Nomenclatural changes in North American Phymatodes Mulsant (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Author
Swift, Ian P.
Author
Ray, Ann M.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2448
35
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.294195
c29f5797-e795-4f0f-b4d1-cb03eed3c385
1175-5326
294195
Phymatodes aeneus
LeConte
(Fig. 1)
Phymatodes aeneus
LeConte, 1854:18
.
Type
locality: Between Fort Vancouver and Yokolt Plain, Oregon Territory,
USA
. MCZC
Callidium aeneum
,
LeConte, 1857
:60
The intensely glossy blue sheen of the elytra, femora, and pronotum will immediately distinguish it among western
US
species. Among eastern
US
species, it appears most similar to
P. aereus
, but
P
.
aeneus
can be separated again by the glossy integument; sparsely, finely punctate elytra with longer, sparse, erect setae; as well as having antennomere II less than one-half the length of III, and IV less than the length of III.
Specimens examined:
25, including the
type
of
P. aeneus