Lingafelteria Nearns and Tavakilian, 2012

Nearns, Eugenio H. & Tavakilian, Gérard-Luc, 2012, A new genus and five new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1860 Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from South America, with notes on additional taxa, Insecta Mundi 2012 (266), pp. 1-23 : 5

Lingafelteria Nearns and Tavakilian , gen. nov.

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Type species. Lingafelteria giuglarisi , sp. nov., here designated.

Description. General form elongate-oblong, small to moderate-sized. Head with frons subquadrate, about 2.5 times width of one lower eye lobe. Eyes with lower lobes large, oblong. Genae transverse, distinctly shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, widely separated; scape gradually expanded to apex; antennomeres III longest. Pronotum subcylindrical, transverse, sides arcuate; disk with feebly elevated tubercles. Scutellum transverse, apex rounded. Elytra attenuate to apices; humeri prominent. Legs moderate in length; femora robust; tibiae expanded apically; metafemora about 1/3 as long as elytra.

Etymology. Lingafelteria is named for Steven Wayne Lingafelter, with appreciation for this friendship and collaboration. Steve has collected extensively in the Neotropics and has contributed greatly to our knowledge of cerambycid beetles. The gender is feminine.

Diagnosis and Remarks. This genus closely resembles Proplerodia Martins and Galileo, 1990 but can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: eyes with lower lobes distinctly taller than genae (lower lobes about as tall in P. goyana Martins and Galileo, 1990 ; slightly taller than gena in P. piriana Martins and Galileo, 2009 ); elytra without thin, longitudinal lines (elytra of P. piriana with 11 thin, longitudinal lines from base to apical 1/3; elytra of P. goyana with thin, longitudinal lines at apical half); and tarsomere V distinctly shorter than I-VI combined (about as long in Proplerodia ).