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
Paracleodoxus simillimus
Monné & Monné
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 4
)
Description. Female.
Integument dark brown. Body with predominance of appressed dense brownish-gray pubescence. Prothorax and basal ¼ of the elytra covered with grayish-yellow pubescence. Pronotum with short longitudinal blackish fascia on each side of middle. Posterior ¾ of elytra covered with grayish-brown pubescence; apical half with narrow longitudinal fascia of dark-brown pubescence, equidistant from suture and lateral margin. Centro-basal crista of elytra, distal half of tibiae, and tarsi covered with dark-brown pubescence. Antennae more than 2 times length of the body, exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 6.
Prothorax with lateral tubercles acute, apex slightly directed behind; pronotum with sparse punctures in middle, and row of coarse punctures on posterior margin. Elytra coarsely and densely punctate on entire surface; centro-basal crista with tuft of moderately long setae on the top; apices obliquely truncated, angles not projected. Fifth urotergite and urosternite rounded at apical margin.
Etymology
. Latin,
simillimus
,
meaning like.
Measurements (mm) female. Total length, 7.3; prothorax length, 1.2; prothorax width, 2.0; elytral length, 5.5; humeral width, 3.7.
Type
material
.
Holotype
, female.
Venezuela
, Mérida: Carbonera (
2300 m
),
15.VI.1975
, C. Bordon col. (
MNRJ
).
Paratype
,
1 female
, same data (
MNRJ
).
Remarks
.
Paracleodoxus simillimus
resembles
P. cineraceus
in general aspect, differing by the blackish fasciae on each side of the middle of the pronotum; the basal ¼ of the elytra contrasting in color with the rest of the surface; and the centro-basal crista with a tuft of black semierect setae on the top. In
P. c i n e r a c e u s
the prothorax is a single color, the basal ¼ of the elytra is the same color as the rest of the surface, and the centrobasal crista lacks semierect black setae on the top.