薛氏星天牛 Anoplophora xuei Lin et Wen, 2024
Body length: 22–28 mm. Head: black with moderately long genae, weakly divergent at mandibular articulation so front of head has quadrate appearance. Head glabrous except transverse postclypeus with few long, dark hairs, without such hairs below antennal tubercles. Antennae of males exceed apex of elytra by 4.5 antennomeres; in females by about 3.5 antennomeres. All antennomeres black, without annulations, covered with inconspicuous, fine, and translucent hairs. Blue-grey pubescence under sides of scape, pedicel and extreme base of antennomere 3. Scape with moderate sized, punctate cicatrix. Eye emarginate, lower lobe slightly higher than gena (Fig. 2d). Labium with palpi 3-segmented; apical palpomere weakly inflated at middle. Small sensillum patch present only on apex of terminal labial palpomere. Sensilla present only on apex of apical maxillary palpomere. Labrum trapezoidal and wider at apex than at base, apex densely fringed and with broad, shallow depression at middle. Densely fringed at apex. No calli present at anterior margin. Many small punctures present over outer surface. Anteclypeus membranous, without setae or obvious punctation. Mandible (Fig. 2d) moderate sized, triangular, with inconspicuous patch of white pubescence in shallow triangular outer basal region. Articulation cutting edge sharp, non-serrate and crescent-shaped. Pronotum black without distinct callus or constriction. Thorax: prothorax glabrous except for fringe of short hairs at anterior margin of pronotum oriented anteriorly along margin of occiput of head and a few long, erect hairs scattered on posterior side of lateral spines and elsewhere on pronotum. Lateral pronotal spine stout, thickened at base, with apex short and sharp, directed laterally. Prosternal intercoxal process expanded posteriorly, closing procoxal cavity. Venter (Figs. 1c, 2c) all black with inconspicuous, very fine translucent hairs scattered over surface of most sclerites. Scutellum (Figs. 1a, 2a) glabrous, with broadly rounded posterior apex. Mesosternal intercoxal process with pubescent, developed ventral and anterior projection. Metepisternum without modification. Metasternal notch deep with narrowly transverse apex. Elytron black, completely glabrous except for subtriangular white pubescent spot just behind middle near lateral margin, with leathery surface, and without iridescence. Base of elytra smooth, without granules or punctures. Moderate to strong humeral protuberance forming sinuate elytral base. Legs black with coating of inconspicuous blue-gray pubescence on tibiae and femora. Tarsi with more conspicuous and denser blue-gray iridescent pubescence. Distinct fringed antennal cleaners present on apical half of meso- and metatibia and apical third of protibia. Femora cylindrical, moderate in length; metafemur extending to posterior margin of third abdominal ventrite (Figs. 1c, 2c). Abdomen: black, apex of female terminal ventrite truncate without middle notch, with dense fringe of hairs at margin, interrupted at middle. Apex of male terminal ventrite transverse and just slightly depressed at middle of apex and with moderate fringe (Fig. lc).
