Rosalba Thomson, 1864

Botero, Juan Pablo & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2022, New species, synonymy, new records, and taxonomic notes in American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (931), pp. 1-22 : 15

Rosalba Thomson, 1864

( Fig. 38 )

Rosalba Thomson 1864: 108 .

Aletretia Bates 1866: 34 .

Apyratuca Galileo and Martins 2006: 13 .

Parhippopsis Breuning 1973: 653 . New synonym.

Breuning (1973) described Parhippopsis in Agapanthiini to include his new species P. columbiana , which was described based on a single specimen from Colombia (Valle del Cauca). The differences between Agapanthiini and Apomecynini, as for other tribes, are not very clear. However, with a few exceptions such as Helvina Thomson, 1864 , which is probably placed in the wrong tribe, in Apomecynini the frons is not strongly oblique (strongly oblique in Agapanthiini). All the features reported by Breuning (1973) regarding Parhippopsis are present in Rosalba . Therefore, Parhippopsis is considered a junior synonym of Rosalba .

Comparing Parhippopsis columbiana ( Fig. 38 ) with Rosalba stenodesma Joly et al., 2018 (see photographs on Bezark 2022), they are very similar dorsally. However, as antennomere V has a basal white pubescent ring in the former (absent in R. stenodesma ), and the two outermost longitudinal yellowish pubescent bands on the dorsal surface of the elytra ending at the same level (outermost distinctly surpassing apex of the innermost in R. stenodesma ), we are keeping them as different species. Only the study of specimens from the same area of the holotype of P. columbiana can clarify whether or not they are of the same species. With the synonymy between Rosalba and Parhippopsis , we have a new combination: Rosalba columbiana ( Breuning, 1973) .

HEMILOPHINI Thomson, 1868

Figures

Figures 38–45. Lamiinae spp. 38) Rosalba columbiana Breuning, 1973), holotype, by Jesus Santiago Moure. 39) Corcovado bezarki Martins and Galileo, 2008, female, dorsal habitus. 40–43) Anobrium bicolor Botero and Santos-Silva, sp. nov., holotype male: 40) Dorsal habitus; 41) Ventral habitus; 42) Lateral habitus; 43) Head, frontal view. 44) Anobrium luridum (Breuning, 1940), female (MZSP 49217) from Brazil (Espírito Santo), dorsal habitus. 45) Anobrium leuconotum Galileo and Martins, 2002, holotype male (MZSP 49858), dorsal habitus.