Rhinobatesia rugicollis ( Bates, 1880 ) Clarke, 2018

Clarke, Robin O. S., 2018, Provisional revision of the genus Odontocera Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). I: exclusions, new rank, synonymies and the description of two new genera, Insecta Mundi 637, pp. 1-27 : 18

Rhinobatesia rugicollis ( Bates, 1880) n. comb.

( Fig. 35–40 )

Odontocera rugicollis Bates 1880: 43 ; Monné 2017: 446 (cat.).

Odontocera nevermanni Fisher 1930: 8 ; Monné 2017: 445 (cat.). n. syn.

Species concept. Based on Bates (1880) original description and photographs of the male holotype ( Fig. 35 ), and Fisher (1930) description of his holotype of O. nevermanni ( Fig. 36 ), both available on Bezark (2017), and examination of a male and female identified as O. nevermanni ( Fig. 37–40 ) kindly loaned to the author by EMEC.

Comment. Fisher stated that his species was described from a single male in which (quote), “Eyes separated from each other on the front by about the width of the labrum.” The author’s male specimen has the eyes separated by about half the width of the labrum, and in his female the space between the eyes is 1/5 narrower than the labrum. Fisher also stated that the length of his specimen was 15 mm, and its width 3.2 mm, the quotient length/width = 4.69; close to the author’s female quotient of 4.58; the quotient for the author’s male is 5.16. These data (and other minor ones described by Fisher) indicate that his holotype is a female.

Measurements (mm). 1 male / 1 female: total length, 15.75/16.95; length of prothorax, 3.00/3.15; width of prothorax, 2.35/2.55; length of elytra, 7.60/8.80; width at humeri, 2.75/3.30.

Specimens analyzed. MEXICO, Veracruz, Est. Biol. Los Tuxtlas , 480 m, male, 13.IV.1986, E. Ramirez col. ( EMEC 202,862). COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Monteverde , 1300 m, female, 18.V.1986 ( EMEC 202,861) .

Figures

Figures 31–36. Species of Odontocroton (Group B (ii)) and Rhinobatesia n. gen. 31–34. Odontocroton septemtuberculatus (Zajciw, 1963). 31) Male, dorsal aspect. 32) Male, ventral aspect. 33) Female, dorsal aspect. 34) Female, ventral aspect. 35–36. Rhinobatesia rugicollis (Bates, 1880). 35) Holotype male. 36) Female, holotype of junior synonym Odontocera nevermanni Fisher, 1930.

Figures 37–42. Species of Rhinobatesia n. gen. and Odontogracilis Clarke, 2015. 37–40. Rhinobatesia rugicollis (Bates, 1880). 37) Male, dorsal aspect. 38) Male, ventral aspect. 39) Female, dorsal aspect. 40) Female, ventral aspect. 41–42. Odontogracilis gracilis (Klug, 1825). 41) Male. 42) Female.