Ecliptoides Tavakilian &

Clarke, Robin O. S., 2009, Bolivian Rhinotragini I: New species of ECLIPTOIDES Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005 new status, and CLEPITOIDES new genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) Robin O. S. Clarke, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (43), pp. 563-576 : 566

Ecliptoides Tavakilian &

Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005, stat. nov.

Ommata (Ecliptoides) Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005: 37 .

Type-species: Ommata (Ecliptoides) rouperti Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005 (original designation).

Description: Generally more semi-opaque than translucent. Antennomeres VIII-X slightly lobate at outer side of apex, sometimes uniformly thickened, with XI forming weak club. Prothorax quadrate or slightly elongate (ca. 1.2 times longer than wide), pronotal punctures scabrous or alveolate. Mesosternal declivity abrupt ot relatively abrupt. Elytra without humero-apical costa; and may show decreased dehiscence; with short, semi-recumbent pubescence. Metasternum hirsute, basal half clothed with dense, semi-recumbent pubescence. Sides of male urosternite V not foliate, depression not deep and V-shaped. Outer apex of protibiae expanded laterally, sometimes into distinct tooth.

Sexual dichromatism: male prothorax orange-yellow, sides of pronotum with dusky, harp-shaped figure, or prothorax may be entirely black; females prothorax orange-yellow and pronotum with dusky candelabrum. In both sexes of all species margins of elytra black, except in some males of E. julietae they may be entirely yellowish, and male of E. titoi partially black.

Species included in this genus: E. julietae sp. nov., E. vargasi sp. nov., E. titoi sp. nov. (from Bolivia); and E. azadi Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2003 , E. hovorei Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2003 , and E. hovorei Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005 (from French Guiana).