New Hemilophini, Aerenicini and Calliini from French Guiana, transference and notes on Hemilophini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
Author
Tavakilian, Gérard L.
Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-02-15
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10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.3
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Phoebemima
Tippmann, 1960
Phoebemima
Tippmann, 1960
: 205
;
Monné, 1995
: 36
(cat.);
Martins & Galileo, 1998
: 53
(syn.);
Monné, 2005
: 496
(cat.);
Monné, 2012
: 105
(cat.);
Martins & Galileo, 2014a
: 207
(key);
Monné, 2017
: 436
(cat.).
Tacocha
Lane, 1970
: 399
;
Monné, 1995
: 37
(cat.);
Martins & Galileo, 1993
: 111
; Galileo & Martins, 1996: 233 (rev.).
According to Martins & Galileo (1996),
Aerenicini
differs from
Hemilophini
by the eyes coarsely faceted (finely in
Hemilophini
), and lower eye lobes much longer than gena (at most, slightly longer than gena in
Hemilophini
). Also according to them, Lacordaire separated these tribes based on head: retractile in
Hemilophini
, not retractile in
Aerenicini
. We agree that these separation proposed by Lacordaire is not good and, not rare, entirely false. Galileo & Martins (1996) reported that
Tacocha
Lane, 1970
(described in
Hemilophini
) (=
Phoebemima
Tippmann, 1960
, described in
Hemilophini
) differs from the other genera of
Hemilophini
without humeral carina by the lower eye lobes larger than gena and distance between upper eye lobes equal to width a upper lobe [this is not true, since the distance between upper eye lobes in
Phoebemima
can be notably wider than a lobe as, for example, in
P. ensifera
Tippmann, 1960
–
type
species of the genus]. Also according to them, by this set of features,
Tacocha
resembles
Melzaerenica
Lane, 1976 (Aerenicini)
. However, the authors did not report why
Tacocha
was
Hemilophini
and not
Aerenicini
. Comparing the shape of lower eye lobes and also the shape of the ommatidia, it is not possible to understand the placement of
Phoebemima
in
Hemilophini
, since the eyes are not finely faceted and the lower eye lobes are much longer than gena. According to
Martins & Galileo (2014a)
, when defining
Hemilophini
(translated): “The eyes are finely faceted in nearly all species. In some species (for example,
Phoebe
) the ommatidia are coarser.” All these problems make the differentiation between
Aerenicini
and
Hemilophini
practically impossible, which suggests that they are a single tribe. However, for the time being, it is much more coherent to transfer
Phoebemima
to
Aerenicini
than maintain it in
Hemilophini
, following the concept of Martins & Galileo (1996).