Timbaraba dispar, Monné, Marcela Laura & Solange Napp, Dilma, 2004

Monné, Marcela Laura & Solange Napp, Dilma, 2004, New South American Genus and Species, and Notes on Xenambyx lansbergei (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Torneutini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 58 (4), pp. 509-512 : 510

Timbaraba dispar , new species

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Description. Female holotype. Body with dense, yellowish pilosity throughout, longer on ventral surface; punctation (except on pronotum) fine, dense and shallow. Integument brownish orange variegated with black. Genae shorter than half lower eye lobes. Mandibles finely, sparsely punctate with apices smooth. Antennae with scape, segment 2 and apices of segments 3–10, black; apical half of segment 5 with an ill-defined, not carinate, sensory system at outer surface; scape cylindrical, enlarged apically, somewhat depressed dorsally, almost half as long as segment 3, with punctures deeper and coarser than those of the remaining segments; segment 3 as long as 5, 1.5 times as long as 4; segments 6-10 subequal in length, and about 1/3 shorter than 4; segment 11 appendiculate, 1.5 times as long as 10. Lateral tubercles and anterior rounded projections of prothorax, black. Pronotum with the anterior tubercles and a postmedian spot, black; with coarse punctures deeper than those of elytra, and sparse granules denser at sides of the black spot; one feebly prominent, densely punctate gibbosity on each side near posterior margin. Scutellum black, the pubescence denser on disk. Elytra at sides and around the eburneous callosities, black; pilosity short; apical spines, black. Legs with femora black at apices.

Measurements (in mm). Female holotype. Total length 21.7; prothorax length 3.3; prothorax width 5.2; elytral length 15.8; humeral width 5.8.

Type. Holotype female: Venezuela, Maracaibo , 15.XII.1965, P. Gonzales ( MNRJ).

Figures

Figs. 1–3. 1) Timbaraba dispar new species, female holotype; 2) Torneutes lansbergei Thomson, 1865, female holotype; 3) Xenambyx laticauda Bates, 1879, female (?) holotype.