Anama Martins, 2005

Galileo, Maria Helena Mainieri, Rosa, Paolo & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2020, Two new replacements names for South American Cerambycinae (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 4834 (2), pp. 298-300 : 298

Urimaso nom. nov. pro Anama Martins, 2005 (nec Newton & Chandler, 1989)

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Anama Martins, 2005: 258 ; Monné, 2006: 165 (cat.); 2012: 20; 2020: 290 (cat.).

Type species. Anama limpida Martins, 2005 , by original designation.

Etymology. The name is in honor of the late Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza; it is a combination of either the first or the first and second letters of each component of his full name. Masculine gender.

Remarks. Walker (1855: 661) described Amana as a new genus in Lepidoptera ( Arctiidae – currently in Epicopeiidae ). Later, Raffray (1890: 113) established the homonym Amana as a new genus in Coleoptera (Pselaphidae) . Due to that homonymy, Newton & Chandler (1989: 32) established Anama as a new replacement name for Amana Raffray , the junior homonym. Although the etymology was not provided by Newton & Chandler, it is evident that their Anama is an anagram of Amana . More recently, Martins (2005: 258) described Anama in Coleoptera ( Cerambycidae , Cerambycinae , Elaphidiini ), for his single new species A. limpida , so inadvertently creating a homonymy with Newton & Chandler’s name. The etymology of the name proposed by Martins comes from the Tupi indigenous language, “anáma”, meaning “relative.” But despite their different etymologies, both names have the same spelling and must therefore be deemed homonyms. Accordingly, here we establish Urimaso as a new replacement name for Anama Martins to resolve the homonym with Anama Newton & Chandler.

The holotype and two paratypes of Anama limpida (now Urimaso limpidus) were destroyed during the fire that devastated the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ) in September 2018. Fortunately, three paratypes survived because they were deposited in the collections of the Museu de Zoologia , São Paulo University (MZSP), and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). We take the opportunity to illustrate a paratype male from MZSP collection ( Fig. 1–4 ). Urimaso limpidus was originally described from Brazil (Amazonas and Mato Grosso), and currently is known also from the Brazilian state of Ceará, and from Panama and French Guiana ( Monné 2020).

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. 1–4) Anama limpida, paratype male: 1) Dorsal habitus; 2) Ventral habitus; 3) Lateral habitus; 4) Head, frontal habitus. 5–8) Alienus curiosus, holotype female: 5) Head, frontal habitus; 6) Dorsal habitus; 7) Ventral habitus; 8) Lateral habitus.