A new genus and species of Neotropical Anacolini and new distributional records (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
Author
Monné, M. A.
Author
Monné, M. L.
text
Journal of Natural History
2011
2011-08-31
45
29 - 30
1859
1866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.565130
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2011.565130
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Acanthocornis flavus
sp. nov.
(
Figure 1C
)
Description
Female
Integument chestnut, darker in the head, scape and prothorax; yellowish in the antennae, ventral face and legs, scattered yellow pubescence in the elytra, legs and ventrites.
Antennae shorter than body, the apices attaining the apical third of the elytra. Elytra coriaceous, with finely transverse corrugations over the whole surface. Ventrite V with the apex transversely truncated.
Etymology
The species epithet “
flavus
” (Latin for yellow) refers to the prevailing color of the body.
Measurements in mm,
holotype
female
Total length 21.5; prothorax length 2.6; prothorax width 5.5; elytral length 16.5; humeral width 5.6.
Type material
Male
holotype
,
Brazil
,
Pará
:
Melgaço
(Caxiuanã),
26.VI.1998
,
O. Silveira
and
J. Dias
col. (
MPEG
)
.
Comments
In the species description, most of the characters are described in the generic description.