Note on the genus Neacanista Gressitt, 1940 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini) Author Huang, Gui-Qiang Author Liu, Bin Author Gouverneur, Xavier text Zootaxa 2015 3981 4 553 564 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.4.6 7f9640f9-c0ec-4c23-9ba9-0de32bc99e6a 1175-5326 241920 D78CE61A-35B6-4213-B278-833CEF1D5BC6 Neacanista Gressitt, 1940 Neacanista Gressitt, 1940 : 182 ; Gressitt 1951 : 518 .— Breuning 1978 : 39 .— Nakamura, Makihara & Saito 1992 : 95 .— Hua, Nara & Yu 1993 : 285 .— Löbl & Smetana 2010 : 210 .— Lin 2014 : 128 . Type species: Neacanista tuberculipenne Gressitt, 1940 . Hoploranomimus Breuning, 1959 : 87 . syn. nov. .— Breuning 1960 : 18 .— Breuning 1978 : 48 .— Löbl & Smetana 2010 : 209 . Type species: Acanthocinus harmandi Pic, 1939 . Paracanthocinus Breuning, 1965a : 52 . syn. nov. .— Rondon & Breuning 1970 : 497 , 508.— Breuning 1978 : 41 .— Hua, Nara & Yu 1993 : 286 .— Löbl & Smetana 2010 : 210 . Type species: Paracanthocinus laosensis Breuning, 1965a . The genera Hoploranomimus and Paracanthocinus have been synonymized with Neacanista based on following characters: 1) head distinctly narrower than prothorax, frons with a narrow and mesial line extending from the base of clypeus up to the apical margin of the pronotum, lower lobes of eyes longer than genae; 2) antennae slender, distinctly longer than body; 3) pronotum transverse, with a tubercle at each side; disc punctured, with a pair of tubercles at sides of middle; procoxal cavities closed posteriorly; 4) elytra elongate, distinctly broader than prothorax at base, gradually narrow from near apical 1/3, truncated and notched apically, marginal angles processed outwards, sutural angles rounded; disc punctured and longitudinally ridged, with a pair of tubercles at base and near scutellum, with a pair of bumps behind the tubercles; 5) mesocoxal cavities closed externally to mesepimera; 6) femora strongly clavate, mesofemora and metafemora pedunculate at basal 1/2, mesotibia with an oblique external preapical groove. Distribution. Bhutan ; China ; Laos ; Thailand . Remarks. Gressitt (1940) mentioned the differences between Neacanista and Acanista Pascoe, 1864 in the original description. Actually, Neacanista is more similar to Trichorondonia Breuning, 1965b , but differs from Trichorondonia by antennomeres I-VIII not fringed with long hairs beneath, and mesotibia with an oblique external groove near apex.