Acalolepta
Pascoe
Lamiinae
Acalolepta Pascoe, 1858: 247. Type species: Acalolepta pusio Pascoe, 1858.
Diagnosis
Usually large beetles with long antennae extending well beyond elytral apices. Frontoclypeus rectangular. Eyes large, finely facetted, narrowly separated at frons; eye lobes posteriorly connected by 4–6 rows of facets. Antennal tubercles distant. Antennae without ventral fringe of setae; scape with circular apical carina, distinctly shorter than antennomere 3, extending beyond anterior margin or to middle of pronotum. Pronotum transverse, lateral margin with strong median pointed tubercle; pronotal disc uneven, without defined tubercles. Prosternal process very narrow, arched; procoxal cavity with lateral extension and exposed protrochantin, closed posteriorly. Mesoventrite not projected anteriorly; mesocoxal cavities open to mesepimeron; mesocoxae narrowly separated. Elytra without apparent tubercles. Legs long; protibiae curved inwards, with 2 terminal spurs; mesotibiae with sulcate antennal cleaner; tarsi 4-segmented; pretarsal claws simple, broadly divergent. Abdominal ventrite 2 in male without semicircular sex patches.
Distribution and Biology
Acalolepta is distributed from Japan, China through Southeast Asia to New Guinea, Australia and many Pacific Islands.
Australian Species
acanthias (Pascoe)
Monochamus acanthias Pascoe, 1875: 65.
aesthetica (Olliff)
Monohammus aestheticus Olliff, 1891: 8.
aureofusca (Aurivillius)
Haplohammus aureofuscus Aurivillius, 1917: 28.
australis (Boisduval)
Monochamus australis Boisduval, 1835: 488.
artia (Olliff)
Monohammus artius Olliff, 1891: 9.
argentata (Aurivillius)
Haplohammus argentatus Aurivillius, 1911: 11.
aurosericea (Breuning)
Dihammus aurosericeus Breuning, 1936: 290.
dayremi (Breuning)
Dihammus dayremi Breuning, 1936: 291.
fasciata (Montrouzier)
Lamia fasciata Montrouzier, 1855: 63.
Monochamus captiosus Pascoe, 1866: 298.
Dihammus fasciatus aurivarius Gressitt, 1952: 48.
frenchi (Blackburn)
Monohammus frenchi Blackburn, 1892: 543.
mixta (Hope)
Monohammus mixtus Hope, 1842: 428.
Monohammus vastator Newman, 1847: 1677.
nativitatis (Gahan)
Monochamus nativitatis Gahan, 1888: 540.
ovina (Pascoe)
Monochamus ovinus Pascoe, 1864: 228.
subtruncata (Breuning)
Dihammus subtruncatus Breuning, 1938: 186.
tenuis (Breuning)
Dihammus tenuis Breuning, 1936: 291.
References
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Aurivillius, C. 1917. Results of Dr E, Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 12, Cerambycidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(23): 1–50 pls 1-3.
Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part X. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6(3): 479-550.
Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe pendant les années 1826–1829, sous le commandment de M.J. Dumont-D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'ocean Pacifique. Part 2 Coléoptères et autres ordres. Paris : Tastu vii 716 pp.
Breuning, E. 1936. Novae species Cerambycidarum V. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Embrik Strand, Riga 1: 274–325.
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Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430.
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Pascoe, F.P. 1875. Notes on Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species.—Part III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 15(85): 59-73, pl.viii.
