Psyrassa Pascoe, 1866

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima, Drumont, Alain & Kozlov, Anton Olegovich, 2019, Descriptions, notes and new records in south american Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 59, pp. 1-13 : 1

Psyrassa Pascoe, 1866

Psyrassa was revised by Toledo (2005). After this, seven species were described. Currently, the genus includes 42 species distributed from southern United States of America to northern South America, including Caribbean islands ( Monné, 2018a; Tavakilian & Chevillotte, 2017).

Martins (2005) characterized the South American species of Psyrassa by the prothorax longer than wide, with III antennomere as long as the IV and with an apical spine, blunt‑tipped, almost as long as the antennomere, by the center of the pronotum without tubercles and by the sublinear metafemora. In his phylogenetic study, Lingafelter (1998) characterized the genus by the strong basal pronotal constriction, sparsely punctate, pubescent pronotum, procoxal cavities strongly closed and by the short antennomere III.