Provisional revision of the genus Odontocera Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). I: exclusions, new rank, synonymies and the description of two new genera
Author
Clarke, Robin O. S.
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Insecta Mundi
2018
2018-06-29
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3708132
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1942-1354
3708132
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Rhinobatesia rugicollis
(
Bates, 1880
)
n. comb.
(
Fig. 35–40
)
Odontocera rugicollis
Bates 1880: 43
;
Monné 2017: 446
(cat.).
Odontocera nevermanni
Fisher 1930: 8
;
Monné 2017: 445
(cat.).
n. syn.
Species concept.
Based on
Bates (1880)
original description and photographs of the male
holotype
(
Fig. 35
), and
Fisher (1930)
description of his
holotype
of
O. nevermanni
(
Fig. 36
), both available on
Bezark (2017)
, and examination of a male and female identified as
O. nevermanni
(
Fig. 37–40
) kindly loaned to the author by EMEC.
Comment.
Fisher stated that his species was described from a single male in which (quote), “Eyes separated from each other on the front by about the width of the labrum.” The author’s male specimen has the eyes separated by about half the width of the labrum, and in his female the space between the eyes is 1/5 narrower than the labrum. Fisher also stated that the length of his specimen was
15 mm
, and its width
3.2 mm
, the quotient length/width = 4.69; close to the author’s female quotient of 4.58; the quotient for the author’s male is 5.16. These data (and other minor ones described by Fisher) indicate that his
holotype
is a female.
Measurements (mm).
1 male
/
1 female
: total length, 15.75/16.95; length of prothorax, 3.00/3.15; width of prothorax, 2.35/2.55; length of elytra, 7.60/8.80; width at humeri, 2.75/3.30.
Specimens analyzed.
MEXICO
,
Veracruz
,
Est. Biol. Los Tuxtlas
,
480 m
,
male
,
13.IV.1986
,
E. Ramirez
col. (
EMEC
202,862).
COSTA RICA
,
Puntarenas
,
Monteverde
,
1300 m
,
female
,
18.V.1986
(
EMEC
202,861)
.