Tricheops

Evans, Brenda & Ślipiński, Adam, 2016, Review of the genus Tricheops Newman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) with description of two new species from Western Australia, Zootaxa 4137 (4), pp. 569-577 : 571

Key to species of Tricheops

1 Upper, middle and lower eye lobes at narrowest point separated by approximately 5, 6 and 2 stemmata, respectively ( Fig. 1 D). Body yellow with brown saddle shape on elytra ( Fig. 1 A)............................................ T. epipphiger

- Upper, middle and lower eye lobes at narrowest point separated by approximately 8–10, 10–11 and 7 stemmata, respectively ( Figs 2 D, 3D)......................................................................................... 2

2(1) Metafemur length 5.0–6.5 times greatest width. Median frontoclypeal groove not strongly impressed. Elytra 5.5 times head length. Golden and dark brown dorsal surface, with two distinctive dark brown markings on lateral sides of pronotum and single dark brown marking on the posterior part of the pronotum ( Fig. 3 )................................. T. guillemeti

- Metafemur length 4 times greatest width. Median frontoclypeal groove strongly impressed. Elytra 4.5 times length of head. Tan brown with paddle shaped darker brown marking on elytra ( Fig. 2 )..................................... T. remus

Figures

FIGURE 1. Tricheops epipphiger (Newman). A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, frontal; D, oblique lateral; E, lateral. A, E from Ślipiński and Escalona 2016.

FIGURE 2. Tricheops remus n. sp. A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, frontal; D, oblique lateral; E, lateral. A, B from Ślipiński and Escalona 2016.

FIGURE 3. Tricheops guillemeti n. sp. A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, frontal; D, oblique lateral; E, lateral.