Anelaphus magnipunctatus (Knull) Lingafelter, 2020

Lingafelter, Steven W., 2020, Review of species of Anelaphus Linsley and its new synonym Gymnopsyra Linsley from the United States and Canada with description of a new species, synonymies, distributional notes and an illustrated identification key (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini), Insecta Mundi 2020 (798), pp. 1-30 : 11-12

Anelaphus magnipunctatus (Knull) , new combination

( Fig. 1k , 5 a–d)

Elaphidion (Anoplium) magnipunctata Knull 1934: 12 .

Gymnopsyra chemsaki Linsley 1963: 98 , new synonym.

Discussion. In his monograph on North American Cerambycidae, Linsley (1963) described Gymnopsyra chemsaki and distinguished it from G. magnipunctata ( Knull 1934) by “the dense, subcontiguous punctures of the elytral base, much denser punctures of the head, and more abundant pubescence of the elytra”. He further wrote, “The more widely separated eyes and impunctate band at the apex of the pronotum appear to separate aspera [ Fig. 5e, f ] from chemsaki .” Examination of the holotype of G. chemsaki ( Fig. 5 a–b), specimens identified as G. magnipunctata by Knull in the Southwestern Research Station collection ( Fig. 5 c–d), along with material collected from the Baboquivari and Dragoon Mountains in Arizona and the Big Bend region in Texas show that these are the same species. Gymnopsyra chemsaki is therefore a new synonym of G. magnipunctata . Because Anelaphus is masculine and the original genus, Gymnopsyra is feminine, the epithet is changed from magnipunctata to magnipunctatus for this new combination.

Material examined. USA: Arizona: Cochise Co., Cochise Stronghold , 31°56.746 ′ N, 109°57.555 ′ W, 1456m, 9 July 2016 (2, SWLC) ; Cochise Co., Cochise Stronghold , 2–11 July 2012, sweet bait, F. W. Skillman, Jr. (3, FWSC) ; Cochise Co., Cochise Stronghold , 2 August 2010, MV & Blacklight, F. W. Skillman, Jr. (1, FWSC) ; Cochise Co., west slope of Dragoon Mountains, Middlemarch Road 20.5 km NE of highway 80, 1695m, 31°51.483 ′ N, 109°57.750 ′ W, 3 July 2018, MV/UV lights, S. W. Lingafelter (3, SWLC) ; Cochise Co., 5 mi. W. Portal , S.W.R.S., 5400 ′, 25 June 1957, M. Statham (2, SWRS) ; Cochise Co., 28 mi. E. Douglas, Guadalupe Canyon , 24 June 1970 (1, SWRS) ; Mohave Co., Hualapai Mtns. , 6 August 2010, MV & blacklight, F. W. Skillman, Jr. (2, FWSC) ; Pima Co., Molino Basin , July 1, 1973 (1, SWLC) ; Pima Co., Baboquivari Mountains, Brown Canyon , Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge , W Brown Bear Canyon Road, 1257 m, 31°46 ′ 20.1 ″ N, 111°33 ′ 17.3 ″ W, 21–22 June 2018, MV/ UV lights, S. W. Lingafelter (2, SWLC) ; Pima Co., Madera Canyon , 2 August 1975, 24 July 1988, 26 July 1990, D. Ahart (3, FWSC) ; Texas: Presidio Co., Big Bend Ranch State Park , 7 June 1994, D. W. Sundberg (2, FWSC) ; New Mexico: Grant Co., FR153, 5 mi. W. Tyrone , 4 July 2003, light, F. W. Skillman (5, FWSC) ; Grant Co., Harden Cienega Road , 5 mi. N. SR78, 2.5 mi. E. AZ/NM line, 22 July 2015, F. W. Skillman, Jr. (1, FWSC) .

Figures

Figure 1. Species of Anelaphus occurring in America north of Mexico (photographs are not to scale). a) A. albofasciatus (Linell). b) A. aspera (Knull). c) A. belkini Skiles. d) A. brevidens (Schaeffer). e) A. brummermannae Lingafelter. f) A. cinereus (Olivier). g) A. debilis (LeConte). h) A. dentatus Chemsak. i) A. inermis (Newman). j) A. inflaticollis Chemsak. k) A. magnipunctatus (Knull).

Figure 5.Former Gymnopsyra species. a) G. chemsaki Linsley, holotype, dorsal habitus. b) G. chemsaki, holotype, pronotum. c) G. magnipunctata (Knull), SWRS specimen determined by Knull, dorsal habitus. d) G. magnipunctata, pronotum. e) G. aspera (Knull), holotype. f) G. aspera, holotype, pronotum.