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subspecies

Alosterna tabacicolor toyohara Danilevsky, 2025

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Insecta - insects »  order Coleoptera - beetles »  family Cerambycidae - longhorn beetles »  genus Alosterna »  species Alosterna tabacicolor

Description

Body and prothorax relatively longer than in A. t. hirayamai Fujita, 2018 from Central Honshu (Japan); elytra usually pale in anterior third (about a half of the type series), with smaller and sparser punctation; only 2 males are light along most of elytral surface (darkened laterally and apically); only 1 male with totally black elytra; 1st antennal joint, legs and abdominal apex are always pale.

Size

Body length in males: 5.7-8.0 mm, width: 1,5-1,9 mm; body length in females: 6,7-6,8 mm, width: 1,7-1,9 mm

Distribution

Russian, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk environs, southern Sakhalin

Etymology

Named after old Japanese name of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Toyohara.

Links and literature

EN Danilevsky M.L. (2025): Two new subspecies of Alosterna tabacicolor (DeGeer, 1775) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Far East of Russia, Humanity space. International almanac. 14 (3): 238-245. DOI: 10.24412/2226-0773-2025-14-3-238-245 [as Alosterna tabacicolor toyohara Danilevsky, 2025]

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