New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
Author
Botero, Juan Pablo
Author
Santos-Silva, Antonio
Author
Wappes, James E.
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Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-04-30
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10.5281/zenodo.3670544
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Trichoxys
Chevrolat, 1860
Trichoxys
Chevrolat, 1860: 454
;
Thomson, 1861: 219
;
Lacordaire 1869: 63
;
Lingafelter and Wappes 2012: 155
.
Trichoxys
was described by
Chevrolat (1860)
as a subgenus of
Clytus
Laicharting, 1784
. He included 14 species in the group but did not designate a
type
species. Later,
Thomson (1861)
elevated
Trichoxys
to genus level and designated
Clytus
(
Trichoxys
)
bilineatus
Chevrolat, 1860
as
type
species.
Trichoxys
is currently composed of 15 species, all of them recorded for
Mexico
with five of the species extending their known distribution into Central America (
Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2018
;
Bezark 2019
). Recently,
Lingafelter and Wappes (2012)
provided a diagnosis for the genus as follows: “
Trichoxys
Chevrolat
is characterized from other
Clytini
by 1) the abruptly recessed parasutural region of the elytron that starts at the anterior one-third and diverges more widely to the apex where it is approximately one-third of the discal width, and the strongly elevated anterior portion of the mesosternum (appearing abruptly recessed from ventral view) and 2) the evenly rounded pronotum that is distinctly narrower than the elytral base and without calli or lateral asymmetry. All the known species have bold, pubescent patterns on the elytra which are easily diagnostic for each species.” They also placed
Trichoxys ochraetheoides
Linsley,
1935
in synonymy with
T. hirtellus
(
Chevrolat, 1860
)
, described
T. penrosei
as a new species, and provided a key to the species based on their illustrations of elytral patterns.