Crioprosopus rimosus, ( Buquet, 1840 )

Eya, Bryan K., 2015, Revision of the Genus Crioprosopus Audinet-Serville, and description of three new genera of Trachyderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Zootaxa 3914 (4), pp. 351-405 : 390

Crioprosopus rimosus, ( Buquet, 1840) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 130–133 )

Stenaspis rimosus Buquet, 1840:142 ; 1841:1, pl. 66; White, 1853:78 (Type locality of rimosus , Santa Fé); LeConte, 1880:xxiv.

Crioprosopus rimosus: Lacordaire, 1869:171 ; Gemminger & Harold, 1872:2967 (cat.); Bates, 1880:74; 1885:319; Aurivillius, 1912:458 (cat.); Vogt, 1949:175 (biol.).

Stenaspis splendens LeConte, 1854:441 (Type locality of splendens , USA, Texas); 1858:40 (dist.); 1859:127, pl. 12, fig. 9.

Crioprosopus splendens Lacordaire, 1869:171 ; Leng, 1886:62, pl. 3, fig. 9.

Callona rimosa Thomson, 1878:17 (types); Linsley, 1962:100 (faune, comb. nov); Hovore & Giesbert, 1976:355 (host); Hovore et al., 1987:297 (biol. dist.); Chemsak, Linsley & Noguera, 1992:80 (cat.); Monné, 1994:36 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1993:140 (cat.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996:402 (cat.); Linsley & Chemsak, 1997:354 (hosts); Monné, 2001:63 (cat. hosts); Monné, 2013:723 (cat.).

Redescription. Male: Length, 30–36 mm. Form large; integument brown, femora frequently reddish-orange except base and apex, dorsal surface subglabrous, elytra green with an aeneous luster, disc rugose (or crinkled); ventral surface densely clothed with silvery, appressed pubescence. Head above sparsely punctate and bicarinate with median line extending onto vertex between a swollen area between eyes; palpi short, apical segment of labial and maxillary pair truncate at apices, dorsally impressed; antennal tubercles with apices obtusely angulate; antennae attaining or shorter than elytral apice, scape rugulose, segments with dorsal surface impressed (longitudinally canaliculate) on apical 2/3 of 3rd and on segments 4–5, 3rd segment longer than 1st, 4th segment shorter than 1st, each segment from 5th–7th subequal to 1st, segments 8–10 subequal to or shorter than 1st, 11th longer than 10th. Pronotum dull, broader than long (1.7 x as broad as long), sides obtusely subangulate to rounded, disc coarsely, densely punctate, transversely impressed anteriorly in middle, and median line at base with a smooth, elongate-triangular impunctate area, sides moderately coarsely, densely punctate; prosternum coarsely, densely, contiguously punctate, around coxae densely clothed with white subdepressed hair; mesosternum with sides densely clothed with short, appressed, silvery pubescence. Scutellum brownish to black. Elytra about 2.2 times longer than broad; apices rounded to suture, slightly sinuate externally. Legs with hind femora not attaining elytral apices. Abdomen with 5th sternite subtruncate, apex emarginate medially.

Female: Length, 33–38 mm. Form large, integument black, femora yellowish-orange except base and apex black; antennae reaching beyond middle of elytra, scape finely punctate, carinate on basal ½, 4th segment shorter than 1st, each segment from 5th–7th subequal to 4th, 8th–10th gradually shorter than 7th, 11th longer than 10th and subequal to 4th; pronotum broader than long (1.6 x as broad than long), anterior and posterior margin impressed; prosternum finely, densely punctate at sides, more sparsely punctate at middle. Elytra about 2.1 times longer than broad. Legs with hind femora not extending beyond body. Abdomen with 5th sternite broadly, shallowly rounded at apex, shallowly notched at middle.

Distribution. United States (Central Texas), northern Mexico (Chihuahua).

Materials examined. USA: Texas: Hidalgo Co., 1 mi S Pharr, 15 May 1977, F.T. Hovore (4 males, 4 females); 21 April 1984, Mesquite, D. Heffern (1 female), as pupae, March 1981, em. 15-20 April 1981, R. Turnbow (2 females); 15 April 1979, J.E. Wappes (1 male, 1 female); 12 April 1980, M. Rice (1 female); 2 mi S Pharr, 13 May 1978, F.T. Hovore (1 male); 3 mi S. Pharr, 15 May 1977, E. Giesbert (3 males, 10 females); Pharr, 21 April 1984 (1 male); Brownsville, 22 April 1920, R.D. Camp (1 female); Starr Co. 7–9 mi E. El Sauz, 26 April 1986, J.E. Wappes (1 male); Karnes Co. vic. Ecleto Metz Ranch, 13 April 2000, Wappes & Morris (1 female); McMullen Co. Jct HWY 16 & 624, 1 May 1982, M. Rice (1 male). Materials examined were from: BKEC, CASC, and FSCA.

Note. Crioprosopus rimosus can readily be distinguished from other metallic Crioprosopus by the description of the elytra as “ surface crinkled ” based on Linsley (1962:101). The mesosternal intercoxal process is without obvious projection, and is more or less within the same plane as the ventral surface of the mid-coxae. The abdomen is finely, densely pubescent to the middle, except narrowly glabrous at the apices of segments 1–4.

Figures

FIGURES 122 – 133. Dorsal and Lateral view of Crioprosopus (cont.). 122, 123: Crioprosopus sp. (male, Mex., Quintana Roo, Nuevo X-can); 124, 125: Crioprosopus hondurensis (male); 126, 127: Crioprosopus nieti (male); 128, 129: Crioprosopus nieti (female); 130, 131: Crioprosopus rimosus (male); 132, 133: Crioprosopus rimosus (female).