Cylindrommata susanae, Monné & Mermudes, 2009

Monné, M. L. & Mermudes, J. R. M., 2009, Revision of the genus Cylindrommata Tippmann (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Journal of Natural History 43 (41 - 42), pp. 2641-2647 : 2646-2647

Cylindrommata susanae sp. nov.

( Figure 1E, F )

Description

Head, prothorax and mesosternum orangish; elytra yellowish; antennae, scutellum, metasternum, metepisternum, and legs dark brown to black; abdominal segments 1– 4 black to brownish, and segment 5 brownish. Body with short, dense, yellow pubescence; punctation fine, dense and most evident on elytra. Antennae exceeding elytral apices by one segment in males, barely reaching elytral apices in females. Scape short, cylindrical, slightly shorter than segment 3; segment 3 1.5 times as long as 4; segments 5–7 similar-sized; segments 8–11 gradually shorter. Prothorax elongated, sides almost parallel, without tubercles. Pronotum without gibbosities. Elytra about five times as long as prothorax, with three longitudinal carinae. First segment of protarsi onethird longer than second; first segment of mesotarsi 1.5 times as long as the second; first segment of metatarsi 2.0 times as long as the second. Two last abdominal segments dorsally exposed.

Etymology. This species is named after Susana Freire Martinez de Monné, who collected one specimen of this new species.

Measurements in mm, holotype male/ paratype female. Total length, 10.4–16.5/9.8– 14.8; prothorax length, 1.5–1.9/1.5–1.7; prothorax width, 1.2–1.7/1.2–2.0; elytral length, 5.8–9.5/5.7–8.9; humeral width, 1.5–2.2/1.6–2.5.

Type material. Male holotype, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro (Corcovado), November 1961, Alvarenga and Seabra col. (MNRJ); same data as holotype , one male, 7 November 1957 ( MNRJ) ; one male, 17 October 1958 ( MNRJ) ; one male, 3 October 1959 ( MNRJ) ; one male, October 1966, F.M. Oliveira col. ( MNRJ) ; one male, November 1967 ( MNRJ) ; one female, October 1970, F.M. Oliveira col. ( MNRJ) ; one male, one female, October 1970 ( MNRJ) ; one female, October 1972, F.M. Oliveira col. ( MNRJ) ; two males, January 1977 ( MNRJ) ; one male, Itatiaia ( Parque Nacional do Itatiaia ), 700 m, 5–25 November 1974, S.F.M. de Monné and M.A. Monné col. ( MNRJ) ; Minas Gerais, Maria da Fé , one male, November 1969, O. Roppa col. ( MNRJ) ; São Paulo: Cantareira , one male (paratype of C. longissima ), 30 November 1937, H. Zellibor col. ( MNRJ) .

Comments

This species differs from the others by the prothorax without tubercles, parallel at sides, and elytra yellowish. See other comments in the section on C. longissima .

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to FAPERJ for Grant No. E-26/110.141/2008, and to CNPq for Grant No. 471726/2007–9. Our thanks to Miguel A. Monné ( MNRJ) for his critical reading, and to Dr Steven W. Lingafelter ( USNM) for the holotype photograph of Cylindrommata longissima . Dr Janet W. Reid revised the English text .

Figures

Figure 1. Cylindrommata species. (A) Cylindrommata longissima Tippmann, male holotype; (B) Cylindrommata longissima, female; (C) Cylindrommata aurantia sp. nov., male holotype; (D) Cylindrommata lustrata sp. nov., male holotype; (E) Cylindrommata susanae sp. nov., male paratype (ex-paratype of C. longissima); (F) Cylindrommata susanae sp. nov., female paratype.