Aegomorphus cunninghami Heffern, Santos-Silva & Botero, 2022

Bezark, Larry G. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2023, Description of two new species of Cerambycidae and new records and notes on American Cerambycidae and Disteniidae (Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5351 (3), pp. 356-370 : 362

Aegomorphus cunninghami Heffern, Santos-Silva & Botero, 2022

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Aegomorphus cunninghami Heffern et al., 2022: 4 .

Remarks. This species was described based on a single male from Mexico (Jalisco). The female is slightly stouter than the male but has the dorsal pubescence very similar. The antennae are slightly shorter, 1.55 times elytral length, reaching the elytral apex at middle of antennomere IX. In the holotype male, the antennae are at least 1.7 times elytral length in the holotype male (missing most of antennomere XI of left antenna and antennomeres X–XI of the right antenna) and reaches the elytral apex at the basal third of the antennomere VIII). Furthermore, the abdominal ventrite 5 ( Fig. 12 ) is more convex and rounded apically, while it is more flattened and the apex is emarginate centrally.

Material examined. MEXICO, Colima (new state record): Zacualpan (rd to Manantiales), 19º22.819’N 103º49.120’W, 1782’, 1 female, 16.VII.2017, J. Rifkind & E. Martinez leg. ( LGBC) .

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FIGURES 6–14. Acanthoderini spp. 6) Acanthoderes (Acanthoderes) giesberti Chemsak & Hovore, 2002, male from Mexico (San Luis Potosí), dorsal habitus. 7) Aegomorphus consentaneus (Thomson, 1865), male from Ecuador (Napo), dorsal habitus. 8) Aegomorphus maccartyi (Chemsak & Hovore, 2002), female from Mexico (Nayarit), dorsal habitus. 9–12) Aegomorphus cunninghami Heffern, Santos-Silva & Botero, 2022, female from Mexico (Colima): 9) Dorsal habitus; 10) Ventral habitus; 11) Head, frontal view; 12) Abdominal ventrite 5. 13) Aegomorphus polystictus (Bates, 1885), female from Costa Rica (San José), dorsal habitus. 14) Aegomorphus quadrigibbus (Say, 1831), female from Belize (Cayo), dorsal habitus.