Mecotetartus Bates, 1872

Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to Mexico and Central America genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) without erect setae on elytral surface, excluding the Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 301-337 : 321

Mecotetartus Bates, 1872

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Mecotetartus Bates, 1872: 213 .

Type species — Mecotetartus antennatus Bates, 1872 (monotypy).

Eutessus LeConte, 1873: 235 .

Type species — Eutessus asper LeConte, 1873 (monotypy).

Diagnosis. Body elongated.Antennae in male about four times body length; in male, antennomere III, and espe-

cially the IV noticeably longs. Prothorax with lateral tubercles placed near posterior margin. Elytra elongated, apex

somewhat narrowly rounded; surface sparsely tuberculate. Prosternal process about one-third as wide as procoxal

cavity, mesoventral process narrow. Number of species currently included: 1 ( Mexico and Central America ).

Figures

FIGURES 28–42. 28–29) Hyperplatys pichinchensis, holotype female (from Nascimento et al. 2020): 28) Dorsal habitus; 29) Ventral habitus. 30) Idephrynus scaber, holotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 31) Lagocheirus binumeratus Thomson, 1860, female, dorsal habitus. 32) Leptostylopsis longicornis (Fisher, 1926), female, dorsal habitus. 33) Leptostylus x-griseus Bates, 1885, female, dorsal habitus. 34) Lepturges (Lepturges) elegantulus, male, dorsal habitus. 35) Lepturginus obscurellus, holotype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 36–37) Lophopoeum carinatulum, female: 36) Dorsal habitus; 37) Ventral habitus. 38) Mecotetartus antennatus, male, dorsal habitus. 39) Moneilema annulatum, female, dorsal habitus. 40) Nealcidion nebulosum, male, dorsal habitus (from Nascimento et al. 2020). 41) Nyssodrysternum caudatum (Bates, 1864), syntype, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 42) Olenosus serrimanus, male, dorsal habitus.