American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera): Four new species, new records and taxonomic notes
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Heffern, Daniel
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Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
0000-0001-7128-1418
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & toncriss @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7128 - 1418
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Nascimento, Francisco E. L.
0000-0002-5047-8921
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & eribnascimentofl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5047 - 8921
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-22
4933
3
361
378
journal article
7979
10.11646/zootaxa.4933.3.4
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Key to species of
Championa
(adapted from
Noguera & Chemsak 1997
)
1. Elytra with apices bispinose or bidentate; integument shining metallic green; pronotum transversely rugose.................. 2
– Elytra with apices rounded; integument fuscous, opaque; pronotum densely punctate and pubescent.
Mexico
................................................................................................
C. badeni
Bates, 1892
2(1). Elytra with transverse, median, eburneous fasciae............................................................ 3
– Elytra without median eburneous fasciae, markings consisting of pale, appressed pubescence only..................... 10
3(2). Elytra with median eburneous fasciae short, not extending to lateral margins...................................... 4
– Elytra with median eburneous fasciae extending from margins to suture.......................................... 6
4(3). Elytra with one short eburneous fascia...................................................................... 5
– Elytra with two, short, eburneous fasciae on each side and one obliquely transverse, pubescent band at apical third.
Mexico
(
Chiapas
)................................................................
C. chemsaki
Martins & Napp, 1992
5(4). Elytra with oblique eburneous fasciae at middle and an oblique, transverse pubescent band at apical third, a short transverse, pubescent band at basal third at suture, and a sutural pubescent band at basal third.
Mexico
(
Puebla
,
Oaxaca
).................................................................................
C. westcotti
Noguera & Chemsak, 1997
– Elytra with a short, transverse, eburneous fascia, transverse pubescent fasciae absent.
Mexico
(
Veracruz
,
Guerrero
)......
C. ctenostomoides
Bates, 1885
6(3) Pronotum with only one transverse pubescent band.......................................................... 7 – Pronotum with two transverse pubescent bands.............................................................. 9 7(6) Antennae in female not reaching elytral apex.
Mexico
(
Jalisco
)....................
C. aliciae
Noguera & Chemsak, 1997
– Antennae in female surpassing elytral apex................................................................. 8
8(7). Antennomeres VII–VIII, apex of metatibiae and metatarsi with dense white pubescence (pubescence on antennomeres distinctly contrasting with that on VI and IX).
Mexico
(
Nayarit
)...................................
C. zarazagai
sp. nov.
– Antennomeres VII–VIII, apex of metatibiae and metatarsi lacking dense white pubescence (pubescence on antennomeres from VII slightly, gradually denser toward XI).
Mexico
(
Chihuahua
).............................
C. chihuahuaensis
sp. nov.
9(6). Antennomere VII without long and abundant white pubescence ventrally.
Mexico
(
Sinaloa
,
Oaxaca
)......................
............................................................................. ..
C. elegans
Chemsak, 1967
– Antennomere VII with long and abundant white pubescence ventrally.
Mexico
(
Oaxaca
).......
C. santossilvai
Bezark, 2019
10(2). Elytra with a sutural pubescent band only; integument rufo-piceous to metallic violaceous or green.
Mexico
(
Durango
,
Jalisco
)............................................................................
C. suturalis
Chemsak, 1967
– Elytra without a sutural pubescent band, each elytron with a small patch of appressed pubescence at about basal third and an obliquely transverse band near apical third; integument bright metallic green.
Guatemala
...........
C. aurata
Bates, 1880