Pachymerola vitticollis Bates, 1892

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 : 6

Pachymerola vitticollis Bates, 1892

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Pachymerola vitticollis Bates 1892: 161 ; Aurivillius 1912: 335 (cat.); Blackwelder 1946: 580 (checklist); Giesbert 1987: 44; Chemsak et al. 1992: 56 (checklist); Giesbert 1993: 144 (key); Monné 1993c: 144 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 85 (checklist); Noguera and Chemsak 1996: 400 (checklist); Monné 2005: 305 (cat.); Monné and Hovore 2006: 89 (checklist); Bezark 2019: 75 (distr.); Monné 2022a: 517 (cat.).

Bates (1892) described P. vitticollis based on a single specimen from Mexico (Guerrero). Bezark (2019) recorded the species from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Giesbert (1993) provided a key to species of the genus, and separated P. vitticollis as follows: “Pronotum black, with a yellowish-grey pubescent vitta on each side of disk. Antennae of male about as long as body. Length 8.5 mm. Guerrero, Mexico,” leading to P. vitticollis ; “Pronotum red, orange, or bicolored (rarely black), without pubescent vittae. Antennae of males distinctly shorter than body,” leading to the other species of the genus. However, the pronotum in P. vitticollis can be entirely black ( Fig. 11 ) or bicolored, with a large central area reddish ( Fig. 12–13 ). Even so, the key is still helpful because P. vitticollis is the only species of the genus with distinct lateral pubescent bands on the pronotum. The distal ventrites also can be entirely black, orangish, or dark reddish-brown.

Material examined. MEXICO, JALISCO (new state record): MX 80, 7 km N Autlán road to Microondas San Francisco , 3 males, 2 females, 27.VII.2011, Skillman and Turnbow leg. (2 males, 1 female, FWSC; 1 male, 1 female, MZSP) .

NEOIBIDIONINI Monné, 2012

COMPSINA Martins and Galileo, 2007

Figures

Figures 9–13. Cerambycinae spp. 9–10) Anatinomma insulare Chemsak and Linsley, 1964, male: 9) Dorsal habitus; 10) Ventral habitus. 11–13) Pachymerola vitticollis Bates, 1892, females, dorsal habitus: 11) Specimen 1. 12) Specimen 2. 13) Specimen 2, pronotum.