Hippopsis quadrivittata Breuning, 1940

Vlasak, Josef & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2023, Description of a new species of Hippopsis Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville and comments on the identity of H. quadrivittata Breuning (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Agapanthiini), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, pp. 1-7 : 5

Hippopsis quadrivittata Breuning, 1940 ( Fig. 3L)

Hippopsis quadrivittata Breuning, 1940a: 82 .

Remarks: Breuning (1940a) described H. quadrivittata based on a single specimen from Colombia.According to him, the innermost longitudinal yellow pubescent band on elytra is not distinct apically. The photograph of the holotype suggests that this pubescent band was grated. Breuning (1940a) did not clearly report the shape of the elytral apex. He made it clear that there was a short spine on the sutural angle, but the shape of the elytral apex was not provided. In the key to species of Hippopsis by Breuning (1962) this species was included in the alternative of couplet "8″, (translated):"Elytral sutural angle projected in spine″. Based on the photograph of the holotype ( Fig. 3L), the elytral apex is distinctly transverse and concave, with outer and sutural angles spiniform.

Martins & Galileo (2006) included H. quadrivittata in the alternative of couplet"5″, (translated):

“5(3). Elytral apex acuminated and projected, forming a single long spine; apex of metafemora in males reaching apex of abdominal ventrite 1. Peru, Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas), Bolivia...... H.fractilinea Bates,1866

— Elytral apex obliquely truncate and projected in short spine; apex of metafemora in males reaching apex of abdominal ventrite 2. Colombia, Ecuador............................. H.quadrivittata Breuning,1940 ″

However, H. quadrivittata sensu Martins & Galileo (2006) ( Figs.3 A-3K) clearly disagrees with the true H. quadrivittata ( Fig. 3L), which has a different elytral pubescent pattern and a distinctly different elytral apex. See remarks under H. fractilinea .