Pseudosparna mantis Devesa & Santos-Silva, 2020

Nearns, Eugenio H., Swift, Ian P. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2023, Three new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on additional taxa, Zootaxa 5228 (2), pp. 137-156 : 144-145

Pseudosparna mantis Devesa & Santos-Silva, 2020

Pseudosparna mantis Devesa & Santos-Silva, 2020: 1

Remarks. This species was described from a single male specimen. Below we provide the first description of a female specimen.

Description. Female. Integument mostly dark brown; coxae, legs, and antennomere IV partially light brown; prothorax reddish-pink except at base, which is dark brown; ventrites I-III dark brown, IV-V pale yellowish.

Head. Vertical, subquadrate, frons with medial suture extending from clypeus to behind antennae, with scattered short, light colored, appressed setae, becoming darker behind antennal insertions. Eyes deeply emarginate, narrowest portion adjacent to antennae 5 ommatidia wide, upper lobe small, narrow. Genae slightly shorter than lower eye lobe. Antennae elongate, surpassing elytral apices by about 4 antennomeres. Scape elongate and cylindrical, slightly expanded apically, attaining mesocoxae in lateral view; antennomere III dark brown, moderately clothed in short, appressed, black setae, shorter than scape, longer IV; IV with basal 2/3 light brown, apical 1/3 dark brown; III-XI each similar in size and vestiture; antennomeres I-VI with few short, scattered, erect setae.

Thorax. Prothorax transverse, densely clothed dorsally in short, appressed, reddish pink setae, becoming sparse and dark brown to black ventrally; pleura with acute tubercles placed at basal 1/3 of pronotum, each feebly reflexed, slightly narrower than elytral humeri. Prosternum clothed in moderately dense pale setae; prosternal process narrow between coxae, expanded posteriorly, procoxal cavities closed. Mesoventrite of similar vestiture as prosternum, slightly exceeding midline of mesocoxae posteriorly, apex bidentate. Metaventrite of similar vestiture to pro- and mesovenrite, broad, flattened, unmodified; medial suture present for length of metaventrite. Elytra. Finely, abundantly punctate on anterior 5/6, gradually sparser toward apex; apex spiniform at outer angle, sinuously slightly oblique toward rounded sutural angle. Legs. With abundant yellowish pubescence not obscuring integument; profemora and protibiae lacking distinct projections seen in males; pro- and mesotibiae with short, erect black setae from basal quarter ventrally and from middle dorsally, distinctly denser about posterior third; metatibiae with short, erect, sparse black setae from basal quarter ventrally and from base dorsally, distinctly denser on posterior third. Metatarsomere I slightly longer than twice length of II–III together.

Abdomen. Ventrites with abundant yellowish pubescence not obscuring integument; apex of ventrite 5 subtruncate.

Dimensions (mm) (females). Total length, 6.50–7.5; prothoracic length, 0.9–1.0; anterior prothoracic width, 0.9–1.1; posterior prothoracic width, 1.0–1.2; maximum prothoracic width, 1.5–1.6; humeral width, 1.3–1.7; elytral length, 5.0–5.6.

Material examined. One male, Costa Rica: Prov. Heredia: 9km NE Vara Blanca, 1450–1550m, 10°14′N, 84°06′W, 17 Marzo 2005, INBio-OET-ALAS transect // 17 Marzo 2005, Finca Murillo, 15/RG/DBM/008 // Project ALAS IMB0003688889 ( MNCR) ; one female,same data except: 17Abril2005, 15/RG/DBM/008//IMB0003688890 ( MNCR) ; one male, same data except: 20 Marzo 2005, 15/M/06/056, IMB0003673808 ( MNCR) ; one male, same data except: 20 Marzo 2005, 15/M/06/055, IMB0003673502 ( MNCR) ; one female, same data except: 15/M/06/106 // +2 // IMB0003674852 ( MNCR); one female, same data except: 15/M/05/108 // IMB0003672348 ( MNCR) ; one female, same data except: 5 Abril 2005, 15/M/18/093 // IMB0003672090 ( MNCR) ; one female, same data except: 8 Marzo 2005, 15/M/05/30 // IMB0003674245 ( MNCR) ; one female, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Prov., Monteverde, Cerro Amigos summit, 1820m elev., 10°19′8.54″N, 84°47′37.54″W, Malaise trap, Nearns & Swift et al., 1 Oct 2013 ( NMNH) .