Nealcidion cephaliferum Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022

Heffern, Daniel, Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto De L. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2024, Lamiinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Panama: new species, new records, and new synonymy, Zootaxa 5458 (2), pp. 247-262 : 250-251

Nealcidion cephaliferum Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022

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Nealcidion cephaliferum Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022: 542 ; Monné, 2023: 139 (cat.).

Remarks. Nealcidion Monné, 1977 has 62 known species, distributed from Mexico to southern South America (Monné 2023; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2023). Herein we are recording a second species recently described from South America, N. cephaliferum Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022 for Panama.

Nealcidion cephaliferum was described based on male and female from Ecuador ( Bezark 2024b; Monné 2024; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2023). The specimens examined allow expanding the geographical distribution of the species to southern Central America.

Material examined. PANAMA (new country record), Ngäbe-Buglé: Palo Seco Forest , 8.78°N 82.21°W, 6- 10.IX.2021, B.T. Raber leg. ( DHCO) . Panama Oeste: Howard area , 8.9°N 79.59°W, 26.VIII.2021, B.T. Raber leg. ( DHCO) .

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FIGURES 1–3. Lamiinae spp., dorsal habitus. 1) Lagocheirus cristulatus Bates, 1872, female from Panama. 2) Leptostylus guianensis Vlasák & Santos-Silva, 2021, female from Panama. 3) Nealcidion cephaliferum Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022, male from Panama.