Pseudoperma, Dillon and Dillon, 1946

Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2018, Synopsis of the genus Pseudoperma Dillon and Dillon, 1946 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 52 (9 - 10), pp. 621-626 : 622

Key to species of Pseudoperma (partially adapted from Dillon and Dillon, 1946)

1. Antennal tubercles acute, projected; pronotum with median longitudinal vitta of yellowish pubescence; mesosternal process flat, without projections. Brazil (Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina) ( Figure 1a,d )........................ P. patruelis ( Breuning, 1940) Antennal tubercles rounded, not projected; pronotum uniformly covered with fulvous pubescence or with indistinct yellowish median longitudinal vitta; mesosternal process prominent, with or without anterior tubercle .................................................................... 2

2. Pronotum uniformly covered with fulvous pubescence; elytra with 7 uninterrupted fulvous vittae on each elytral disc; mesosternal process with tubercle at anterior margin. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) ( Figure 1b,e )...................... P. chalcogramma ( Bates, 1887)

Figures

Figure 1. (a) Pseudoperma patruelis (Breuning), male; (b) Pseudoperma chalcogramma (Bates), male; (c) Pseudoperma lingafelteri sp. nov., holotype male; (d) Pseudoperma patruelis, lateral view, detail of meso- and metasternum (e) Pseudoperma chalcogramma, lateral view; detail of meso- and metasternum (f) Pseudoperma lingafelteri sp. nov, lateral view; detail of meso- and metasternum.