Megacyllene Casey, 1912

Botero, Juan Pablo, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Wappes, James E., 2019, New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Insecta Mundi 697, pp. 1-19 : 4

Megacyllene Casey, 1912

Newman (1840) described the new genus Cyllene for Cyllene spinifera Newman, 1840 (now Megacyllene nebulosa Laporte and Gory, 1836 ) ( Monné 2018). Subsequently, Casey (1912) described Megacyllene for Clytus antennatus White, 1855 . Hopping (1932) disagreed with the Casey concept and placed Megacyllene into synonymy with Cyllene . Fisher (1945) found Cyllene Newman, 1840 to be preoccupied by Cyllene Gray, 1834 (Mollusca) and designated Megacyllene as a replacement. The genus is restricted to America (New World) (most species are neotropical) and is currently composed of 54 species and two subspecies ( Bezark 2019; Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2018). Recently, the South American species were revised by Martins and Galileo (2011). A new species from west-central Mexico (Nayarit) is described below.