Vol. 51 No. 6, 2012

Revision of the Reinstated Genus Pachyosa Fairmaire, 1897 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Mesosini)

Junsuke Yamasako^1,* and Nobuo Ohbayashi²

¹Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi, Matsuyama 790-8566, Japan
²Kamimiyada 1334-444, Minamishitaura-machi, Miura City, 238-0101 Japan

Junsuke Yamasako and Nobuo Ohbayashi (2012) The genus Pachyosa Fairmaire, 1897, which had been treated as a synonym of Mesosa (Saimia), is reinstated.  Five species and 1 subspecies distributed in southwestern Japan and Taiwan are included in the genus as follows: P. cervinopicta Fairmaire, 1897, comb. rev.; P. hirtiventris (Gressitt, 1937), comb. nov.; P. kojimai (Hayashi, 1974), comb. nov.; P. atronotata atronotata (Kusama and Irie, 1976), comb. nov.; P. atronotata yamawakii (Hayashi, 1976), comb. nov.; and P. itoi (N. Ohbayashi, 1985), comb. nov.

Key words: Mesosa (Saimia), Endophallus, Taxonomy, Japan, Taiwan.

*Correspondence: E-mail:mesoxxmesosa@hotmail.com