Pirangoclytus purus (Bates, 1870)

Monné, Marcela L., Monné, Miguel A., Souza, Diego de Santana & Carli, Camila da Silva, 2022, New distribution records of Cerambycinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the Brazilian Amazon, Zoologia (e 22009) 39, pp. 1-14 : 4

Pirangoclytus purus (Bates, 1870)

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Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso do Sul), Peru, Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz). We add a new state record from Rondônia, Brazil.

New record. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Itapuã do Oeste, Flona Jamari ; 09°15’36”S, 62°54’46”W; 1–24.XI.2017 Z.M. Silva and J.A. Rafael leg.; 1 female; INPA .

Species diagnosis. This species differs from the other species of Pirangoclytus Martins & Galileo, 2011 by the integument of the head, basal antennal segments and anterior half of pronotum reddish orange; posterior half of pronotum covered with yellow pubescence; and elytron black with three distinctive yellow pubescence fasciae, usually forming a triangle in the middle ( Martins and Galileo 2011: 199, fig. 160). The color patterns of this species is highly variable, as demonstrated by Santos-Silva et al. (2019: 455, figs 19–34).

Figures

Figures 1–5. New records of Cerambycinae in the Amazon Region: (1) Achryson pictum, female, from Roraima; (2) Hamaederus bipartitus, male, from Roraima; (3) Coleoxestia glabripennis, male, from Rondônia; (4) Pirangoclytus purus, female, from Rondônia; (5) Diorus biapiculatus, female, from Acre. Scale bar: 1 mm.