Pseudosparna luteolineata Mermudes & Monné, 2009

Mermudes, José Ricardo M. & Monné, Miguel A., 2009, Pseudosparna, a new Neotropical genus of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 2056, pp. 63-68 : 64-65

Pseudosparna luteolineata Mermudes & Monné sp. nov.

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Description. Male. Integument dark brown; prosternum and basal half of femora yellowish. Body with predominance of dark-brown pubescence. Yellow pubescence covering head, antennal segment 4, ventral surface of profemora, and forms a longitudinal vitta on each side of pronotum, which continues along the elytra without reaching apices. Antenna exceeding elytral apices by four segments; segment 3 with sparse setae beneath. Lateral tubercles of prothorax obtuse, each with a shallow, dorsal depression at base. Pronotum with two rows of sparse punctures on basal fourth. Elytra entirely, sparsely setose; elytral apices obliquely truncated, outer angles slightly projected in a stout spine. Protarsi densely fringed with short hairs at sides. Abdomen with urotergite 5 rounded at apex, urosternite 5 semicircularly emarginated.

Female. Similar to male, differing by the protarsi without short hairs at sides, and urosternite 5 dentate at outer angles.

Measurements (mm), male/female. Total length, 6.5–9.0/6.0–8.3; prothorax length, 1.0–1.8/0.9–1.2; prothorax width, 1.0–1.9/1.1–1.5; elytral length, 5.0–6.5/4.8–6.6; humeral width, 1.2–2.0/1.2–1.8.

Etymology. Latin, luteo meaning yellow plus lineata, meaning linear. Allusive to the yellow vittae of pronotum and elytra.

Type material. Holotype. Male, ECUADOR, Pichincha: 47 km S Santo Domingo (Rio Palenque, 250 m). 5.V-25.VI.1985 (S. & J. Peck leg.) ( MNRJ). Paratypes. Same data as holotype, 1 female ( MNRJ), same locality, 4 males, 1 female, 18-30.V.1973 (J. Peck leg.) ( CMNC). Pichincha: 1 km W Namagalito, 1 female, 26.I.2004 (F. T. Hovore leg.) ( CASC). E of Santo Domingo, 1 female, 6-12.V.1990. (W. J. Hanson leg.) ( USUL); 16 km SE Santo Domingo (Tinalandia, 10 m), 1 male, 1 female, 4-14.VI.1976 (S. & J. Peck leg.) ( MNRJ). 47 km E Santo Domingo (Rio Palenque), 1 female, 22-31.VII.1976 (S. & J. Peck leg.) ( CMNC). 15 km E Santo Domingo (Tinalandia, 700 m), 1 male, 23-26.II.1981 (H. F. Howden leg.) ( CMNC). Esmeraldas: San Lorenzo (Boca, 16 m), 1 female, VI.1985 (F. Rodriguez leg.) ( MNRJ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1, Pseudosparna luteolineata Mermudes & Monné sp. nov.; 2, Pseudosparna amoena Mermudes & Monné, sp. nov.; 3, Pseudosparna aragua Mermudes & Monné, sp. nov.; 4, Pseudosparna flaviceps (Bates, 1863), new combination.