Neocompsa thelgema Martins, 1971

Santos-Silva, Antonio & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2020, A new species of Pteroplatus Buquet, 1840 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and taxonomical notes in Neotropical Cerambycidae, Insecta Mundi 2020 (772), pp. 1-10 : 2

Neocompsa thelgema Martins, 1971

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Neocompsa thelgema Martins 1971: 166 ; Chemsak et al. 1992: 52 (cat.); Monné 1993: 67 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 81 (checklist); Turnbow et al. 2003: 12 (distr.); Monné 2005a: 384 (cat.); Monné and Hovore 2006: 99 (checklist); Swift et al. 2010: 21 (distr.); Monné 2020a: 554 (cat.); Bezark 2020a: 132 (checklist).

Neocompsa thelgema was described based on a single male from Costa Rica. Monné and Giesbert (1994) recorded the species from Honduras based, probably, on material from the collection of Edmund F. Giesbert (currently deposited at FSCA).

The female was never formally described, but the two specimens figured in Bezark (2020b) as well as the female examined by us are mostly blackish and not reddish-brown as the holotype male, including antennae and legs. The other features are nearly identical to the holotype male, except the antennae are distinctly shorter. In the holotype male, the antennae reach the elytral apex at about the apex of antennomere VII, while in the female they reach the apex about the apex of antennomere IX.

Material examined. PANAMA, BOCAS DEL TORO: Bastimentos Island, near Red Frog Beach, 9.3471ºN / 82.1788ºW, 1 female, 4. VI.2019, A. Kozlov and Y. Kovaleva col. ( MZSP).

Figures

Figures 1–9. 1) Neocompsa thelgema, female, dorsal habitus. 2–6) Pteroplatus antonkozlovi, holotype female. 2) Dorsal habitus.3) Lateral habitus.4) Ventral habitus.5) Frontal view.6) Elytral base.7–9) Pteroplatus variabilis. 7) Elytral base, syntype 1. 8) Syntype 1, dorsal habitus. 9) Syntype 2, dorsal habitus.