Epepeotes plorator sanghiricus Breuning, 1938 Fig. 4c, f Epepeotes sanghiricus Breuning, 1938: 183. Type locality: Sanghir [Indonesia]. Epepeotes plorator ssp. sanghiricus Breuning, 1970: 376. Type locality: Sanghir [Indonesia]. Non-type material. 18 specimens. Indonesia (12): Celebes (7 males, 2 female), Borneo (1 male), Macassar (1 female), Koepang (1 female). Country unknown (6): Pascoe collection (6): Macanor (2 males), Mak. (1 female, 3 females). Comments. Subspecies E. p. plorator (Newman, 1842) is different from subspecies E. p. celebensis Aurivillius, 1922 and E. p. sanghiricus Breuning, 1938 by the pronotum and vertex mostly black, with three distinct yellow longitudinal stripes, E. p. celebensis Aurivillius, 1922 is distinguished from E. p. sanghiricus Breuning, 1938 by the pronotum and vertex completely covered with pubescence, the elytra seldom with small spots among the four main black spots, while in E. p. sanghiricus Breuning, the pronotum and vertex is decorated with two inconspicuous black longitudinal strips, sometimes reduced to black spots, the elytra usually is dotted with some small and irregular black spots in addition to the main markings. This subspecies was described twice by Breuning (1938, 1970), the first time as species Epepeotes sanghiricus (type in Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland) and the second time as subspecies Epepeotes plorator ssp. sanghiricus (type in Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France).

Published as part of Xie, Guanglin, Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Wang, Wenkai, 2023, The collection of the genus Epepeotes Pascoe, 1866 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 19-39 in ZooKeys 1184 on page 19, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1184.111728