Caraphia Gahan, 1906

Ohbayashi, Nobuo, Lin, Mei-Ying & Yamasako, Junsuke, 2016, Revision of the Caraphiini, New Tribe (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), Zootaxa 4084 (2), pp. 187-217 : 189-190

Genus Caraphia Gahan, 1906

Caraphia Gahan, 1906: 75 (Type species: Caraphia cribrata Gahan, 1906 , by original designation); Aurivillius, 1912: 177 ( Lepturini ); Boppe, 1921: 18, 51 ( Toxotini ); Gressitt & Rondon, 1970: 26, 30 (Xylosteini); Hayashi & Villiers, 1985: 23, fig. 1 (Xylosteini); N. Ohbayashi, 1992: 5 ( Lepturini ); N. Ohbayashi et al., 1992: 90, 445 ( Lepturini ); Hua et al., 1993: 184 (Xylosteini); N. Ohbayashi, 2007: 389 ( Lepturini ); Chou & N. Ohbayashi, 2008: 139 ( Lepturini ). Neosalpinia Matsushita, 1933: 303 (Callidiopsini) (Type species: Neosalpinia lepturoides Matsushita, 1933 , by monotypy); Mitono, 1938: 50; Hayashi, 1950: 62 ( Lepturinae ). (Synonymized with Caraphia by Gressitt & Rondon (1970)). Caraphia (Neosalpinia) : Ohbayashi, 1963: 8.

Noctileptura Chemsak & Linsley, 1984: 281 (Type species: Noctileptura squamosa Chemsak & Linsley, 1984 (by original designation)); Monné, 1995: 116. Syn. nov.

Original description of the genus by Gahan (1906). " Head gradually narrowed behind the eyes, broadly concave between the antennal supports, which are widely separated; front large, oblique, not marked off from the clypeus; the latter produced in front, smooth and membranous near its front border; labrum short, transverse; maxillary palpi a little longer than the labial, last joint fusiform cylindrical; eyes of moderate size, coarsely facetted, emarginate, the lower lobe a little dilated towards both the front and the ventral surface; genae as long as the lower lobe of the eye; gula produced in a short mentigerous process.

Antennae contiguous to the eyes, a little longer or shorter than the body in the female; first joint subcylindrical, scarcely reaching past the head; third and fourth subequal, each slightly longer than the first, but shorter than the fifth or sixth; seventh to eleventh successively shorter; fourth to eleventh slightly compressed, more or less distinctly canaliculated above and below.

Prothorax widest at base, narrowed in front, slightly constricted near base and apex and slightly rounded in the middle at each side. Mesonotum with undivided stridulatory area.

Elytra wider at base than base of prothorax, slightly and gradually narrowed for about three-fourths of their length, then more strongly so to the apex, where each is truncate.

Legs moderately long; femora sublinear, the hind pair much shorter than the abdomen; tibial spurs short; first joint of hind tarsus as long as the second and third united; third joint deeply cleft, the claw joint long, the claws not very widely divergent. Front coxae moderately exserted, angulate outwards, their acetabula closed posteriorly by the approximation of the epimera to the slightly dilated hind end of the rather narrow intercoxal process.

Wings with the first cubital vein bifurcate posteriorly, the second cubital joined by an oblique vein with the first cubital, and by another vein with the first anal, the latter sometimes having a narrow elliptical cell in its course. "

Remarks. K. Ohbayashi (1963) retained Neosalpinia as a subgenus of Caraphia distinguished by having 3rd and 4th antennomeres each shorter than the first. However the ratio of antennomeres varies among the species and cannot be used for separating the subgenera. Meanwhile Chemsak and Linsley (1984) established the genus Noctileptura for two Central American species, but there are no important differences from the Asian genus Caraphia supporting a separate genus. Therefore we hereby synonymize Noctileptura with Caraphia .

The original description of the genus Caraphia by Gahan (1906) is restrictive due to being based on just two species described in the same paper, and it is here expanded as a diagnosis of the new tribe Caraphiini containing single genus Caraphia .