Amydetes praeusta Blanchard, 1846

Amydetes praeustus Blanchard, 1846; Laporte, 1833: 127; 1840: 264; Lacordaire, 1857: 334; Blackwelder, 1957: 360. (lis.); McDermott, 1966: 77 (cat.).

Description 1. Head with antennae longer than 1/2 body length, dark-brown, flabellae long, with about twenty articles. Prothorax sinuous at borders, convex, strongly punctuate, black, with median depression and anterior margin yellow. Elytron golden-yellow, apex black, somewhat deflexed posteriad. Legs black.

Type-material. We were not able to find the type-material in Blanchard ex-coll. (MNHN) nor at any other collection studied.

Remarks. Blanchard (1846) states that Amydetes praeusta is very close to A. apicalis, but can be distinguished by its shorter antenna, longer elytron and black pronotum. The original description did not allow us to properly identify the studied specimens as A. praeusta . As we did not find the type-material of this species, we keep the originial description.