体长22-28 mm。头部黑色，颊中等长，上颚关节分开较弱，因此头部前额呈四边形。头部几乎无毛，除了唇基有少量长而深色的毛，触角基瘤下方无毛。雄性触角超过鞘翅末端4.5个节，雌性约3.5节。触角节黑色，没有环状浅色斑纹，覆盖着不显眼的细毛和半透明的毛。柄节和梗节的下沿，第3节的基部有蓝灰色绒毛。柄节具有中等大小的刻点状端疤。复眼深凹，下叶略高于颊。下唇须3节;末节在中部微弱膨胀。感器仅存在于下唇须和下颚须末节的顶端。上唇梯形，端部比基部宽，端部密被条纹，中部有宽而浅的凹陷。末端密布流苏状毛。前缘无愈伤组织。外表面有许多小刻点。前唇基膜质，无刚毛或明显的刻点。上颚中等大小，三角形，在浅三角形外基部有不明显的白色绒毛斑块。咬合处锋利，无锯齿，呈新月形。前胸背板黑色，无明显的愈伤组织或收缩。胸部：前胸无毛，除前缘的短毛边缘和少数长而直立的毛散布在侧突的后侧和其他地方。前胸侧刺突粗壮，基部粗，末端短而尖，朝向外侧。前胸腹板突向后扩张，前足基节窝关闭。腹面全黑，多数腹板表面散布着不显眼的、非常细的半透明毛。小盾片无毛，末端宽圆形。中胸腹板突有绒毛，具有发达瘤突。中胸前侧片未经修饰。后胸腹板后端深凹，前端窄横切。鞘翅黑色，除近侧缘中后方有亚三角形白色绒毛斑点外，完全无毛，表面革质，无虹彩。鞘翅基部光滑，无颗粒或刻点。中度至强肩部突起形成蜿蜒的鞘翅基部。腿黑色，胫节和腿节上有不明显的蓝灰色绒毛。跗节具有更明显和更密集的蓝灰色虹彩绒毛。中足胫节和后足胫节的端半部以及前足胫节的端部三分之一处有明显的流苏触角清洁器。腿节圆柱形，长度适中；后足腿节伸至第三腹板后缘。腹部：黑色，雌虫腹部末节末端截短，无中缺口，边缘有密毛，中部无毛。雄虫腹部末节横向，在末端中部稍凹陷，有中等发达的毛。
分布：广西（资源县）、贵州。
贵州梵净山的正模活体照片（薛国喜拍摄）
文章中的采集地点图片解说有误，由采集人重新解说如下：
梵净山顶，有这个地方，叫做金顶，其实是新金顶，它对面是老金顶。
从这个新金顶往下看，是这样的：
红箭头是老金顶，蓝箭头是往印江方向去的，一直走是山脊，两侧都很陡峭。
那头牛是在山脊路线中部，突出的大石头上看到的。
Diagnosis. Anoplophora xuei sp. nov. is morphologically close to A. leechi (Gahan) in the opaque black color, not very shiny and leathery appearance, black antennae without pubescent annulations, and elytra smooth without raised granules at the base. These characters can differentiate the two species from all other Anoplophora species. However, A. xuei sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from A. leechi (Gahan) by the single white pubescent macula on each elytron, the pronotal lateral tubercles shorter and not curved backwards, the pronotum without a distinct callus or constriction, as well as the much smaller size (22–28 mm vs. 30–42 mm). The male genitalia of the new species differ in the tergite VIII with apex truncate instead of emarginated, and the median struts obviously shorter than half length of entire median lobe (Fig. 10c), while in A. leechi they are subequal to half length of entire median lobe (Fig. 13c).
视差鉴别：Anoplophora xuei sp. nov.薛氏星天牛形态上接近黑星天牛，呈不透明黑色，外观不是很有光泽，革质，触角黑色，无浅色绒毛环，鞘翅光滑，基部无凸起颗粒。这些特征可以将这两个物种与所有其他 星天牛物种区分开来。薛氏星天牛可以很容易地与黑星天牛A. leechi（Gahan）区分开来，每个鞘翅上都有单个白色绒毛斑，前胸侧刺突较短且不向后弯曲，前胸背板没有明显的愈伤组织或收缩，以及更小的体型（22-28毫米VS30-42毫米）。新种的雄性生殖器在tergite VIII第8背板上有所不同，末端截断而不是凹陷，并且中茎突片短于整个中茎的一半长度（图10c），而在A. leechi中，中茎突片约等于整个中茎的一半长度（图13c）。
Etymology. The new species is dedicated to Dr. Guo-Xi Xue (薛国喜), a taxonomist of Hesperiidae in China, who provided the holotype specimen and other longhorned beetles he collected to the corresponding author .
Lin, M.-Y., Wen, D. 2024. A new species of the genus Anoplophora Hope (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Lamiini) from Nanling Priority Area for Biodiversity Conservation. Zootaxa 5528 (1): 710-716. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.46
Anoplophora leechi (Gahan, 1888)
Chinese common name: 黑星天牛
