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Partner Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 October 2019 | 11(13): 14780–14783 Note A specimen of a beautful First record of longhorn beetle cerambycid beetle, intact but in Calothyrza margaritifera (Cerambycidae: moribund state, was collected Lamiinae: Phrynetini) from western India ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) in Konkan area (Chiplun, ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Maharashtra, date 25.vii.2018) Vishwas Deshpande 1 & Hemant V. Ghate 2 PLATINUM during monsoon of 2018, by the 1 OPEN ACCESS frst author. A similar specimen was Department of Zoology, Yeshwantrao Chavan Insttute of Science, Behind Collector Ofce, Sadar Bazar, Satara, only photographed, some 200km Maharashtra 415001, India. north, in Pen, Maharashtra a few 2 Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern years earlier (please see htps:// College of Arts, Science& Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411005, India. thebutterflydiaries.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected] (corresponding dsc04976.jpg), but it was not collected; a blog on this author) species, Calothyrza margaritfera, was also foated on the internet. Presence of the same species again in Western Ghats indicated presence of a viable is equally perfect. Westwood’s original diagnosis and populaton of this Cerambycidae member in Konkan descripton is given below verbatm. area. The purpose of this short note is to provide the In the words of Westwood: “Diagnosis: Phryneta of a frst illustrated record of this species from western part velvety brown colour; the sides of the pronotum with two of India. Since the original descripton of the species is white lines and the elytra with six large irregular-shaped quite good, we are only adding some salient points and patches of a pearly white colour; the legs incrassated. additonal illustratons in support. Length of the body one and fourth of an inch. Breadth The beetle was studied under Leica SMZ 6 and of the base of the elytra one half inch. Inhabits Nepal”. photographed using Canon Powershot S50 as described Descripton: “The entre insect is clothed with a fne by Sarode et al. (2018). velvety pile, with the base of the elytra rather coarsely The recent specimen was identfed as a member punctured. The parts of the mouth are very short, the of the Lamiinae tribe Phrynetni (claws divaricate, eyes strongly incised at the base of the antennae, which scape without cicatrix, metasternum of normal length, are rather short and thick, as are also the spines at the metepisterna short) based on classifcaton by von sides of the pronotum. This part of the body has two Breuning (1950). It was further identfed as Calothyrza white lateral lines on each side, and the elytra have six margaritfera (Westwood, 1848) based on keys to the large pearly-white spots, of irregular form, besides two genera / species of Phrynetni by von Breuning (1937). minute white dots. The sterna are simple; and the legs Original descripton of this beetle by Westwood (especially the femora) are thickened. The tps of the (1848), under the genus Phryneta, is short but sufcient elytra are unarmed. The specimens in my collecton, to identfy this species as the colour illustraton provided presented to me by the Rev. F.W. Hope, are smaller than DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.5194.11.13.14780-14783 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B425760C-B705-4B54-9019-82D122C40966 Editor: Eduard Vives, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Terrassa, Spain. Date of publicaton: 26 October 2019 (online & print) Manuscript details: #5194 | Received 01 July 2019 | Finally accepted 07 October 2019 Citaton: Deshpande, V. & H.V. Ghate (2019). First record of longhorn beetle Calothyrza margaritfera (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Phrynetni) from western India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(13): 14780–14783. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.5194.11.13.14780-14783 Copyright: © Deshpande & Ghate 2019. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: Self funded. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: Authors are thankful to Dan Hefern (USA), Norbert Delahaye (France) and Francesco Vitali (Luxembourg) for constant support, comments on images and for providing useful literature on Cerambycidae. We thank Swapnil Boyane for help in photography and preparaton of image plates. We are grateful to the authorites of our respectve insttutons for encouragement and facilites for research work. 14780 First record of Calothyrza margaritfera from western India Deshpande & Ghate A B C D E Image 1. Calothyrza margaritfera: A—Dorsal view | B—Ventral view | C—close up dorsal view of head and pronotum | D—Head in frontal view | E—Head in lateral view. © Hemant V. Ghate. the one fgured, and have the sides of the pronotum other body, dorsally and ventrally (Image 1B), uniformly occupied by a large white oblong patch instead of two dark brown and thickly covered with pubescence. lines, as in Mr. Melly’s specimen”. Head vertcal, typical of Lamiinae; vertex convex Descripton of our Chiplun specimen (female): above with a fne sulcus that extends up to base of All measurements are in mm. Total length 34; antennae; eyes large, deeply emarginated with lower breadth at humeral angles 12; breadth of prothorax at lobe much large and more than twice long as gena (Image spine 11; foreleg: femur 8, tbia, 8, tarsus 6.5; midleg: 1C,D,E), one of the character that separates this species femur 8.5, tbia 9, tarsus 7; hindleg: femur 9, tbia 9, from similar looking C. sehestedt (Fabricius). Frons tarsus 8; antennal segments 1 to 11: 5, 1.5, 5.1, 4.6, 3, squarish, lower lobe of eye partly visible from front. 2.5, 2.5, 2.4, 2,1.5, 1.7 Mandibles strong, curved at tp; labium setose; clypeus Robust, medium size beetle with thick antennal leathery and pale brown. Antenniferous tubercles segments and strong, incrassate femora. Overall colour strong, elevated, slightly divergent, with shallow groove dark brown to blackish with a bilaterally symmetrical in between. Antennae shorter than body, antennomeres patern of thick, yellowish white or white patches of moderately thick, scape without cicatrix. pubescence dorsally; this includes lateral white lines In thorax pronotum broader than long, with on pronotum and large patches on elytra, which do not maximum breadth only slightly less than base of elytra; extend to lateral margin (Image 1 A, C; Image 2A). Entre distnct transverse grooves present near anterior and Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 October 2019 | 11(13): 14780–14783 14781 First record of Calothyrza margaritfera from western India Deshpande & Ghate A B C D Image 2. Calothyrza margaritfera: A—Lateral view showing elytral maculae | B—Mid leg tarsus and claw in dorsal view | C—As in B ventral view | D—Claw. © Hemant V. Ghate. posterior boders; disc elevated, slightly convex above; dense light brown setae underside; claws dark brown, lateral spine strong with broad base and blunt apex; a divaricate (Image 2 B,C,D) median longitudinal, smooth and shining sulcus present Abdomen, as seen ventrally, with frst segment (Image 1C). Prosternum narrow, with rugulose, smooth longest and broad, its anterior tp projectng forward and shining area near anterior margin; prosternal between metacoxae. process slightly elevated between procoxae, fat in The type locality of C. margaritfera is Nepal; von middle but its lateral borders elevated. Prosternal Breuning (1937) mentons ‘Cochinchina’ (sometmes process dilated behind procoxae with its distal part spelled Cochin-China, a colony of former French almost vertcal. Mesosternum with anterior border Indochina, encompassing the Cochinchina region shining and smooth, with half-moon shaped shining and of present southern Vietnam); a recent checklist of sunken area without pubescence; lateral parts rugulose longicorn beetles of India (Kariyanna et al. 2017) punctate. Mesosternal process broad, raised between notes only C. sehestedti (Fabricius, 1798) but not C. mesocoxae and bifd at distal tp. Metasternum broad, margaritfera. A website on Cerambycidae, namely long, with median shining smooth sulcus (Image 1B). ‘Worldwide Cerambycoidea Photo Gallery’ Vitali (2019), Elytra elongate, slightly narrowed posteriorly, rounded however records ‘India, Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand’ at apex; each elytron sparsely but coarsely punctured as distributon of C.