Sympagus cooperi, Monné & Monné, 2017

Monné, Marcela L. & Monné, Miguel A., 2017, New species of Neotropical Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 4299 (2), pp. 253-262 : 254

Sympagus cooperi sp. nov.

( Fig. 1 )

Description. Female. Integument dark brown. Pubescence predominantly light whitish gray; dark-brown areas covered with fine appressed brown pubescence. Antennae black. Vertex and pronotum with dark-brown median longitudinal vitta, at pronotum with sinuous borders. Pronotum with large round dark-brown spot on each side of median vitta. Scutellum black; elytra with rhomboid mark at base, interrupted band in middle, lateral patch on apical third, and some interspersed spots covered with dark-brown pubescence. Covered with grayish pubescence ventrally. Femora and tibiae covered with light-grayish pubescence.

Upper eye lobes well separated, distance between them 2 times width of upper lobe. Antennae broken, with only six antennomeres in left antenna. Prothorax armed with acute lateral tubercles in posterior third. Punctuation of pronotum restricted to basal row of punctures. Prosternal process narrowed in middle, width equal to half procoxal cavity width. Mesosternal process 2.5 times wider than mesocoxal cavity. Elytra with sparse punctures, more visible in dark pubescence. Apices obliquely emarginate, outer angle strongly produced. Metatarsomere I, 2 times longer than II–III together.

Apex of urotergite V truncated; urosternite V with distal margin rounded.

Measurements (mm), female. Total length, 7.5; prothorax length, 1.5; prothorax width, 1.8; elytral length, 5.3; humeral width, 2.5.

Etymology. The species is named for Mr. Martin V. Cooper, British hymenopterist, Herefordshire, UK, who collected the holotype.

Type material. Holotype. Female , Ecuador, Tunguragua: Baños, 2000m, 28.I.1984, M. Cooper leg. ( BMNH).

Comments. Sympagus cooperi Monné & Monné sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 ) is similar to S. birai Monné & Botero, 2016 , S. laetabilis ( Bates, 1872) and S. cedrelis Hovore & Toledo, 2006 in having the pronotum with a dark-brown, median, longitudinal vitta, extending from the vertex to the elytral base, and a similar elytral coloration pattern. The new species differs from S. birai in the pronotum, which has a large round dark-brown spot on each side of the median vitta. It differs from S. laetabilis in having the prothorax armed with an acute, lateral tubercle situated in the posterior third; and differs from S. cedrelis in having the outer angle of the elytra strongly projected. In S. cedrelis the elytral apices are rotundate-truncate or feebly emarginate, and the outer angle is obtusely angulate, or at most, feebly dentate.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. 1, Holotype of Sympagus cooperi sp. nov.; 2, holotype of Cobelura inornata sp. nov., 3, holotype of Cobelura raphaeli sp. nov.; 4, holotype of Cleodoxus tetralophus sp. nov.; 5, holotype of Paranisopodus amoenus sp. nov.