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 posticalis
Bates, 1881
(
Fig. 1
)
Carphontes posticalis
Bates, 1881
: 172
;
Monné, 2005
: 31
(cat.);
Wappes
et al.
, 2006
: 34
(distr.);
Morvan & Morati, 2006
: 29
(distr.);
Hovore, 2006
: 377
(distr.).
Redescription. Male.
Integument dark brown. Body with predominance of brownish pubescence. Whitishyellow pubescence covers four small comma-like spots on the anterior margin and one on each side of the middle on the posterior margin; a longitudinal fascia in the middle of the scutellum; and a large fascia covering the apical sutural third of the elytra. Antennae and legs with sparse brownish pubescence. Ventral surface covered with grayish pubescence. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at the middle of segment 6.
Prothorax with lateral tubercles acute; pronotum with a row of fine punctures on posterior margin. Elytra rounded at sides, gradually decreasing to apex; finely and moderately densely punctate on entire surface; apices rounded. Fifth urotergite and urosternite with apical margin truncated.
Female. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 8. Fifth urotergite narrowly rounded, with a feeble median notch at the apex; fifth urosternite truncated on the apical margin.
FIGURES 1–4.
1,
Carphontes posticalis
Bates
; 2,
C. paradoxus
sp. nov.
, holotype male; 3.
Paracleodoxus cineraceus
sp. nov.
, holotype male; 4,
P. simillimus
sp. nov.
, holotype female.
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, 2.0–20/2.0–2.2; elytral length, 4.2–4.4/4.2–4.5; humeral width, 2.3–2.4/2.3–2.4.
Material examined
.
Honduras
, Francisco Morazán: Tegucigalpa (
100 m
),
1 female
,
10.VI.1960
, Steinh. leg.
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Trinidad
: Tunapuna,
1 female
,
1.III.1960
, A. & H. Howden leg.
Ve n ez u el a
, Aragua: El Limón (
450 m
),
1 male
,
29.V.1978
, F. Fernández Y. leg. Monagas: Jusepin,
1 female
,
28.IX.1065
, F. Fernández Y. & C. J. Rosales leg.;
1 female
,
24.IX.1966
, F. Fernández Y. & C. J. Rosales leg.
Ecuador
, Napo: Lago Agrio,
1 male
, IX.
X.1977
, J. Escobar leg.
Peru
, Junin, Satipo,
1 male
,
VIII.1941
, A. Maller leg.
Brazil
, Rondônia: Ouro Preto do Oeste,
1 male
,
1 female
,
X.1983
, O. Roppa, J. Becker & B. Silva leg. Espírito Santo: Conceição da Barra (Pedro Canário),
1 female
,
XI.1972
, B. Silva leg. Linhares,
1 female
,
XI.1972
, B. Silva leg. São Paulo: Marília,
1 female
,
1.XII.1945
, H. Zellibor leg. All specimens at
MNRJ
.
Remarks
. Widely distributed in the Neotropical Region, from
Mexico
(Jalisco) to
Panama
,
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Brazil
(Amazonas, Rondônia, Espírito Santo, São Paulo), and
Bolivia
. We add new country records from
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Venezuela
, and
Peru
.