Tapeina rudifrons Marinoni, 1972

Santos-Silva, Antonio & Nascimento, Francisco E. de L., 2019, On the definition of Tapeinini, and description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2019023) 109, pp. 1-8 : 7-8

Tapeina rudifrons Marinoni, 1972

( Figs 17, 18 )

Tapeina rudifrons MARINONI, 1972:30 ; ZAJCIW, 1974:72 (distr.); MARINONI et al., 1992:111 (paratype); MONNÉ, 1994:49 (cat.); MONNÉ & GIESBERT, 1994:183 (checklist); JULIO et al., 2000:50 (holotype); DI IORIO, 2004:54 (distr.); MONNÉ, 2005:649 (cat.); MONNÉ & HOVORE, 2006:297 (checklist); WAPPES et al., 2006:24 (distr.); MARTINS et al., 2011:291 (distr.); WAPPES et al., 2013:12 (distr.); MONNÉ & MONNÉ, 2016:73 (holotype); MOURA & VON GROLL, 2017:456 (paratype); MONNÉ, 2018:883 (cat.).

This species was originally described from Brazil (Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Espírito Santo, São Paulo), Paraguay (Concepción), and Argentina (Salta, Formosa, Santiago del Estero). DI IORIO (2004) reported the species for the Paraguayan department of Alto Paraguay; WAPPES et al. (2006) recorded the species in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz; WAPPES et al. (2013) listed it in the Bolivian department of Tarija; and MARTINS et al. (2011) recorded it in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Originally, MARINONI (1972) listed some paratypes as being from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, which was true at that time. However, currently, the places where those paratypes were collected are in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

We are taking this opportunity to illustrate a paratype female ( Fig. 17 ), and another female ( Fig. 18 ) collected in Bolivia. Although MARINONI (1972) had drawings of females, only a frontal view photograph of the head of a female paratype has been published .

Material examined (only the specimen from Bolivia listed) BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Florida (Pampagrande), 1 female, 23.XI.1995, F. A. Langer col. ( ACMT) .

Figures

Figs 17–22. Tapeina rudifrons Marinoni, 1972: 17, paratype female, dorsal habitus; 18, female from Bolivia, dorsal habitus. Wappesicus wappesi gen. nov., sp. nov, holotype female: 19, head, frontal view; 20, dorsal habitus; 21, ventral habitus; 22, lateral habitus. Scale bar = 2.0 mm.