Ecoporanga cooperi, Monné & Monné, 2014

Monné, Marcela L. & Monné, Miguel A., 2014, Synopsis of the genus Ecoporanga Napp and Martins (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Journal of Natural History 48 (39 - 40), pp. 2369-2373 : 2370-2371

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2014.909063
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4607573
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487D4-B07E-FFE6-CF9D-898DFD26A0AB
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Ecoporanga cooperi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Ecoporanga cooperi View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figure 1A View Figure 1 )

Description

Female. Integument of head, prothorax and mesosternum orange-brown. Antennae, legs, metasternum and abdomen black. Scutellum and elytra shiny green with metallic reflections. Head with moderately sparse punctures, more conspicuous on frons. Antennae without setae, attaining elytral apex; scape sparsely punctate; antennomeres III–IV with minute spiniform projection at inferior face of distal extremity and very sparse setae; antennomeres VI–XI covered with dense greyish pubescence. Pronotum sparsely punctate. Sides of prothorax and prosternum smooth, with obsolete longitudinal wrinkles. Mesosternum, metasternum and urosternites covered with whitish pubescence, with silvery reflections. Elytra parallel-sided from base to distal fifth; apex subtruncate, unarmed; surface densely, coarsely punctate, with sparse setae. Femora and tibiae with sparse long setae; mesofemora and metafemora with short, rounded apical projection.

Etymology

The species is named for Mr Martin V. Cooper , British hymenopterist, Herefordshire, UK, who collected the holotype .

Measurements in mm, holotype female

Total length, 7.0; prothorax length, 1.4; prothorax width, 1.0; elytral length, 4.8; humeral width, 1.4.

Type material

Female holotype, Peru, Amazonas: Rodríguez de Mendoza , 1500 m, 16. V .1982, M. Cooper col. ( BMNH) .

Comments

Ecoporanga cooperi sp. nov. is similar to E.achira Napp and Martins, 2006 , which also has unarmed elytral apex. It is distinguished by the antennae and legs black and elytra green with metallic reflections. In E.achira , the antennae and legs are orange and the elytra blue with metallic reflections.