Synopsis of the genus Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville in Bolivia, with descriptions of two new species and new country records (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) Author Monné, Miguel A. Author Monné, Marcela L. text Zootaxa 2010 2542 33 47 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.294457 ede62b89-93f7-48d1-b339-9ace9424d47b 1175-5326 294457 Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 Colobotea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville in Latreille, 1825: 336 (original spelling). Type-species - Saperda cassandra Dalman, 1823 (Duponchel in D'Orbigny, 1846: 120). Colobothea Audinet-Serville, 1835: 69 (emendation). The genus Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 is primarily South American in distribution ( Giesbert, 1979 ). Of the 117 described species, 21 are distributed in Mexico and Central America . Almost 50% of the South American species are known from the Amazon Basin and the Guyanas, with 21 species from southern and southeastern Brazil (Atlantic Rainforest), 3 species common to Bolivia and the Atlantic Rainforest, 2 species from central-western Brazil (Goiás), 9 species from Venezuela and Colombia , and 19 species from Peru and Bolivia . Lingafelter (2004) was one of the first to document the amazing biodiversity of the Bolivian members of Colobothea . Our observations reflect this in that the dominant element is the Amazonian and Peruvian fauna but we have also documented 3 species ( C. emarginata ( Olivier, 1795 ) , C. rubroornata Zajciw, 1962 , and C. simillima Aurivillius, 1902 ) in the Atlantic Rainforest and Bolivia , most of whom are deposited in the Department of Santa Cruz ( Wappes et al. 2006 ). The present paper lists 24 species of Colobothea from Bolivia .