Caraphia seriata ( Chemsak & Linsley, 1984 ) Ohbayashi & Lin & Yamasako, 2016

Ohbayashi, Nobuo, Lin, Mei-Ying & Yamasako, Junsuke, 2016, Revision of the Caraphiini, New Tribe (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae), Zootaxa 4084 (2), pp. 187-217 : 200-212

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075457
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E0487D8-FF99-5738-FF5D-2F29FC40FA86
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Caraphia seriata ( Chemsak & Linsley, 1984 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

15. Caraphia seriata ( Chemsak & Linsley, 1984) View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Figs 40, 41 View FIGURES 37 – 49 , 64 View FIGURES 50 – 65 , 80 View FIGURES 66 – 81 , 96 View FIGURES 82 – 97 , 112 View FIGURES 98 – 113 )

Noctileptura seriata Chemsak & Linsley, 1984: 283 View in CoL (Type locality: Livingston, Guatemala); Chemsak et al., 1992: 98; Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 167; Monné, 1995: 116; Turnbow et al., 2003: 19; Lingafelter et al., 2014: 318.

Diagnosis. Female: BL= 9.1 mm; EW= 2.6 mm. Body dark reddish brown. Head densely, and pronotum shallowly punctured with short recumbent whitish scales. Antennae short, only the last segment exceeding elytral apex; scape slender and moderate in length, 2.5 times as long as wide, relative lengths of segments from base to apex: 54: 13: 61: 53: 61: 50: 49: 41: 41: 39: 66. Pronotum longer than basal width, nearly straightly convergent apically with slight constriction at apical fourth. Elytra ca 2.3 times as long as wide, densely and rather regularly foveate in rows; scales slender, suberect and barely curved, nearly 1.5 times as long as the diameter of each fovea, alternating on rows of foveae.

Male: Unknown.

Type material examined. Holotype: ♀, Livingston, Guatemala, 6 May, Barber and Schwarz coll. (no collecting year) ( USNM, Type number: 105726).

Distribution. Guatemala.

Remarks. This species is distinguishable from another Central American species by the elytral scales which are alternatively associated with row of foveae. Also it differs from other congeners by the distinctly long pronotum and short elytra.

16. Caraphia lingafelteri N. Ohbayashi & Yamasako , sp. nov.

( Figs 42, 49 View FIGURES 37 – 49 , 65 View FIGURES 50 – 65 , 81 View FIGURES 66 – 81 , 97 View FIGURES 82 – 97 , 113 View FIGURES 98 – 113 , 127 View FIGURES 122 – 127 , 139 View FIGURES 128 – 136 )

Description. Male: BL= 12.2 mm; EW= 3.6 mm. Body dark brown; elytra, antennae except dark scapes, and legs reddish to yellowish brown. Head and pronotum moderately furnished with pale yellow setaceous recumbent curved hairs; elytra provided with short scales along suture, and suberect scales which are 2.0 times as long as the diameter of each fovea along every row of foveae; scutellum, scapes and legs furnished with short whitish hairs, and ventral surface moderately with recumbent whitish hairs.

Head slightly longer than wide, widest across eyes, broader than base of prothorax, temples behind the posterior margin of prominent eyes distinct, as long as genae, then narrowed to neck; disk densely punctured; labrum short, semicircular; clypeus produced in front, trapezoidal; frons inclined anteriorly; genae short; vertex depressed in U-shape with an indistinct median line between distinctly elevated antennal insertions; eyes very large, coarsely faceted, deeply emarginate near the basal third of lobes around antennal insertions; interocular distance rather wide, ca 0.4 times as wide as head across eyes. Antennae rather short, only the last segment exceeding the elytral apex; scape 2.5 times as long as wide, shorter than 3rd, subequal to 4th; basal 4 antennomeres cylindrical, 5th to 7th moderately carinate, and 8th to the last ones square shaped in cross section with distinct carinae; relative lengths of segments from base to apex 64: 14: 69: 64: 76: 68: 65:60: 58: 58: 63.

Prothorax widest near middle, same as long as wide, constricted deeply at apical fourth and shallowly at basal fourth, with lateral swellings near middle; disk closely punctured with reticulated sculptures, provided with a pair of distinct protuberant at apical third and rudimentary swellings at basal third; apex narrowly marginate, 0.70 times as wide as basal width. Scutellum lingulate.

Elytra about 2.2 times as long as basal width, widest near base, basal four-fifths nearly parallel-sided, then gently narrowed toward the apices; apex not truncate, roundly narrowed to sutural angles; disk provided with irregularly arranged quadrate shaped deep foveae which are closest beside scutellum, and smaller and shallower at apical third; every foveae associated with recumbent spindle shaped scales which are about 0.13 times as wide as long, 2.5 times as long as the diameter of each fovea.

Legs moderately long and slender; femora sub-linear; tibiae slender and slightly cambered, hind tarsi with 1 st segment shorter than 2nd and 3rd combined; 3rd tarsal segment deeply cleft.

Genitalia ( Fig. 127 View FIGURES 122 – 127 ) with paramere of tegmen short, 2.63 times as long as basal width, strongly narrowed toward bluntly pointed apex, 0.15 times as long as tegmen. Median lobe with dorsal plate almost reaching the apex of ventral plate; basal struts slightly shorter than a half of median lobe. Endophallus (Fig. 139) rather simple, without sclerotized armature on MPH and APH; MPH with minute spicules throughout on apical half, slightly inflated in basal half and bent ventrally like an elbow; APH slightly swollen cylindrically.

Female. Unknown.

Type series. Holotype: ♂, Nicaragua: Matagalpa Prov., Selva Negra Mountain Resort lower forest , 1220– 1300 meters, 12°59.89'N, 85°54.64'W, 16–17-VI-2007, S. Lingafelter, N. E. Woodley, lights. ( USNM). GoogleMaps

Etymology. This species is named after Dr. Steven Lingafelter who kindly provided the specimen for our study.

Distribution. Nicaragua.

Remarks. This is a Central American species and belonging to the group in which the elytral scales mostly associated along every row of foveae. In this group, this new species easily distinguishable by distinctly inflated sides of pronotum, and roundly narrowed elytral apex to sutural angles.