Provisional revision of the genus Odontocera Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). I: exclusions, new rank, synonymies and the description of two new genera
Author
Clarke, Robin O. S.
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Insecta Mundi
2018
2018-06-29
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10.5281/zenodo.3708132
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1942-1354
3708132
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Odontocroton flavicauda
(
Bates, 1873
)
,
n. comb.
(
Fig. 1–5
)
Odontocera flavicauda
Bates 1873: 40
;
Monné 2017: 443
(cat.).
Odontocera flavicauda
var.
notatisternis
Gounelle 1911: 40
.
Species concept.
Based on
Bates (1873)
original description and photograph of the male
holotype
(
Fig. 1
) made available on
Bezark (2017)
, which compares well with those taken by the author (
Fig. 2-6
).
Comment.
Having studied
Gounelle (1911)
description and photographs of his
Odontocera flavicauda
var.
notatisternis
, the author does not believe it to be a variety of Bates’
O. flavicauda
for the following reasons: they don’t look like each other and they come from disjunct geographical areas, Gounelle’s from the humid Mata Atlântica of east-central
Brazil
(
MG
), Bates’s from the wet forests of southern
Brazil
(
PR
). However, as the author has not had access to the
type
material, nor a topotype to extract the genitalia, the true status of Gounelle’s subspecies will remain in doubt.
Measurements (mm).
9 males
/
2 females
: total length, 11.85–13.50/12.70–14.25; length of prothorax, 1.75–1.95/1.85–2.05; width of prothorax, 1.40–1.60/1.70–1.85; length of elytra, 6.30–7.50/7.20–8.25; width at humeri, 1.70–2.00/1.95–2.30.
Specimens analyzed.
BOLIVIA
,
Tarija
,
21°18
ʹ
S
/
63°30
ʹ
W
,
7 km
W
Villamontes
,
600–700m
,
3–4 km
San Antonio Road
,
Foothill Chaco Forest
, flying to/on flowers of
Croton
sp. A, male
5.I.2008
,
female
,
16.XII.2007
,
Clarke and Zamalloa
col. (
RCSZ
).
Specimens examined.
(all collected by Clarke and Zamalloa).
BOLIVIA
,
Santa Cruz
,
10 km
S
Abapo
,
19°00
ʹ
S
/
63°14
ʹ
W
,
762m
,
Santa Cruz-Yacuiba Hwy
,
Foothill Chaco Forest
, on flowers of
Croton
sp. A, male,
2.I.2008
, (
RCSZ
).
Tarija
,
21°18
ʹ
S
/
63°30
ʹ
W
,
7 km
W
Villamontes
,
600–700m
,
3–4 km
San Antonio Road
,
Foothill Chaco Forest
, on flowers of
Croton
sp. A, 2 males,
14-16.XII.2007
(
RCSZ
),
same data:
male
(
CMNH
),
male
(
EMEC
).
Distribution.
Bates stated that his specimen came from
Paraná
,
Brazil
. The author considers the distribution of this species to be centered on the forests of southern
Brazil
(
PR
, SC),
Bolivia
(TA),
Paraguay
and
Argentina
(MI,
CH
, CO, ER) as recorded by
Di Iorio (2005)
; and records from east central
Brazil
and
Uruguay
require verification.