Aneflomorpha delongi (Champlain and Knull)

Lingafelter, Steven W., 2022, Revision of Aneflomorpha Casey and Neaneflus Linsley (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the United States with an illustrated key to species, Insecta Mundi 2022 (954), pp. 1-59 : 30

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scientific name	Aneflomorpha delongi (Champlain and Knull)
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Aneflomorpha delongi (Champlain and Knull) View in CoL

( Fig. 1f View Figure 1 , 5f View Figure 5 , 7f View Figure 7 , 8e View Figure 8 , 9e View Figure 9 , 10f View Figure 10 )

Elaphidion delongi Champlain and Knull 1922: 147 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Length 14–17 mm, pronotum averages 1.15 times longer than wide, elytra together average 3.89 times longer than wide ( Fig. 1f View Figure 1 ). Integument rufous. Antennae not carinate ( Fig. 9e View Figure 9 ). Spine of third antennomere about twice as long as second antennomere in most specimens, projecting away from antennal plane by nearly 45 degrees, blunt at apex ( Fig. 9e View Figure 9 ). Pronotum with moderate punctures unobscured by pubescence; with elongate impunctate, median callus ( Fig. 5f View Figure 5 ). Elytral apices bidentate or with dentiform suture and short, broad, apicolateral spine ( Fig. 8e View Figure 8 ). Elytral pubescence consisting only of translucent, erect setae, without recumbent setae ( Fig. 7f View Figure 7 ). Procoxal cavities open by slightly less than the width of the moderately expanded prosternal process ( Fig. 10f View Figure 10 ). Protibia slender, gradually widening apically with the dorsal margin straight and non-carinate (as in Fig. 11h View Figure 11 ).

Discussion. This is one of only two species of Aneflomorpha known from the eastern United States ( Lingafelter 2007; Bezark 2022), the other being A. subpubescens . Only two other species, A. subpubescens ( Fig. 7t View Figure 7 ) and A. linsleyae ( Fig. 7j View Figure 7 ), lack short, recumbent elytral pubescence. Aneflomorpha subpubescens is easily distinguished by its relatively short, acute spine on antennomere three ( Fig. 9q View Figure 9 ). The antennae are distinctly carinate and the blunt spine of antennomere three is no more than one-third the length of the fourth antennomere in A. linsleyae ( Fig. 9i View Figure 9 ). The antennae lack carinae, and the spine of the third antennomere is nearly half the length of the fourth antennomere in A. delongi ( Fig. 9e View Figure 9 ). Further distinguishing these two species is the protibia which is laterally flattened and carinate dorsally in A. linsleyae ( Fig. 11c View Figure 11 ), but neither flattened nor carinate in A. delongi .

Distribution and biology. This species is known only from Florida and Georgia, usually below 100 meters ( Lingafelter 2007). Morris (2002) reared one specimen from Quercus laevis Walter in Ocala National Forest, Florida. Other specimens have been collected at lights there and in similar scrub oak habitat in Georgia from April through September (pers. obs.; Morris 2002; Lingafelter 2007). Vlasak and Vlasakova (2021) reared many specimens from small branches of several new hosts of Quercus including Q. chapmanii Sarg. , Q. geminata , Q. inopina Ashe , and Q. myrtifolia in Polk County, Florida.

Material examined. USA: Florida : Miami, 3 April 1921, D. M. De Long, J. N. Knull Collection (holotype, FMNH) ; Marion Co., Ocala National Forest , USFS Rd 97, 2.5 miles N. Hwy 40, 29 °12 ′34″N, 81°47′02″ W, 100′, 26–27 July 2002, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter ( SWLC) GoogleMaps ; Marion Co., Ocala National Forest , 21–22 July 2000, Green / Morris (2, JAGC) ; Marion Co., 10 mi. NE Ocklawaha, Ocala N. F., 4 August 2018, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp ( KESC) ; Highlands Co., Archbold Biol. Sta. , 21 August 1978, William Rosenberg ( USNM) ; Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station , 23 September 1977, L. L. Lampert, Jr. ( TAMU) ; Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station , 9 September 1983, R. M. Brattain ( TAMU) ; Polk Co., 674 Pfundstein Rd. , Tiger Creek Preserve , 26 August 2016, R. Morris, mv/uv light ( FWSC). Georgia: Emanuel Co. , Halls Bridge Road , Ohoopee Dunes, 20 June 2014, at lights, Kyle E. Schnepp ( KESC) ; Emanuel Co., 10 mi. SW Swainsboro, Ohoopee Dunes , 6 June 2015, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp ( KESC) ; Long Co., 10 mi. WNW Ludowici , 18 June 2016, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp ( KESC) .