Oreodera howdeni Monné and Fragoso, 1988, Monne and Fragoso, 1988

Wappes, James E. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2019, A new species, new geographical records, and taxonomic notes in Oreodera Audinet-Serville, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), Insecta Mundi 698, pp. 1-11 : 4-5

Oreodera howdeni Monné and Fragoso, 1988

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Oreodera howdeni Monné and Fragoso 1988: 818 ; Hovore 1989: 255 (distr.); Chemsak et al. 1992: 131 (checklist); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 236 (checklist); Monné 1994: 28 (cat.); Julio et al. 2000: 45 (holotype); Martínez 2000: 94 (distr.); Monné 2005: 191 (cat.); Monné and Hovore 2006: 207 (checklist); Swift et al. 2010: 46 (distr.); Monné and Monné 2016: 55 (holotype); Monné 2018: 264 (cat.).

This species was originally described based on 3 females from Colombia. Subsequently, Hovore (1989) recorded it for Costa Rica, and Monné and Giesbert (1994) for Mexico (Veracruz). The holotype female (see photograph at Bezark 2019), and a paratype female were destroyed by the 2018 fire that devas- tated the MNRJ. According to the original description a third paratype female is deposited in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. The male of O. howdeni is illustrated ( Fig. 6 ) and commented on for the first time here. It differs from the female by the longer antennae (2.15 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex at basal third of antennomere VII), and has the last abdominal ventrite flattened and not centrally sulcate. In the female, the antennae are 1.85 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex at basal third of antennomere VIII, and the last abdominal ventrite is convex with a shallow longitudinal, central sulcus in basal half.

Material examined. MEXICO, Chiapas (new state record): Palenque (picking old logs), 1 female, 16.VI.2009, Skillman and Hildebrant col. ( FWSC). BELIZE (new country record), Toledo: BARC San Pedro Columbia (16°16 ′ 43 ″ N / 88°57 ′ 49 ″ W; on dead tree trunks at night), 1 male, 23.IX.2004, P.W. Kovarik col. ( ACMT) .

Figures

Figures 6–9. Oreodera species. 6–7) Oreodera hoaedeni. 6) Dorsal habitus, male. 7) Dorsal habitus, female. 8) Oreodera boucheri, dorsal habitus, female. 9) Oreodera Ʋulgata, dorsal habitus, male.