Stultutragus romani (Aurivillius, 1919), comb. nov.

(Fig. 18)

Ommata (Eclipta) romani Aurivillius, 1919: 3, fig. 2; Zajciw, 1974: 56 (distr.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 97 (checklist); Monné, 1993: 26 (cat.); Monné, 2005: 491 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2005: 122 (checklist); 2006: 121 (checklist); Clarke, 2010: 257.

Clarke (2010) erected Stultutragus to place specimens from Ommata (Eclipta) Bates, 1873, and recorded: “Scrutiny of photographs available on the internet suggest that O. (Eclipta) romani Aurivillius, 1919, although lacking the contrasting color combination, also might be placed in Stultutragus when specimens become available for examination.” The general appearance of Eclipta romani is very similar to Stultutragus cerdai (Peñaherrera- Leiva & Tavakilian, 2003), described from French Guiana. The former differs from the latter mainly by the absence of the black macula on the pronotum and elytral base.

Among the characters of Stultutragus, Clarke (2010) recorded: “Male urosternite V characteristic when viewed laterally: sides foliate (expanded ventrally, and prolonged into “wings”); and when viewed ventrally: these “wings” (now, looking like spines) demarcating a deep, horseshoe-shaped depression occupying half of ventral surface.” Aurivillius (1919) did not mention anything about the last urosternite of E. romani . However, the examination of specimens deposited in the MNRJ (Miguel A. Monné pers. comm.) shows that males of that species have the character. Thus, E. romani needs to be transferred to Stultutragus .

Stultutragus romani (Fig. 18) can be included in the alternative of couplet “4”, from Bezark et al. (2011):

4(3). Elytra with a single distal black band. Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso).................... S. romani (Aurivillius, 1919) Elytra with two black bands (one basal and another apical), separated by a wide.... yellowish area (wider than the two black bands together). French Guiana ................................... S. cerdai (Peñaherrera-Leiva & Tavakilian, 2003) Elytra with three black bands (basal, central, and apical), or two black bands close to each other (yellowish area between them distinctly narrower than the black areas together), or the yellowish areas are surrounded by the dark area................ 5