Placosternus guttatus (Chevrolat, 1860)

Ferreira, Gabriel S. & Mermudes, José Ricardo M., 2023, New records and taxonomic notes in Clytini, Dichophyiini, and Trachyderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) from South America, and reinstatement of Placosternus Hopping, 1937, Zootaxa 5319 (1), pp. 148-150 : 150

Placosternus guttatus (Chevrolat, 1860) ( Fig. 1B )

Distribution. MEXICO (Tabasco, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz), GUATEMALA, BELIZE, NICARAGUA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, VENEZUELA, and COLOMBIA.

New record. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais: [Passa Quatro], Faz [enda] dos Campos, 1500m, 2 specimens, 11.xii.[19]15, ex-coll. J.F. Zikan. ( CEIOC 17031 ) .

Diagnosis. Integument black; antennae and legs reddish; pedicel with tuft of long and erect reddish setae, with aspect of spine; pronotum with three transverse band with yellow pubescence ( Martins & Galileo 2011).

Figures

FIGURE 1. New records in Cerambycidae.A: Pirangoclytus sulphurosus (Di Iorio, 2006); B: Placosternus guttatus (Chevrolat, 1860); C: Solangebira tacuarembo (Napp & Martins, 2002); D: Exallancyla tuberculicollis (Aurivillius, 1920); E. Prosternal and mesoventral processes of P. guttatus; F: Prosternal and mesoventral processes of Megacyllene mellyi (Chevrolat, 1862) (CEIOC 17072). Scale bar: 1 mm.