Key to Mexican and Central American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, excluding the Caribbean Islands
Author
Monné, Miguel A.
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940.040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & monne @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8825 - 3122
Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Author
Monné, Marcela L.
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940.040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & Fellowship of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico (CNPq.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-24
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Lepturgotrichona
Gilmour, 1957
(
Figs. 20
–
21
)
Lepturgotrichona
Gilmour, 1957: 27
.
Type
species
—
Lepturges stigmaticus
Bates, 1881
(original designation).
Leptrichillus
Gilmour, 1960: 91
.
Syn. nov.
Type
species—
Leptrichillus minutus
Gilmour, 1960
(original designation).
Diagnosis.
Body very flattened dorsoventrally; prothorax with lateral tubercles distinctly acute, placed at the posterior third, the apex directed backward; pronotum without tubercles; elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carina; basal metatarsomere longer than next two together. Number of species currently included: 4;
Mexico
and Central
America
: 2.
Remarks.
Gilmour (1957)
commented on
Lepturgotrichona
: “This genus is closely related to
Lepturges Bates
; but is raised for those species with long or erect elytral setae.” According to
Gilmour (1960)
on
Leptrichillus
: “This new genus is probably most closely allied to
Valenus
Casey
and
Eutrichillus
Bates
from both of which it differs at first glance in the pronotal disc being smooth, without tubercles, amongst other differences, for example from
Eutrichillus
Bates
it also differs in lacking centro-basal elytral tubercles and from
Valenus
Casey
in both pro- and mesocoxae being almost contiguous. Whilst having something of the facies of
Lepturges
Bates
, in differs primarily in the elytra bearing long setae.”
Gilmour (1957)
designated
Lepturges stigmaticus
Bates, 1881
as the type species of
Lepturgotrichona
, and
Leptrichillus minutus
Gilmour, 1960
, as the type species of
Leptrichillus
. However, examination of photographs of the
holotypes
of
Lepturges stigmaticus
and
Leptrichillus minutus
, as well as the original descriptions, shows that these species are synonymous. Accordingly,
Leptrichillus
is a junior synonym of
Lepturgotrichona
.