Confluentia, Santos-Silva & Galileo & Mcclarin, 2018

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Mcclarin, Jim, 2018, Division of the genera Sparna Thomson, 1864 and Carterica Pascoe, 1858 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Colobotheini) with description of six new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 4407 (1), pp. 1-28 : 26

Key to species of Confluentia

1. Each elytron with two dark longitudinal bands. Colombia............................... C. nigrolineata ( Fuchs, 1956)

- Elytra without dark longitudinal bands..................................................................... 2

2(1). Elytra widened after middle, in widest area, distance between outermost dorsal carina and humeral carina equal to about 1.5 times width between dorsal carinae. Colombia....................................... C. colombiana ( Gilmour, 1950)

- Elytra not distinctly widened after middle, in widest area, distance between outermost dorsal carina and humeral carina about as wide as width between dorsal carinae.................................................................... 3

3(2). Antennomere III with abundant long, erect ventral setae. Ecuador.......................... C. pallida ( Gilmour, 1950)

- Antennomere III with sparse erect ventral setae.............................................................. 4

4(3). Elytra entirely dark, apices deeply notched close to distal outer spine. Colombia....................... C. nigra sp. nov.

- Elytra bicolorous, apices not deeply notched close to distal outer spine........................................... 5

5(4). Antennomere III shorter than IV. Peru................................................. C. flavomaculata sp. nov.

- Antennomere III slightly longer than IV.................................................................... 6

6(5). Basal 3/4 of elytra with well defined wide lateral reddish orange band. Colombia....... C. rubra (Martins & Galileo, 2005)

- Elytra with basal dark area irregularly shaped, with light lateral area not forming well defined longitudinal band. Peru, B....................................................................................... C. soror (Belon, 1896)