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The Prionine Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Prioninae) of Papua Indonesia
by Gerrit Withaar (†)
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In Papua Indonesia the Prioninae are represented by 22 species
Species names which are coloured grey are recorded from New Guinea but no exact locality is known or at least not known from Papua Indonesia yet.
Prioninae
tribus Parandrini
Parandra Latreille, 1804
tribus Macrotomini
Agrianome Thomson, 1864
lorai Gestro, 1893Archetypus Thomson, 1860
Analophus Waterhouse, 1877niger Gahan, 1894
Clinopleurus Lansberge, 1884
arfakianus Lansberge, 1884Gnathonyx Gahan, 1894Cryptobelus Thomson, 1878
gestroi Thomson, 1878Macrotoma Serville, 1832
Olethrius Thomson, 1860
tyrannus Thomson, 1860Omotages Pascoe, 1867
lacordairei Pascoe, 1867
Xaurus Pascoe, 1867bennigseni Lameere, 1912
papuus Lansberge, 1884
Xixuthrus Thomson, 1864granulipennis Komiya, 2000
helleri (Lameere, 1903)
lameerei Marazzi, Marazzi & Komiya, 2006
microcerus White, 1853
ssp. axis Thomson 1877
tribus Prionini
Osphryon Pascoe, 1869
last updated on 5th July 2020
Literature
Gressitt, J.L., 1959. Longicorn beetles from New Guinea, I. Pacific Insects 1(1): 59-171.
Gressitt, J.L., 1984. Systematics and biogeography of the Longicorn Beetle Tribe Tmesisternini. Pacific Insects Monograph 41: 1-263.
Marazzi, G., V. Marazzi & Z. Komiya, 2006. Description of three new species of Xixuthrus from Papua - Nuova Guinea and considerations on genus (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Prioninae). In: Marazzi, M., V. Marazzi & Z. Komiya, 2006. New Xixuthrina from Indo-Australian Region: 10-47. Natura Edizione Scientifiche, Roma.
Wallin, H. & U. Nylander, 2007. A taxonomic revision in the genus Rosenbergia Part. 2. Lambillionea 107(1), suppl. 1: 3-29.
Weigel, A. & G. Withaar, 2006. Notes on the taxonomy of the genera Tmesisternopsis Breuning, 1945 and Tmesisternus Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Tmesisternini), with description of a new genus from Sulawesi. Journal of the Zoological Society Wallacea 2: 67-71.