Aegomorphus aculeatus Buquet

Casari, Sônia A., 2016, Morphology of Immatures of Acanthoderini (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 4139 (1) : -

Remarks on Aegomorphus aculeatus Buquet

Duffy (1960) described the larva of a species that he named as Aegomorphus aculeatus Buquet. According to Antonio Santos-Silva (personal communication), Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet never described a species in Aegomorphus Haldeman, 1847 . The only species described by Buquet in Acanthoderini is Acanthoderes (Acanthoderes) septemmaculata Buquet, 1859 , currently recorded to French Guiana and Brazil (Amapá) ( Monné 2016). According to Duffy (1960) A. aculeatus is recorded from Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil, and he studied 2 specimens: “1 L [larva], 1 I [imago], British Guiana, Bartica District, 27.iii.1957, from log of Ocotea acutangula , E.A.J.D. leg., in coll. B.M.”. Santos-Silva tried to find the imago commented by Duffy, but for the time being, without success. Thus, while the specimen was not found, would not be possible to know if the specimen really belongs to Aegomorphus and/or the true identity of the species. It is important to point out that currently, all species of Aegomorphus occur in North America.