Anisopodus White, 1855

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 : 309

Anisopodus White, 1855

( Figs. 9–10 )

Anisopodus White, 1855: 349 (replace name).

Anisopus Audinet-Serville, 1835: 30 (homonym of Anisopus Meigen, 1803 ).

Type species — Anisopus arachnoides Audinet-Serville, 1835 (monotypy).

Leptoscelis Dejean, 1835: 145 (homonym of Leptoscelis Laporte, 1832 ).

Type-species — Anisopus arachnoides Audinet-Serville, 1835 (only valid species originally included).

Diagnosis. Lateral tubercle of the prothorax situated on posterior third; elytra with centrobasal crest, with or without carinae; apex of the metafemora surpassing elytral apex, especially in males; metafemoral club not strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I longer than II–V together.

Remarks. This is a very problematic genus, including species that evidently do not agree with the characters of the type species of the genus. According to Nascimento et al. (2020): “Accordingly, any description or redescription must provide a good character or characters separating Anisopodus from Hyperplatys . While a complete and detailed revision of these two genera is not made, we believe that the following character set can be used to separate them:— Anisopodus : metafemora distinctly surpassing elytral apex in male (rarely not so); metafemoral club not strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I longer than II–V together;— Hyperplatys : metafemora not or slightly surpassing elytral apex in male; metafemoral club strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I not longer than II–V together.” Number of species currently included: 45; in Mexico and Central America : 19.

Figures

FIGURES 1–14. 1) Acanthocinus (Acanthocinus) aedilis, female, dorsal habitus. 2–3) Acanthocinus (Acanthocinus) spectabilis (LeConte, 1854), male: 2) Dorsal habitus; 3) Lateral habitus. 4) Alcathousiella polyrhaphoides, male, dorsal habitus. 5–7) Alphinellus carinipennis Bates, 1885: 5) Dorsal habitus; 6) Ventral habitus; 7) Lateral habitus. 8) Amniscites pictipes, female, dorsal habitus (from Santos-Silva et al. 2019). 9–10) Anisopodus arachnoides, male: 9) Dorsal habitus; 10) Lateral habitus. 11–13) Apteralcidion lapierrei, male: 11) Dorsal habitus; 12) Ventral habitus; 13) Lateral habitus. 14) Atrypanius conspersus, female, dorsal habitus.