Lingafelteria giuglarisi, Nearns & 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 : 5-7

Lingafelteria giuglarisi , sp. nov.

( Figures 2 a-d)

Description. Male. Length 6.8-11.5 mm (measured from vertex to elytral apices), width 1.9-4.4 mm (measured across humeri). Habitus as in Fig. 2a. General form elongate-oblong, small to moderate-sized. Integument ferrugineous with pale testaceous and tawny pubescence; portions of scape and basal portions of antennomeres III, IV, VI, VIII, X distinctly lighter than remaining segments; lateral margins of pronotum with pale testaceous pubescence; elytra with pale testaceous pubescence extending from humeral angle to apex, forming elongate “Y” pattern.

Head with frons subquadrate, about 2.5 times width of one lower eye lobe (as in Fig. 2c). Eyes with lower lobes large, oblong; narrowest area connecting upper and lower eye lobes about 2 ommatidia wide. Genae transverse, about 1/4 as tall as lower eye lobes.

Antennae about 1.3 times longer than body; antennal tubercles prominent, widely separated; tubercles unarmed at apex; scape gradually expanded to apex; antennomeres III curved, feebly sinuate. Antennal formula based on antennomere III: scape=0.95; II=0.17; III=1; IV=0.76; V=0.59; VI=0.5; VII=0.54; VIII=0.55; IX=0.5; X=0.48; XI=0.45.

Pronotum subcylindrical, slightly wider at base, transverse, about 1.25 times as wide as long, sides arcuate, without lateral protuberances ( Fig. 2a, d); disk with two broad, feebly elevated lateral tubercles; disk densely, finely, shallowly punctate.

Scutellum transverse, apex rounded.

Elytra nearly 2 times as long as width at humeri ( Fig. 2a), nearly 3.75 times as long as pronotal length, nearly 1.5 times broader basally than pronotum at widest (at middle); sides slightly sinuate, distinctly attenuate to apices, apices individually rounded; basal 1/3 of elytra with dense punctation, surface finely, shallowly punctate; humeri prominent, anterior margin arcuate, angle with moderatesized, obtuse tubercle.

Venter with procoxae moderate-sized, globose, not uncate; narrowest area of prosternal process between procoxae about 1/5 as wide as procoxal cavity; apex of prosternal process subtriangular. Mesosternal process about half as wide as mesocoxal cavity; mesosternal process moderately emarginate. Fifth abdominal sternite slightly longer than IV.

Legs moderate in length; femora robust; metafemora clavate apically; tibiae slightly expanded apically; metafemora about 1/3 as long as elytra. Tarsomere V relatively short, about as long as tarsomeres I-II combined.

Female. Unknown.

Type Material. Holotype, male ( Fig. 2 a-d), “ Piste Ristquetout pk 4, 12 November 1993 Guyane [ French Guiana], piégeage lumineux, Marc Thouvenot leg., 1390” ( MNHN). Two paratypes also from French Guiana: one male, “ 29/X/2011, Route d’Apatou pk25, light trap, Thibault Rosant leg.” ( PHDC); one male (disarticulated for morphological study), “ Antecume Pata (Maripasoula), 06/VI/2009, ex larva, P.-H. Dalens leg.” ( PHDC).

Etymology. We are pleased to name this species for Jean-Louis Giuglaris, in appreciation for this collaboration and work on Neotropical Cerambycidae . The epithet is a noun in the genitive case.

Diagnosis and Remarks. This species is distinguished from other members of Onciderini by the combination of the following characters: large eyes, widely separated; scape nearly as long as antennomeres III; pronotum without lateral protuberances; tarsomere V about as long as I-II combined. This species closely resembles species of Proplerodia (see above for discussion). Lingafelteria giuglarisi is described from three male specimens: two specimens were collected at light, the other reared from larva from unidentified girdled branch .