Assycuera, a new Neotropical genus of Ancylocerina (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Trachyderini)

Napp, Dilma Solange; Monné, Marcela Laura

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752001000300030

Abstract

Assycuera gen. n. (type species: Anyclocera macroteta Bates, 1880) is proposed to accomodate four species formerly placed in Ancylocera Audinet-Serville, 1834: Assycuera waterhousei (White, 1855) comb, n., Assycuera macrotela (Bates, 1880) comb, n., Assycuera rubella (Bates, 1892), comb. n. and Assycuera scabricollis (Chemsak, 1963) comb. n. The characters used to assemble these species into the new genus were mainly the gradually clavate femora and the antennae of the male with the 11th segment elongate, filiform, the scape not enlarged at base and the pedicel not projected outerly. All the species are redescribed, illustrated and keyed. The males of Assycuera scabricollis and A. rubella are described for the first time. The key presented by Monné & Napp (2000b) for the Neotropical genera of Ancylocerina is modified in order to include the new genus.

Ancylocerina; Cerambycinae; Assycuera; taxonomy; Trachyderini

Assycuera, a new Neotropical genus of Ancylocerina (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Trachyderini)¹ 1 Contribuição número 1245 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Dilma Solange Napp; Marcela Laura Monné

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Bolsista do CNPq e CAPES

ABSTRACT

Assycuera gen. n. (type species: Anyclocera macroteta Bates, 1880) is proposed to accomodate four species formerly placed in Ancylocera Audinet-Serville, 1834: Assycuera waterhousei (White, 1855) comb, n., Assycuera macrotela (Bates, 1880) comb, n., Assycuera rubella (Bates, 1892), comb. n. and Assycuera scabricollis (Chemsak, 1963) comb. n. The characters used to assemble these species into the new genus were mainly the gradually clavate femora and the antennae of the male with the 11^th segment elongate, filiform, the scape not enlarged at base and the pedicel not projected outerly. All the species are redescribed, illustrated and keyed. The males of Assycuera scabricollis and A. rubella are described for the first time. The key presented by Monné & Napp (2000b) for the Neotropical genera of Ancylocerina is modified in order to include the new genus.

Key words: Ancylocerina, Cerambycinae, Assycuera, taxonomy, Trachyderini.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We are grateful to David H. Kavanaugh (CASC) for the loan of the holotype of

Ancylocera scabricollis.

A special thanks also to Albino M. Sakakibara (DZUP) for the revision of the english manuscript and for taking the photographs.

Recebido em 15.XII.2000; aceito em 28.VIII.2001

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BATES, H.W. 1870. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley (Coleoptera). Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1870:391-344.
______. 1872. On the longicorn Coleoptera of Chontales, Nicaragua. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1872:163-238.
______. 1880. In: F.D. GODMAN & O. SALVIN. Biologia Centrali Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. London, Vol. 5, p. 17-152.
______. 1885. In: F.D. GODMAN & O. SALVIN. Biologia Centrali Americana. Supplement to Longicornia. Vol. 5, p. 249-436.
______. 1892. Additions to the Longicornia of Mexico and Central America, with remarks on some previously recorded species. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1892:143-183.
BLACKWELDER, R.E. 1946. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Part 4. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 185:551-763.
BUQUET, J.B. 1857. Lettre sur le genre Ancylocera de la famille des cérambycides. Archiv. Ent., Paris, 1: 137-138.
CHEMSAK, J.A. 1963. Synopsis of the genus Ancylocera in Mexico (Coleóptera, Cerambycidae). Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc. 36(2):104-109.
______. 1964. A new species of Mexican Ancylocera with records of others. (Col., Cerambycidae). Ent. News 75(4):108-110.
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LACORDAIRE, J.T. 1869. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères. Paris, Librerie Encyclopedique de Roret, 9(1):1-409.
LAMEERE, A.A . 1883. Liste des cérambycides, décrits postérieurement au catalogue de Munich. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 26:1-78.
MAES, J.M.; A. ALLEN; M.A. MONNÉ & F.T. HOVORE. 1994. Catalogo de los Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) de Nicaragua. Revta Nicar. Ent. 27:1-58.
MONNÉ, MA. 1994. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere. XI. São Paulo. Soc. Bras. Ent., 157p.
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______. 2000b. Two new South American genera of Ancylocernina (Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Trachyderini). Coleopts Bull. 54(3):351-358.
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Contribuição número 1245 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Publication Dates

Publication in this collection
08 May 2009
Date of issue
Sept 2001

History

Accepted
28 Aug 2001
Received
15 Dec 2000

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[1] AURIVILLIUS, C. 1912. Coleopterorum Catalogus, pars 39, Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae. Berlin, W. Junk, 574p.

