. 1, no. 1 versity, Ohio State University, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Abbreviations used in the text to indicate place of deposit of specimens, and in the citations for location of type specimens, are as follows: AM—Australian Museum, Sydney AMNH—American Museum of Natural History, New York City AMSTERDAM—Zoological Museum, Amsterdam ANSP—Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia BISHOP—Bishop Museum, Honolulu BM—British Museum (Natural History), London BOGOR—Museum Zoologicum Bogoriensis, Bogor, Java, Indonesia BUDAPEST—Hungarian National Museum, Budapest CAS—California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CORNELL—Cornell University, Ithaca, New York CM—Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, 111. CSIRO—Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, A.C.T. DASF—Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby. DEI—Deutsche Entomologische Institut, Berlin-Friedrichshagen KOBENHAVN—University Zoological Museum, Kobenhavn (Copenhagen) LEIDEN—Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijche Historie, Leiden MCZ—Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts NMV—National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne OHIO—Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio PARIS—Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris SAM—South Australian Museum, Adelaide STOCKHOLM—Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm USNM—United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. ZMB—University Zoological Museum, Berlin It is intended here to list all species known from New Guinea. However, as more ma­ terial constantly coming to hand will make a later review necessary, only pertinent syno­ nymy and citations are given at this time. Some genera recorded from Indonesia or Cape York, but not yet actually known from New Guinea, are included (asterisked) in the keys, and a few species from the Moluccas, Cape York Peninsula or the Solomon Islands are in­ cluded in the keys to species (also asterisked). Two hundred and eleven species are keyed. Specimens are in Bishop Museum unless otherwise indicated. I am much indebted to Dr. J. J. H. Szent-Ivany and Dr. M. A. Lieftinck in connec­ tion with this study, and also to the authorities of the institutions listed above, particularly Mr. G. Musgrave, Dr. J. W. Evans, Mr. E. T. Giles, Mr. G. Gross, Mr. A. N. Burns, Mr. E. B. Britton, Dr. P. J. Darlington, Jr., Dr. E. S. Ross, Dr. R. L. Wenzel, Dr. M. A. Cazier, Mr. L. J. Brass, Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, Dr. Z, Kaszab, Dr. L. Tuxen, Dr. A. Descarpentries, and others. I am likewise indebted to Mr. R. T. Simon Thomas, Dr. D. Metselaar, Mr. J. van den Assem, Mr. L. Bridgeland, Mr. Gordon Dun, Mr. John Ardley, Mr. J. H. Barrett, Mr. Jerome Healy, and many others. Mrs. Dorothy Rainwater has prepared the drawings. 1959 Gressitt: Cerambycidae 61 LOCALITIES Since it is intended later to list entomological collecting localities from New Guinea, no space is given to this here. The localities of my 1955 trip have been identified in a published article (Gressitt, 1956, Entomological investigations in New Guinea mountains, Ha­ waiian Ent. Soc, Proc 16: 47-69, map, figs.), and those of my later trips, as well as those of Mr. Ford, Mr. Brandt and Dr. Hardy have been listed in mimeographed reports which are available. It should be pointed out that the term Papua has more than one meaning. In this pa­ per Papua denotes the geographical area comprising the Australian Territory of Papua, or southeastern New Guinea, including the islands off the eastern tip. However, the adjec­ tive Papuan here denotes the Papuan Zoogeographical Subregion, which includes the Mo­ luccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Aru Islands, and the Solomons Islands. It will be noted that the titles of some of the keys include the term Papuan, instead of New Gui­ nea. In such cases Papuan is in the zoogeographic sense. Under the heading "DISTRIBUTION" under each species the area including the type locality is listed first, set off by a semicolon. (See also footnote on first page of article.) ZOOGEOGRAPHY This study in general confirms my view that New Guinea is part of the Oriental Re­ gion as faf as insects are concerned (see my article in Syst. Zool. 5: 11-32, 47, 1956, and Tenth Int. Congr. Ent., Proc 1: 767-773, 1958), although not so distinctly for the subfami­ lies treated here as in the case of the Hispinae as recently reported by me (Nova Guinea, n. s. 8: 205-324, 1957). However, the subfamily Lamiinae indicates for New Guinea a closer relationship with the Oriental Region than do the Prioninae and the Cerambycinae. The subfamily Cerambycinae, particularly, shows more relationship with the Australian fauna than do many other groups of insects in New Guinea. This appears to be in part related to the fact that the subfamily Cerambycinae is dominant in Australia. The Australian fauna is the only major one in which the subfamily Cerambycinae exceeds the sub­ family Lamiinae in representation. In most regions, the subfamily Lamiinae includes from two to five times as many species as does the subfamily Cerambycinae. This is also true in New Guinea, and this fact represents further evidence that New Guinea is Oriental, en- tomologically. It is estimated in the collections at hand, totalling about 1,000 species of longicorns from New Guinea, the Lamiinae number four to five times as many species as the subfamilies treated here combined, and thus proportionately are more than twice as well represented in New Guinea as in Australia. Also, the subfamilies Disteniinae and Leptu- rinae are absent from Australia, though present in New Guinea. The species treated here belong to 76 genera. Twenty-three genera are Australian, 33 are Oriental and 20 are precinctive (endemic) or limited to New Guinea plus parts of eastern Indonesia, the Philippines, the Solomons, Micropolynesia or the Malagasy Subre­ gion. All of these latter genera are of Oriental relationship. There are 53 species belonging to the 23 Australian genera. Thus less than one-third of the genera, and less than one- third of the species, are of apparent Australian derivation. Furthermore, some of the genera which are considered Australian may actually prove to be centered in, or to have evolv­ ed in, the Papuan Subregion. 62 Pacific Insects Vol. 1, no. 1 Of the 203 species from New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Aru Islands treated in this work, 138 are precinctive to New Guinea (including Waigeu, Biak, Japen and the islands just east of Papua). Of these, four are known only from Waigiou, two are limited to Japen, four to islands just east of Papua, and none are limited to Biak.
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