Sangaris luteonotata Monné & Monné, 2009

Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2009, Synopsis of the genus Sangaris Dalman in South America (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), with description of two new species and new combinations, Zootaxa 2230, pp. 29-41 : 36-37

Sangaris luteonotata Monné & Monné sp. nov.

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Description. Female. Form elongate, subcylindrical. Integument black. Body pubescence as follows: grayishwhite pubescence on basal third of antennal segments 4 and 6, ante-apical ring on femora, median annuli on tibiae, basal tarsal segments; sides of the prothorax extending behind by epimera and episterna; mesosternum, metasternum, and abdominal sternites. Dense and appressed yellow pubescence covers: an elongate macula at anterior and posterior margins of lower eye lobe, a narrow longitudinal vitta from clypeal suture to the anterior margin of the prothorax, three longitudinal fasciae on the pronotum, one median and one on each side, apical half of the scutellum, each elytron with 8 small rounded or elongate maculae as follows: an elongate basal macula, four rounded maculae on the basal half of the disk, one in the middle of the epipleura, an elongate post-median macula on the disk, and a rounded macula in the apical third. Distal half of the suture with a narrow line of yellow pubescence; apex of the elytra with a transverse fascia of white pubescence.

Antennae exceeding elytral apices by 5 segments, segments 3-11 gradually decreasing in length. Prothorax with sides rounded, an obtuse lateral callosity in the beginning of the posterior third, pronotum with row of punctures on basal fourth. Prosternum with intercoxal process narrow, about 1/4 as wide as one coxa; mesosternum with intercoxal process as wide as one coxa. Elytra with humeri pronounced, humeral angles obliquely rounded, surface very finely and serially punctate, short, suberect black setae arising from punctures. Apices slightly emarginate-truncate, outer angle dentate. Urotergite 5 narrow, elongate, tapering to apex, acuminate; urosternite 5 tapered apically, apex emarginate-truncate.

Measurements (mm), female. Total length, 9.0; prothorax length, 1.6; prothorax width, 2.1; elytral length, 6.5; humeral width, 2.9.

Etymology. Latin, luteo meaning yellow plus notata meaning marks. Alluding to the yellow vittae of pronotum and elytra.

Type material. Holotype. Female, ECUADOR, Napo: Yasuni Research Station (76° 36’ W, 0º 38’ S, 250 m, 17-31.X.1998 (B. K. Dozier leg.). ( USNM).

Comments. Sangaris luteonotata Monné & Monné , new species belongs to group “c” which has the elytra with dorsal setae; prothorax without tubercles or with an obtuse callus, the sides rounded or subparallel. The pattern and coloration of S. luteonotata are similar to those of S. polystigma ( Bates, 1881) , from Colombia and Venezuela, and S. multimaculata Hovore, 1998 from Costa Rica. Sangaris polystigma has 9 maculae on each elytron, the central pair forming a common macula across the suture, whereas in S. luteonotata there are 8 maculae on each elytron and no central pair forming a common macula. Sangaris luteonotata differs from S. multimaculata in the presence of basal annulation only on antennal segments 4 and 6, and in the pattern of distribution of the yellow elytral maculae. In the Costa Rican species, each of antennal segments 3-6 has a pale basal annulation.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 12. 7, Sangaris concinna Dalman; 8, Sangaris sexmaculata Monné; 9, Sangaris octomaculata Aurivillius; 10, Sangaris luteonotata Monné & Monné, sp. nov.; 11, Sangaris luctuosa (Pascoe); 12, Sangaris duplex (Bates).