[2] BATES, H.W. 1870. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley (Coleoptera). Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1870:391-344.

[3] ______. 1872. On the longicorn Coleoptera of Chontales, Nicaragua. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1872:163-238.

[4] ______. 1880. In: F.D. GODMAN & O. SALVIN. Biologia Centrali Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. London, Vol. 5, p. 17-152.

[5] ______. 1885. In: F.D. GODMAN & O. SALVIN. Biologia Centrali Americana. Supplement to Longicornia. Vol. 5, p. 249-436.

[6] ______. 1892. Additions to the Longicornia of Mexico and Central America, with remarks on some previously recorded species. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1892:143-183.

[7] BLACKWELDER, R.E. 1946. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Part 4. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 185:551-763.

[8] BUQUET, J.B. 1857. Lettre sur le genre Ancylocera de la famille des cérambycides. Archiv. Ent., Paris, 1: 137-138.

[9] CHEMSAK, J.A. 1963. Synopsis of the genus Ancylocera in Mexico (Coleóptera, Cerambycidae). Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc. 36(2):104-109.

[10] ______. 1964. A new species of Mexican Ancylocera with records of others. (Col., Cerambycidae). Ent. News 75(4):108-110.

[11] CHEMSAK, J.A. & E.G. LINSLEY. 1970. Additional designations of lectotypes of neotropical Cerambycidae in the collections of the British Museum (Natural Histoiy) (Coleóptera). Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc. 43(4):404-417.

[12] CHEMSAK, J.A.; E.G. LINSLEY & F.A. NOGUERA. 1992. Listados faunísticos de México. II . Los Cerambycidae y Disteniidae de Norteamérica, Ccntroamérica y las Indias Occidentales (Coleoptera). México, Univ. Nacional Autónoma México, 204p.

[13] CHEMSAK, J.A.; E.G. LINSLEY & J.V. MANKINS, 1980. Records of some Cerambycidae from Honduras (Coleoptera). Pan-Pacif. Ent. 56(1):26-37.

[14] CHEMSAK, J.A. & F.A. NOGUERA. 1995. Annotated checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Estacion de Biologia Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico (Coleoptera), with descriptions of a new genera and species. Folia Ent. Mex. 89:55-102.

[15] LACORDAIRE, J.T. 1869. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères. Paris, Librerie Encyclopedique de Roret, 9(1):1-409.

[16] LAMEERE, A.A . 1883. Liste des cérambycides, décrits postérieurement au catalogue de Munich. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 26:1-78.

[17] MAES, J.M.; A. ALLEN; M.A. MONNÉ & F.T. HOVORE. 1994. Catalogo de los Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) de Nicaragua. Revta Nicar. Ent. 27:1-58.

[18] MONNÉ, MA. 1994. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere. XI. São Paulo. Soc. Bras. Ent., 157p.

[19] MONNÉ, M.A. & E.F. GIESBERT. 1995. Checklist of the Cerambycidae and Disteniidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere. Burbank, Wolfsgarden Books, XIII+419p.

[20] MONNÉ., M.L. & D.S. NAPP. 2000a. Revisão do gênero Ceralocyna (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Trachyderini, Ancylocerina). Iheringia, Sér. Zool., Porto Alegre, (88):103-137.

[21] ______. 2000b. Two new South American genera of Ancylocernina (Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Trachyderini). Coleopts Bull. 54(3):351-358.

[22] NOGUERA, F.A. & J.A. CHEMSAK. 1996. Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), p. 381-409. In: J.L. BOUSQUETS; A.N.G. ALDRETE & E.G. SORIANO (Eds) Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artrópodos de México: Hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento. México, Univ. Nacional Autónoma México, 660p.

[23] VIANA, M.J. 1971. Las espécies argentinas de Ancylocerini Thomson y catálogo bibliográfico de la tribu (Coleopt., Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae). Revta Mus. arg. Cienc, nat. Bernardino Rivadavia, Entom., 3(3):149-205.

[24] WHITE, A. 1855. Catalogue of the coleopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. 8. Longicornia 2, London, p. 175-412.

[25] ZAJCIW, D.1961. Insecta Amapaensia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Studia Ent. 4 (1-4): 525-536.