A New Species of the Genus Coptops Serville, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini) from Penghu County, Taiwan [Studies of the Asian Mesosini, VI]

摘要

Coptopspenghuensis sp. nov. is described from Penghu Islands, Taiwan. The Taiwanese species of the genus Coptops Serville, 1835 was first recorded by Schwarzer(1925) as Coptops aedificator (FABRJCIUS, 1793) which has been treated as a misidentification of Coptops japonica BREUNING, 1936 after MlTONO (1940). On the other hand, BREUNING (1936) described C. japonica from Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously in the description, he added Formosa (= Taiwan) as an other locality based on the Pic's collection. Thisspecies is rather common in Taiwan, but never collected from Japan. By this fact, now the type locality of this species is believed to be apparently miss-designation of Taiwan (OHBAYASffl, 1963; Hayashi, 1965; Kusama and TAKAKUWA, 1984; Ohbayashi and NllSATO, 2007). Furthermore, Hayashi (1974) described Coptops kojimai from Taiwan, but it was transferred to the genus Mesosa (Saimia) by himself (hayashi, 1976). Heretofore, only one species of this genus has been known from Taiwan.