Apeba popeba (Galileo & Martins, 2006) Galileo & Martins, 2006

Galileo, Maria Helena M., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Wappes, James E., 2017, Two new species of Lamiinae, synonymies in Hemilophini, and corrections on the concept of four genera with transfers of three species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 4247 (4), pp. 445-460 : 446

Apeba popeba (Galileo & Martins, 2006) , comb. nov.

( Figs 13–14 )

Lycidola popeba Galileo & Martins, 2006: 789 ; Swift et al., 2010: 60 (distr.); Monné, 2016: 759 (cat.).

Galileo & Martins (2006) described Lycidola popeba based on a single male from Costa Rica. In doing so they commented that each elytron has three distinct carinae but failed to comment on the prosternal process. We observe that each elytron ( Fig. 13 ) has only two distinct, complete carinae, with the third and innermost only moderately distinct at basal third, becoming even less so toward apex. Additionally, the prosternal process ( Fig. 14 ) is very narrow.

Following the concept of Lycidola by Martins & Galileo (1991a), L. popeba should not have been included in this genus, since it does not have four carinae on each elytron and the prosternal process is narrow. Accordingly, Lycidola popeba is transferred to Apeba .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 14. 1 – 12, Elytral apex (odd numbers) and ventral side of the prothorax (even numbers): 1 – 2, Lycidola batesi, female; 3 – 4, L. expansa, male; 5 – 6, L. flavofasciata, female; 7 – 8, L. simulatrix, female; 9 – 10, Apeba barauna, paratype female; 11 – 12, A. togata, female. 13 – 14, Lycidola popeba, holotype male: 13, dorsal habitus; 14, ventral habitus.