Catharesthes Bates, 1881

Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to Mexican and Central American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, excluding the Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4885 (1), pp. 1-26 : 8

Catharesthes Bates, 1881

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Catharesthes Bates, 1881: 158 .

Type species— Catharesthes elegans Bates, 1881 (monotypy).

Diagnosis. Antennae longer than body; prothorax with robust lateral tubercles placed on each side of the middle, pronotum bituberculate; elytra with robust centrobasal crest, without carina, with small tubercles basally; metafemora elongate and pedunculate; basal metatarsomere longer than the two following together. Number of species currently included: 1 (Central America ).

Figures

FIGURES 33–47. 33) Pentheochaetes mystica Melzer, 1932, syntype male, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), dorsal habitus (from Monné et al. 2020). 34) Phrissolaus inspersus Bates, 1881, lectotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 35) Pseudocobelura prolixa (Bates, 1864), male, dorsal habitus, Brazil (Pará) (from Monné et al. 2020). 36) Tenthras obliteratus Thomson, 1864, female, dorsal habitus, Brazil (Goiás) (from Monné et al. 2020). 37) Trichalphus pilosus Bates, 1881, lectotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 38) Trichastylopsis albidus (LeConte, 1852), holotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 39) Trichocanonura linearis (Skinner, 1905), dorsal habitus (from Bezark 2020). 40–42) Trichotithonus curvatus (Bates, 1885), holotype male of Pentheochaetes nitidus Monné & Martins, 1976 (= Trichotithonus curvatus), Brazil (Santa Catarina) (from Monné et al. 2020): 40) Dorsal habitus; 41) Ventral habitus; 42) Lateral habitus. 43) Tuberastyochus tenebrosus (Bates, 1881), holotype female, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 44) Valenus inornatus Casey, 1891, holotype, dorsal habitus (from Lingafelter et al. 2020). 45–46) Catharesthes elegans Bates, 1881, holotype (by Jesus Santiago Moure): 45) Dorsal habitus; 46) Elytra, detail of posterior half. 47) Pentheochaetes apicalis Melzer, 1934, holotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure).