Revision of the genus Carphontes Bates, with the proposal of a new genus, Paracleodoxus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) Author Monné, Miguel A. Author Monné, Marcela L. text Zootaxa 2010 2387 51 56 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275839 88df020a-b518-4963-80b8-f963396cbcab 1175-5326 275839 Carphontes paradoxus Monné & Monné sp. nov. ( Fig. 2 ) Description. Male . Integument reddish-brown. Body with predominance of brownish pubescence. Grayishwhite pubescence covers a narrow longitudinal fascia on each side of the middle of the pronotum, prolonged outwards parallel to the anterior margin; a narrow longitudinal fascia in the middle of the scutellum; and a fascia covering the apical sutural third of the elytra. Antennae and legs with sparse brownish pubescence. Ventral surface covered with grayish-brown pubescence. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at the middle of segment 7. Prothorax with lateral tubercles acute; pronotum with a row of fine punctures on posterior margin. Elytra with sides subparallel, decreasing to apex; finely and moderately densely punctate on entire surface; apices rounded. Fifth urosternite pointed at apex; fifth urosternite with apex semicircularly emarginated. Female. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 8. Fifth urotergite rounded at the posterior margin; fifth urosternite rounded, feebly notched in middle of apex. Measurements (mm) male/female. Total length, 5.7–6.0/5.3–6.4; prothorax length, 1.0–1.1/1.0–1.1; prothorax width, 2.0–2.0/2.0–2.2; elytral length, 4.2–4.4/4.2–4.5; humeral width, 2.3–2.4/2.3–2.4. Type material . Holotype , male. Ve n e z u e l a , Tachira: Carretera Bramón-Delicias ( 1860 m ), 9-11.XII.1980 , J. Clavijo, A. Chacón & J. M. Ayala leg. ( FAUV ). Paratypes , Ven e z u el a , Aragua: Maracay (Rancho Grande, 1100 m ), 1 female , 30.IV.1954 , F. Fernández Y. leg. ( FAUV ); 1 female , 13.XII.1965 , F. Fernández Y. leg.; 1 female , 5.VIII.1968 , J. Maldonado C. leg. ( USNM ); 1 female , 21.XI.1975 , J. Salcedo leg. ( MNRJ ); 1 female , 24.X.1976 , J. L. Garcia leg. ( FAUV ); 1 male , 7.IV.1978 , A. Chacón &. R. A. Clavijo leg. ( MNRJ ); 1 female , 9.V.1978 , A. Chacón leg. ( FAUV ). Remarks . Carphontes paradoxus sp. nov. is very similar in general aspect and coloration to C. posticalis , but the grayish-white pattern on the pronotum consists of a narrow longitudinal sinuous fascia on each side of the middle, rather than the four comma-like spots near the anterior margin and two on the posterior margin, in C. posticalis . Also, the fascia that covers the apical third of the sutural area is narrow in C. paradoxus , and broader and extended farther forward in C. posticalis .