CERAMBYCINAE, Latreille, 1802

Peck, Stewart B., 2011, The beetles of Martinique, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2011 (178), pp. 1-57 : 33-35

SUBFAMILY CERAMBYCINAE

TRIBE METHIINI

Methia necydalea (Fabricius) 1798: 148 ( Saperda ); Gahan 1895: 122; Ramos 1946: 41; Villiers 1980a: 130; Philips and Ivie 1998: 72; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 71; Dalens and Touroult 2007: 291; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 280; Touroult 2007: 6; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 20. = Methia pusilla Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 468 of Guadeloupe. Distribution. Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Désirade, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Mona, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Barthélemy, St. Croix, St. John, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, Nevis, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Union. USA (TX- FL-VA) to Mexico, Belize to Argentina; widespread New World. Notes. Taken at lights, mostly in dry forests. Host trees: Sloanea spp. , Inga spp. , Laguncularia spp. , Conocarpus spp. , Rhizophora spp. , Avicennia spp.

TRIBE ACHRYSONINI

Achryson quadrimaculatum (Fabricius) 1792: 328 ( Callidium ); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 75. = A. surinamum sensu Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 461 of Guadeloupe. = Achryson ornatipenne Perroud 1855: 383 ; Gahan 1895: 92; Villiers 1980c: 272 (error), corrected in Villiers 1980e: 595 (synonymy). Distribution. Guadeloupe, Martinique. Trinidad, Aruba, Costa Rica to Argentina; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Achryson surinamum (Linnaeus) 1767: 632 ( Cerambyx ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 461; Gahan 1895: 92; Chemsak 1966: 211; Villiers 1980a: 130; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 74; Dalens and Touroult 2007: 291; Touroult 2007: 6; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. Distribution. Antigua, Barbados, Carriacou, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent. SW USA to Trinidad to Argentina; widespread New World. Notes. Host trees: Acacia spp. , Leucaena spp. , Lonchocarpus spp. , Tamarindus spp.

TRIBE EBURIINI

Eburia decemmaculata (Fabricius) 1775: 181 ( Stenocorus ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 462 ( Dissacanthus ); Gahan 1895: 94; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 563; Chemsak 1966: 212; Villiers 1980a: 130, 1980c: 277; Cooter 1983: 185; Bennett and Alam 1985: 28; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 78; Vitali and Touroult 2005: 67 (larva); Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. Distribution. Antigua, Dominica, Guadeloupe,? Martinique, Montserrat, St. Barthélemy, St. Croix, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Martin ; Lesser Antilles endemic. Notes. Host trees: Delonix spp. , Hippomane mancinella L., Leucaena spp. , Acacia spp. In dry zone forests.

Eburia dejeani Gahan 1895: 94 ; Villiers 1980c: 278; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 80. Distribution. Martinique, not Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Notes. In dry zone forests, especially mangroves.

[ Eburia inermis (Fleutiaux and Sallé) 1890: 461 ( Pantomallus ); Gahan 1895: 93; Villiers 1980c: 280; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 84; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. Distribution. Guadeloupe (type locality), Montserrat; not Martinique (misidentification of specimen of E. insulana by Villiers); Lesser Antilles endemic. Notes. In dry to wet forests.]

Eburia insulana Gahan 1895: 93 ; Villiers 1979b: 96 (lectotype), 1980c: 280; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 82; Touroult 2007: 6. Distribution. Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent (type locality), Union; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Eburia octomaculata Chevrolat 1862: 265 ; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 462 ( Dissacanthus ); Gahan 1895: 96; Villiers 1980a: 130, 1980c: 280; Monné and Hovore 2005: 41; Bennett and Alam 1985: 28; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 77; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. Distribution. Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitts; widespread Antilles endemic. Notes. Host trees: Citrus spp., Eugenia spp. , Inga spp. , Tamarindus spp. In dry to mid-humid forests. This species, common in Guadeloupe, was not known from Martinique, until it was recently collected near Fort-de- France ( Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 77). It may be a recent introduction.

TRIBE ELAPHIDIINI

Curtomerus flavus (Fabricius) 1775: 191 ( Callidium ); Ramos 1946: 42 ( Cylindera ); Chemsak 1966: 212; Villiers 1980a: 131, 1980c: 282; Bennett and Alam 1985: 28; Ivie 1985: 309; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 88; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 280; Touroult 2007: 7; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 17. = Cyrtomerus pilicornis Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 465 of Guadeloupe; Gahan 1895: 108 ( Cylindera ). Distribution. Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, British Virgin Islands (Guana, Virgin Gorda), Cuba, Désirade, Dominica, Grand Cayman, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Mona, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Croix, St. John, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent. USA (FL), Central and South America ; widespread New World; widely spread by commerce; to Hawaii, Tahiti, Marquesas Islands, and Philippines. Notes. Polyphagous on many tree genera.

