Cereopsius mimospilotus Breuning 1980

Medina, Milton Norman, Mantilla, Leslae Kay, Cabras, Analyn & Vitali, Francesco, 2021, Catalogue of the genus Cereopsius Pascoe 1857 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of a new species from Mindanao, Zootaxa 5061 (2), pp. 383-391 : 385

Cereopsius mimospilotus Breuning 1980

Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 56 (2): 172.

Distribution: Philippines: Mindanao (Bukidnon, Zamboanga del Norte *)

Type deposition: HOLOTYPE (♂)— National Museum of Natural History , Paris.

Scientific synonym: Cereopsius cabigasi Vives 2005

Note. Vives (2005) described Cereopsius cabigasi indicating a relation with C. luctor due to the elytral pattern. In reality, this taxon can show four to six elytral spots (six in C. luctor ), a scape apically enlarged (conical in C. luctor ), a more or less yellowish pubescence (pure white in C. luctor ) and a variable pronotal band of pubescence. The examination of genitalia revealed that C. mimospilotus is actually very closely related to C. quaestor , from which it differs in the reddish unicolor antennae (black and with antennomere 5 ringed of white pubescence in C. quastor ). Nonetheless, some male specimens with bicolour antennae and females with indistinct white antennomeres call into question the validity of this taxon.