Taxonomic Position of the Oriental Species ofMesosa(Mesosa) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini)

Abstract

Twelve oriental mesosine species which had been belonged to the nominotypical subgenus of the genusMesosaLatreille, 1829, are transferred to the subgenusDissosiraPascoe, 1865 of the genusAgelastaNewman, 1842, as follows:A. (D.) perplexa(Pascoe, 1858);A. (D.) columba(Pascoe, 1859);A. (D.) rufa(Breuning, 1935);A. (D.) catenatoidesYamasako and N. Ohbayashi, nom. nov. [replacement name forA. (D.) laosensis(Breuning, 1935) already occupied by Pic (1925)];A. (D.) gardneri(Breuning, 1938);A. (D.) nigropunctata(Breuning, 1938);A. (D.) konoi(Hayashi, 1956);A. (D.) yonaguni(Hayashi, 1962);A. (D.) nigrostictica(Breuning, 1967);A. (D.) siamana(Breuning, 1974);A. (D.) praelongipes(Kusama and Irie, 1976);A. (D.) kumei(Takakuwa, 1991).