Zikanita monnei Noguera & Gutiérrez, 2019

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Bezark, Larry G. & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2025, The Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from the James Cope collection: New species, synonymy, and taxonomical and geographical notes, Zootaxa 5723 (3), pp. 384-400 : 397-398

Zikanita monnei Noguera & Gutiérrez, 2019

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Zikanita monnei Noguera & Gutiérrez, 2019: 10 .

Remarks. This species was described and remains known only from Mexico ( Chiapas) ( Monné 2024b; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2025). It appears to represent merely a chromatic variation of Zikanita argenteofasciata (Tippmann, 1960) , a species known from Peru and the Brazilian state of Maranhão. According to Noguera & Gutiérrez (2019), Z. monnei differs from Z. argenteofasciata “by the strongly sinuate apex of elytra and the slightly emarginate apex of the last abdominal segment,” which are almost straight in the latter. However, these features appear to be somewhat variable in Z. argenteofasciata . This assumption is based on specimens we previously studied and is supported by photographs, some of which were provided by one of the authors ( e.g. Bezark 2025; Nascimento et al. 2019).

Material examined. COSTA RICA ( new country record), Heredia: La Selva Bio. Station , at light, 1 female ,

7.IV.1994, Jim Cope leg. ( CSCA) .

Figures

FIGURES 27–29. Lamiinae spp., dorsal habitus. 27) Polymitoleiopus ozophagus (Chemsak & Feller, 1988), male. 28) Zikanita monnei Noguera & Gutiérrez, 2019, female. 29) Irundiaba waorani Martins & Galileo, 2008, female.