Protumida insularis, Monné & Wappes, 2014

Monné, Miguel A. & Wappes, James E., 2014, Description of Protumida insularis, a new genus and species of the tribe Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Panama, Insecta Mundi 2014 (374), pp. 1-4 : 2-3

Protumida insularis , new species

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Remarks. As generic characters are applicable to the new species, they are not repeated in the following description.

Description: Male. Antennae longer than body, extending beyond apices by four antennomeres; scape mottled with black glabrous punctures, covered in mostly ashy pubescence; integument slightly darker at apical half of antennomeres IV-XI; antennomere XI appendiculate. Elytra with on oblique post-median line of oval patches of brownish pubescence, from lateral margin to suture at apical third, several longitudinal rows (> ten) of small setose punctures on most of dorsal surface, basal fourth with widely spaced pubescent granules. Fifth urotergite transversely truncated at apex; fifth urosternite rounded in the extremity. Legs with long sparse hairs, denser in the ventral face of meso- and metatibiae.

Female. Antennae extending beyond apices by two antennomeres; antennomere XI not appendiculate. Fifth urotergite transversely truncated at apex; fifth urosternite with distal margin rounded.

Dimensions in mm. (male/female). Total length, 7.1–10.5/6.3–11.5; prothorax length, 1.9–2.6/1.7–2.7; greatest prothorax width, 2.8–4.7/2.5–4.2; elytral length, 5.2–7.5/4.2–7.5; humeral width, 4.3–6.0/3.6–6.3.

Etymology. The name is a reference to Barro Colorado Island, Panama, the locality where most of the specimens in the type series were collected.

Type material. Holotype male, PANAMA: Barro Colorado Island , 21.I.1959, Panama Zool. Exped. (1959), H. S. Dybas col., at light. ( USNM) . Paratypes (29): Panama: Bayano, 20 km W Ipiti, 3 males, 2 females, 20-23.IV.1993, J. Wappes col. ( ACMT). Panama: Barro Colorado Island, 2 males, female, 31.XII.1940, R. W. Cooper col. ( MNRJ), 2 females, 2.I.1941, same collector ( USNM), male, 18-28.IV.1964, W.D. & S. S. Duckworth col. ( USNM), female, 1-9.V.1964, same collectors ( USNM), 3 females, 25-28. III.1965, same collectors ( USNM), male, 3 females, J. A. Griswold Jr. col. ( MNRJ), male, 1934, M. Bates col. ( MCZN), 2 males, female, 1935, same collector ( MCZN), female, 27.II.1963, R. D. Akre col. ( MNRJ), female, 2.III.1963, CW & ME Rettenmeyer col. ( USNM), 2 males, female, 21.III.1963, same collectors ( USNM), male, 20.IV.1963, same collectors ( USNM).

Figures

Figure 1–2. Protumida insularis, n. sp., holotype male, adult habitus. 1) Dorsal view. 2) Lateral view.