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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-27
Page range: 346–350
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Description of a new genus of Elaphidiini with two new species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)

Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazi.
PPG Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. (Fellow of the Conselho Nacional de DesenvolvimentoCientífico e Tecnológico).
Coleoptera Cerambycidae Cerambycinae

Abstract

Elaphidiini Thomson, 1864 is a large tribe of Cerambycidae composed of 92 genera with species distributed from Canada to southern South America. Lingafelter (1998) performed a generic level phylogenetic analysis of the tribe and provided a key to the known genera. According to Lingafelter, Elaphidiini is characterized as follows: mesally-spined antenna (lost in some taxa), narrow metepisternum with a centrally positioned keel, strongly sclerotized below and membranous above; prosternal process between procoxae slightly to strongly expanded at apex (rarely linear and unexpanded); terminal palpomeres much wider at apex than base; and coarsely faceted eyes (with few exceptions).

 

References

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    Lingafelter, S.W. (1998) The genera of Elaphidiini Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 20, 1–118.

    Martins, U.R. & Galileo, M.H.M. (2005) Tribo Elaphidionini. In: Martins, U.R. (Org.), Cerambycidae Sul-Americanos (Coleoptera). Taxonomia. Vol. 7. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia, São Paulo, 394 pp.