Sarifer seabrai Fragoso and Monné, 1982

Lingafelter, Steven W., 2015, The Prioninae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Hispaniola, with Diagnoses, Descriptions of New Species, Distribution Records, and a Key for Identification, The Coleopterists Bulletin 69 (3), pp. 353-388 : 358

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https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065x-69.3.353

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scientific name

Sarifer seabrai Fragoso and Monné, 1982
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8. Sarifer seabrai Fragoso and Monné, 1982 View in CoL ( Figs. 2b View Fig , 14b View Fig )

Discussion. This striking species is known only from the Dominican Republic (Monné 2015). Lingafelter and Woodley (2007) provided detailed records of this species from the Dominican Republic around Pico Duarte in the Parque Nacional Armando Bermúdez, and those are summarized below, along with an additional record that extends the range considerably to the northwest near the Haitian border and represents a new provincial record for Elías Piña. Specimens are typically collected at lights during light rain in mountainous habitats in June and July.

The eyes of this species are very large with the upper and lower lobes nearly touching. There is pronounced sexual dimorphism in the antennae: the males have antennomeres 3–10 strongly biflabellate, while the females (which are exceedingly rare) have unmodified antennae (Fragoso and Monné 1982). The elytra of males are covered with a dense vestiture of golden pubescence, while those of females are sparsely pubescent. The pronotum of both sexes has two very long, apically recurved spines (positioned anteriorly and medially).

Hispaniolan Localities. D O M I N I C A N REPUBLIC: Elías Piña Province (Río Limpio); La Vega Province (Constanza [holotype, paratype, MNRJ]; near Los Tablones River , west of La

Ciénaga [USNM]); Monseñor Noeul Province (7 km northwest of La Ceiba).

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Sarifer

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