Review of the genus Sympagus Bates, 1881 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)
Author
Hovore, Frank T.
Author
Toledo, Víctor H.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1252
49
61
journal article
50581
10.5281/zenodo.173027
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173027
Sympagus monnei
Hovore and Toledo
,
new species
(
Fig. 4
)
Type
material
Holotype
female:
PANAMA
:
Chiriqui:
7 km
SE
Fortuna
Dam,
1200m
, 0
8 May 1993
, Gillogly & Stockwell (deposited in Essig Museum of Entomology Collection, U.C. Berkeley).
Paratype
:
PANAMA
:
1 male
, Bocas del Toro:
15 km
S Punta Prieta,
29 May 1987
, F.T. Hovore (FTH collection), beaten from fallen
Ficus
tree.
Diagnosis
This species most closely resembles
S. favorabilis
in the arrangement of the dorsal pattern, and
S. bimaculatus
in the primarily dark coloration, but differs from these and other known species by the broad dark area across the middle onehalf of the elytra, marked only with a small yellow spot on the lateral margin.
Description
Male: form stout, moderately robust, depressed dorsally; integument redbrown to piceous; body pubescence short, fine, appressed, ashywhite, pale yellow, gray, tan, dark brown and black, some patches with purplish reflections. Head redbrown, front feebly convex, thinly ashywhite pubescent, denser on sides behind eye lobes, vertex thinly ashywhite pubescent, antennae surpassing elytral apices by about 7 segments, dark redbrown, ventral face of scape and apices of segments piceous, scape and second segment thinly ashywhite pubescent. Pronotum dark redbrown, disk thinly ashywhite pubescent with a vaguely defined, median piceous macula, black pubescence on macula with purple reflections, surface impunctate except for scattered punctures in basal impression and at sides above tubercles, sides obtusely tuberculate at basal 1/3; prosternum moderately densely pale pubescent, prosternal process plane between coxae, slightly more than onehalf width of a procoxa, apex expanded behind coxae, cavities closed; mesosternum pale pubescent with fine erect hairs intermixed, mesocoxal process arcuate, twice the width of a mesocoxa; metasternum pale pubescent with fine, dense, erect hairs intermixed, feebly inflated at sides, plane medially. Scutellum broadly rounded, truncate at apex, piceous pubescent with the tip white. Elytra slightly less than twice as long as humeral width, contrasting pattern with basal area broadly redbrown, with tan pubescence, middle onehalf broadly black with purple reflections, sides velvety black with a small yellow macula at middle above epipleura, apical onefourth with a median gray patch behind black area, followed by an irregular yellow fascia, and whitegray apices flecked with black maculae, apices sinuatetruncate, outer angle obtusely dentate, sutural angle rounded. Legs stout, femora strongly clavate, dark redbrown, piceous beneath, thinly clothed with ashywhite pubescence; tibiae dark redbrown, piceous on apical onehalf; tarsi piceous, basal segment whitepubescent dorsally. Abdomen redbrown, densely palepubescent, apical sternite emarginate, angles rounded, apical tergite feebly emarginate. Length:
9.5 mm
.
Female. Similar to male in form and coloration; apical sternite broadly emarginate, apical tergite truncateemarginate at apex. Length:
9.5 mm
.
Etymology
This species is dedicated to our good friend and colleague, Miguel A. Monné, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
, for his many important contributions to our knowledge of the
Cerambycidae
, and especially the tribe
Acanthocinini
.