Revision of trachyderines related to Sphaenothecus from North America with description of three new genera, and new species of Lophalia Casey, 1912, Mannophorus LeConte, 1854, and Ischnocnemis Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini)
Author
Eya, Bryan K.
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA
text
Insecta Mundi
2024
2024-07-26
2024
61
1
94
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.14662132
1942-1354
14662132
5671A77B-2ECB-445F-8F61-246A9E442CDE
Paramannophorus
Eya
,
new genus
Type
species.
Ischnocnemis skillmani
Chemsak and Hovore
in
Eya 2010
A new genus
Paramannophorus
is created for
Ischnocnemis skillmani
Chemsak and Hovore
, and the following new combination is proposed:
Paramannophorus skillmani
(Chemsak and Hovore, 2010)
,
new combination
.
Description. Form
small, stout, sides subparallel.
Head
with front short, declivous, mid-cranial sulcus (median line) narrow, canaliculate, extending over from postclypeus to posterior margin of antennal tubercles, each side above postclypeus and below antennal insertions with a small pit, frontoclypeal sulcus transversely excavated in middle between pits; postclypeus declivous, subparallel with front; genae short, narrow, triangular, base of mandibles almost contiguous with anterior margins of lower eye lobes; palpi short, subequal, last segments not expanded, apex truncate or rounded, dorsoventrally flattened, outer margin vaguely impressed; mandibles simple, sides arcuate from base to apex, dorsum with outer edge vaguely impressed; eyes moderately large, finely faceted, upper lobes small, well separated, lower lobes large; antennal tubercles divergent; integument between tubercles impressed; antennae elongate, 11-segmented, 11
th
antennomere slender, vaguely to non-appendiculate.
Pronotum
broader than long, narrower than base of elytra at humeri, sides obtusely angulate; apex narrower than base, apical margin not elevated on dorsum, narrowly constricted behind with lateral collar-like projection absent; base margined with sides broadly constricted; prosternum with intercoxal process level with coxae, narrower than coxal cavities, procoxae wide open behind; mesosternum with intercoxal process lying below top of coxae, gradually declivous anteriorly; posterior-lateral margins lobed and slightly overlapping mesocoxae.
Scutellum
triangular, as broad as long.
Elytra
with longitudinal, glabrous costae or ivory-like vittae; apices truncate, outer angles dentate.
Legs
slender, moderately short; metafemora falling far short of elytral apices in both sexes; metatarsomeres explanate, tarsomere I shorter than tarsomeres II and III combined.
Abdomen
normally segmented.
Etymology.
The name
Paramannophorus
refers to (
Para
-, closely resembling or near) and
Mannophorus
.
Paramannophorus
with the Latinized suffix “-
phorus
” is a masculine genus name.