Nesanoplium puberulum (Fleutiaux and Sallé) 1890: 464 ( Cyrtomerus ); Gahan 1895: 108; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 571; Chemsak 1966: 214; Villiers 1980a: 131, 1980c: 283, 1980f: 98 (lectotype); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 89; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 21. Distribution. Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe (type locality), Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique (record needs confirmation, possibly confused with N. dalensi Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a of St. Lucia), St. Barthélemy, St. Vincent, Tortola; not Montserrat; widespread Antilles endemic. Genus endemic to West Indies. Notes. Host trees: Inga spp. , Hymenaea spp. , Tamarindus spp. , Acacia spp. , Cytharexylum spp. , Coccoloba uvifera . In dry and moist forests.

Stizocera daudini Chalumeau and Touroult 2004b: 751, 2005a: 93 . Distribution. Martinique; single island endemic. Notes. Reared from dead branches.

TRIBE IBIDIONINI

Neocompsa cylindricollis (Fabricius) 1798: 146 ( Heterachtes ); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 109 ( Stenocorus ); Valentine and Ivie 2005: 280; Touroult 2007: 7; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. = Heterachthes quadrimaculata Haldeman 1847: 43 (not Fabricius 1792: 328); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 464 ( Ibidion ); Gahan 1895: 107 ( Compsa ); Chemsak 1966: 215; Woodruff et al. 1998: 16. = N. quadrimaculata (Fabricius) 1792: 328 ; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 464; Villiers 1980a: 131, 1980c: 291, 1980e: 595; Vitali and Touroult 2005: 68 (larva); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 109; Dalens and Touroult 2007: 291. Distribution. Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Les Saintes, Martinique, Montserrat, Mustique, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Tortola. Trinidad; widespread Antilles and Latin America . Notes. Polyphagous on many tree genera.

Neocompsa fulgens (Fisher) 1932: 48 ( Heterachtes ); Villiers 1979b: 97, 1980a: 131, 1980c: 292; Chemsak et al. 1992: 52; Monné and Hovore 2005: 82; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 108. Distribution. Dominica (type locality), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Union; Lesser Antilles endemic. Notes. Host trees: Hippomane mancinella , Piscidia spp. , Thespesia spp.

TRIBE PLECTROMERINI

Plectromerus fasciatus (Gahan) 1895: 109 ( Pentomacrus ); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 112, 2005b: 158 (lectotype); Touroult 2007: 12; Nearns and Branham 2008: 33 ; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257. Distribution. Grenada, Martinique, St. Vincent; not Montserrat, not Cuba; Lesser Antilles endemic.

TRIBE CALLICHROMATINI

Mionochroma rufescens (Gahan) 1895: 113 ( Callichroma ); Villiers 1980c: 296, 1980f: 98 (lectotype); Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 116. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia (type locality),?St. Thomas; Lesser Antilles endemic?; not Mexico and Guyana.

TRIBE TILLOMORPHINI

Bonfilsia pejoti Chalumeau and Touroult 2004a: 189 ; 2005a: 127. Distribution. Martinique; single island endemic. Genus endemic to Lesser Antilles. Notes. Probably a mimic of ants.

Gourbeyrella madininae Chalumeau and Touroult 2004a: 192, 2005a: 125 , Touroult 2007:12. Distribution. Martinique; single island endemic. Notes. Genus endemic to Lesser Antilles.

TRIBE BOTHRIOSPILINI

Chlorida festiva (Linnaeus) 1758: 389 ( Cerambyx ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 462; Gahan 1895: 93; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 93; Villiers 1980a: 130, 1980c: 274; Bennett and Alam 1985: 28; Woodruff et al. 1998: 15; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 130; Touroult 2007: 7; Ivie et al. 2008b: 257; Pérez- Gelabert 2008: 119. Distribution. Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Croix, St. Lucia, St. Vincent. USA (FL), Central and South America to Argentina; widespread New World. Introduced to Old World; São Tome (Gulf of Guinea). Notes. Polyphagous on many tree genera.

TRIBE TRACHYDERINI

SUBTRIBE TRACHYDERINA

[ Oxymerus basalis (Dalman) 1823: 65 ( Trachyderes ); Villiers 1980c: 306. Distribution. Martinique (introduced, cited from a single old specimen, not established); introduced to Lesser Antilles. Venezuela to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia.]

Trachyderes (Dendrobias) maxillosus Dupont 1834: 44 ; Villiers 1980c: 303; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 135. Distribution. Martinique; single island endemic. Not Nicaragua.

Trachyderes (Trachyderes) succinctus (Linnaeus) 1758: 391 ( Cerambyx ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 467; Gahan 1895: 119; Villiers 1980c: 304; Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 134; Pérez-Gelabert 2008: 119. Distribution. Barbados, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Martinique, St. Croix, St. Martin, St. Thomas, Union. Honduras to Argentina; widespread Antilles and Latin America . Notes. Larvae bore in wood of many tree genera.