Epectasis Bates, 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 : 10

Epectasis Bates, 1866

Epectasis was originally described in Pogonocherini for E. attenuata Bates, 1866 (= Saperda juncea Newman, 1840 ), from Brazil (Amazonas). Lacordaire (1872) transferred Epectasis to Estolini, currently a junior synonym of Desmiphorini . Bates (1880) included Epectasis in Ataxiini (currently, equal to Pteropliini ):“I propose to include it in the “groupe” Ptéropliides of the ‘Genera,’ and the genera Epectasis , Amphicnaeia , and Aletretia , which have been hitherto placed in widely different groups.” Aurivillius (1923) included Epectasis in Emphytoeciini , currently under synonymy of Pteropliini . Epectasis remains a problematic genus, with evident different species often being identified as a single species. This is notably true regarding E.juncea . It is possible to note in Bezark (2018) that some species with remarkable differences are being identified as E. juncea . However, it is not the scope of this work to deal with these problems in Epectasis , a genus needing a full revision.