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The Flat Faced Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Gerrit Withaar

Tmesisternus pseudosuperans Breuning, 1939

synonym:

papuanus Breuning, 1980

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: In Papua only recorded from the "southwestern mountains" but no details are known.

 

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: SW Mountain areas (no details known). Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: BPBM. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Gressitt, J.L., 1984. Systematics and biogeography of the Longicorn Beetle Tribe Tmesisternini. Pacific Insects Monograph 41: 1-263.
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.