Acanthocornis flavus, Monné & Monné, 2011

Monné, M. A. & Monné, M. L., 2011, A new genus and species of Neotropical Anacolini and new distributional records (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Journal of Natural History 45 (29 - 30), pp. 1859-1866 : 1862-1863

Acanthocornis flavus sp. nov.

( Figure 1C )

Description

Female

Integument chestnut, darker in the head, scape and prothorax; yellowish in the antennae, ventral face and legs, scattered yellow pubescence in the elytra, legs and ventrites.

Antennae shorter than body, the apices attaining the apical third of the elytra. Elytra coriaceous, with finely transverse corrugations over the whole surface. Ventrite V with the apex transversely truncated.

Etymology

The species epithet “ flavus ” (Latin for yellow) refers to the prevailing color of the body.

Measurements in mm, holotype female

Total length 21.5; prothorax length 2.6; prothorax width 5.5; elytral length 16.5; humeral width 5.6.

Type material

Male holotype, Brazil, Pará: Melgaço (Caxiuanã), 26.VI.1998, O. Silveira and J. Dias col. ( MPEG) .

Comments

In the species description, most of the characters are described in the generic description.

Figures

Figure 1. (A) Atrocolus guarani sp. nov., male holotype; (B) Atrocolus guarani sp. nov., female paratype; (C) Acanthocornis flavus sp. nov., female holotype; (D) Myzomorphus gounellei Lameere, female.