Paraphygopoda nappae, Clarke, 2014

Clarke, Robin O. S., 2014, Bolivian Rhinotragini VIII: new genera and species related to Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (24), pp. 341-362 : 353-354

Paraphygopoda nappae sp. nov.

Figs. 5A, 5B

Holotype male: 13.6 mm. Deposited at MNKM. Female: not known.

Diagnosis: in P. nappae metafemora long, base of clave just passing apex of abdomen (in the other species of the genus apex of clave just passing apex of abdomen); in P. nappae translucent panels of elytra reduced to small, narrow fascia (in the other species of the genus broader and longer).

Description of holotype: elegant species; total length 13.6 mm. Prothorax subcylindrical, 1.12 wider than head with eyes.

Colour: almost entirely black; ligula and galea testaceous-yellow; translucent panels on elytra somewhat olive in colour; metatarsi creamy-yellow (lobes of metatarsomere III dusky at apex).

Structure: rostrum moderately wide, but long, width/ length 2.27. Maxillary palps moderately long; galea long. Labrum rather large, nearly rectangular. Inferior lobes of eyes slightly longer than wide; and contiguous (width of one lobe/interocular distance 7.75). Superior lobes of eyes widely separated, distance between them/width of one lobe 3.4; mesally with small ommatidia, arranged in 9-10 rows. Antennae rather long (and more filiform than in most species); antennomere VI almost filiform; III long, 1.60 longer than scape; IV 0.71 length of III; V distinctly shorter than III, but longer than IV, and equal in length to VI and VII; VII very narrow at base, weakly widened at apex; VII-X incrementally shorter and crassate, but always elongate and only moderately serrate (the serrations of VII and VIII weakly clipped at apex).

Prothorax with sides converging for apical third, weakly emarginate for basal third, moderately round- ed for middle third. Front margin 0.78 width of hind margin. Sides widest slightly before middle, prothoracic quotient 2.16. Surface of pronotum moderately irregular; with prominent, long, acuminate, smooth callus at midline. Prosternum almost planar with weakly raised front border; with short, abrupt inclination to base of prosternal process. Prosternal process flat; base of process about 15 times narrower than width of procoxal cavity, hardly wider at apex (but surface details hidden by dense pubescence).

Elytra strongly subulate, subfissate for more than apical half; short (length/width 1.98); strongly narrowed to base of apical lobes; the latter moderately divergent; each lobe with almost parallel sides (slightly widened at pre-apex), obliquely truncate at apex (apical margin slightly longer laterally). Basal half of each elytron with rather ill-defined, small, translucent panel commencing from behind shoulders.

Width of mesocoxal cavity 2.16 wider than base of mesosternal process. Mesosternum rather short, length of mesosternum/length of metasternum 0.63. Metathorax not broad; anteriorly not strongly round- ed at sides, posteriorly strongly rounded to middle of metasternum. Metasternum somewhat abruptly, broadly tumid to either side of midline, leaving metasternal process inclined to, and well below level of, mesosternal process; longitudinal suture short (hardly reaching basal half of metasternum, but rather deep for apical half). Metepisternum moderately convex; the sides rather strongly narrowed to subacuminate apex.

Abdomen relatively short, narrow basally, slightly widening to middle, parallel-sided towards apex; urosternite I elongate and subconical; II-IV transverse (about 1.5 wider than long), somewhat rectangular (sides parallel, but weakly constricted between segments). Urosternite V slightly down-turned; shorter than other segments, but as wide as IV at base; strongly contracted to broadly emarginate apex; the latter winged, but strongly rounded (when viewed from the side); soleate depression replaced by flat U-shaped area without raised sides. Abdominal process rather small, short, equilateral triangle (with small blunt apical extension), almost planar with rest of abdomen. Apical tergite rather short, trapezoidal; apical half depressed to either side of midline; apex strongly emarginate, not overlapping apex of urosternite V.

Legs: ratio length front/middle/hind leg 1.0:1.3:3.3. Front and middle legs: body length/length of legs 2.6 and 2.0, respectively. Front leg: tibia narrow, and gradually widening to apex. Middle leg: femur 1.4 longer than mesotibia; length of femur/lateral width of clave 4.1; tibia moderately slender, gradually widening to apex. Hind leg: noticeably slender, and long (body length 0.8 length of leg); femora moderately strongly pedunculate-clavate; clave weakly abrupt, peduncle narrow and very long (lengths clave/peduncle 0.55); metatibia bisinuate (when viewed from the side); regularly, but rather weakly thickened to apex.; metatarsus rather short, about one third length of metatibia; metatarsomere I robust, moderately strongly widened to apex; II also widened and moderately short; lobes of metarsomere III moderately small, somewhat acuminate, and divergent.

Male genitalia: aedeagus was not extracted from the abdomen, but apex of tegmen and middle lobe clearly visible; and most similar to aedeagus of P. viridimicans . Measurements (mm): 1 male: total length 13.6; length of pronotum 4.1; width of pronotum 3.7; length of elytra 9.1; width at humeri 4.6.

Holotype: male, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Andreas Ibañez Province, Potrerillo de Guenda , 17°40’S / 63°20’W, 06-08.XII.2011, Wappes, Lingafelter, Morris & Woodley col. ( MNKM).

Etymology: this species is named after Dr. Dilma Solange Napp for her work on the Rhopalophorini .

Figures

FIGURES 3‑5: 3, Paraphygopoda albitarsis (Klug, 1825): A, male; B, female. 4, Paraphygopoda viridimicans (Fisher, 1952): A, male; B, female. 5, Paraphygopoda nappae sp. nov.: A, male holotype; B, male ventral aspect.