Anelaphus submoestus Linsley

Lingafelter, Steven W., 2020, Review of species of Anelaphus Linsley and its new synonym Gymnopsyra Linsley from the United States and Canada with description of a new species, synonymies, distributional notes and an illustrated identification key (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini), Insecta Mundi 2020 (798), pp. 1-30 : 16

Anelaphus submoestus Linsley

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Anelaphus submoestus Linsley 1942: 42 .

Discussion. One record of this rarely collected species was reared from Sapindus marginatus [= S. saponaria var. drummondi ] from the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona ( Linsley 1963). New records are listed below for Arizona and Sonora, Mexico (new state record). Note that this species is missing from Monné and Nearns (2020).

Material examined. Mexico: Sonora: MX16 at km 155, 5 July 2008, at light, Skillman, O ′ Brien, Ribardo (9, FWSC) ; USA: Arizona: Maricopa Co., Ft. McDowell , Verde River , 2 July 1986, D. Ahart (1, FWSC) ; Maricopa Co., vicinity of Mesa , 6 June 1964, light trap, Jim Haddock (1, SWLC) ; Maricopa Co., Gila Road at Airport Road, N 33°21 ′, W112°30 ′, 26 July 1997, W. B. Warner (2, FWSC) ; Pima Co., Picture Rocks , 665 m, 32°21.402 ′ N, 111°12.289 ′ W, 15 July 2017 & 7 July 2016, at light, Margarethe Brummermann (2, SWLC) .

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Figure 2. Species of Anelaphus occurring in America north of Mexico (photographs are not to scale). a) A. moestus (LeConte). b) A. mutatum (Gahan). c) A. niveivestitus (Schaeffer). d) A. piceus (Chemsak). e) A. pumilus (Newman). f) A. simile (Schaeffer). g) A. spurcus (LeConte). h) A. subdepressum (Schaeffer). i) A. subinermis Linsley. j) A. submoestus Linsley. k) A. villosus (Fabricius).