The primary types of Bisaltes (Bisaltes) Thomson of the Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São Paulo, with notes and synonymies regarding other species of this subgenus and Bisaltes (Craspedocerus) Aurivillius (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae)
Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Author
Bezark, Larry G.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-13
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Bisaltes
(
Bisaltes
)
pulvereus
(
Bates, 1866
)
(
Figs 1–6
)
Esthlogena pulverea
Bates, 1866: 289
.
Bisaltes pulverea
;
Breuning, 1949: 18
.
Bisaltes posticalis
Thomson, 1868: 111
.
Bisaltes
(
Bisaltes
)
petilus
Galileo & Martins, 2009: 164
.
Syn. nov.
Remarks.
Galileo & Martins (2009)
described
Bisaltes
(
Bisaltes
)
petilus
based on males and females from
Costa Rica
. They compared their new species with
B.
(
B.
)
buquetii
,
B.
(
B.
)
fuchsi
(currently in synonymy with
B.
(
B.
)
buquetii
), and
B.
(
B.
)
fuscoapicalis
Breuning, 1950
. Although
B.
(
B.
)
petilus
is quite similar to these species, especially the former, it was not compared with
B.
(
B.
)
pulvereus
. Comparing the original descriptions of
Esthlogena pulverea
and
B.
(
B.
)
posticalis
with that of
B.
(
B.
)
petilus
, as well as photographs of the two former species with the
holotype
of the latter, we cannot find a reliable difference. The general color of the pubescence is variable, from lighter to darker, and this variation is not related to the geographical distribution. However, the antennal pubescent pattern is very constant, as well as the light elytral pubescent band along the suture, facilitating the identification of the species. Therefore, we synonymize
B.
(
B.
)
petilus
with
B.
(
B.
)
pulvereus
. This species belongs to the group with the lower eye lobes distinctly longer than the genae.
Currently, this species is known from
Costa Rica
,
Panama
,
French Guiana
,
Brazil
(Amazonas,
Pará
,
Rondônia
) (which included the geographical distribution of
B.
(
B.
)
petilus
) (
Bezark 2022b
;
Monné 2022
;
Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2021
).