Description of a new species of Eurysthea, and notes and new records in Cerambycinae and Lamiinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

ABSTRACT

Notes on Eurysthea Thomson, 1861, Smodicum Haldeman, 1847, Smodicum confusum Martins, 1985, and Smodicum clancularium Martins, 1975 are provided. Eurysthea vandenberghei sp. nov. is described from Nicaragua. Enaphalodes antonkozlovi Lingafelter & Santos-Silva, 2018 is recorded for the first time from Panama, and chromatic variations in this species are reported. Smodicum parandroides Bates, 1884 is recorded for the first time from Nicaragua and three Mexican states. Eupogonius sonorensis Wappes & Santos-Silva, 2020 is recorded for the first time from two Mexican states.

KEYWORDS:

• Desmiphorini
• Elaphidiini
• neotropical region
• Smodicini
• taxonomy

Acknowledgments

We express our thanks to Jean-Michel Maes for sending photographs of two specimens illustrated in Maes et al. [24]. The second author wishes to thank Eric van den Berghe (Zamorano University, Honduras), Edward Riley (College Station, Texas) and Richard Cunningham (Show Low, Arizona) for providing specimens. The third author is grateful to the “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo” (FAPESP) for a postdoctoral fellowship (process number 2017/17898-0).

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