New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
Author
Botero, Juan Pablo
Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
Author
Wappes, James E.
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Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-04-30
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10.5281/zenodo.3670544
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Megacyllene
Casey, 1912
Newman (1840)
described the new genus
Cyllene
for
Cyllene spinifera
Newman, 1840
(now
Megacyllene nebulosa
Laporte and Gory, 1836
) (
Monné 2018
). Subsequently,
Casey (1912)
described
Megacyllene
for
Clytus antennatus
White, 1855
.
Hopping (1932)
disagreed with the Casey concept and placed
Megacyllene
into synonymy with
Cyllene
.
Fisher (1945)
found
Cyllene
Newman, 1840
to be preoccupied by
Cyllene
Gray, 1834 (Mollusca)
and designated
Megacyllene
as a replacement. The genus is restricted to America (New World) (most species are neotropical) and is currently composed of 54 species and two subspecies (
Bezark 2019
;
Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2018
). Recently, the South American species were revised by
Martins and Galileo (2011)
. A new species from west-central
Mexico
(
Nayarit
) is described below.