Strongylaspis dohrni Lameere, 1903

Pirkl, Jiří, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Casari, Sônia A., 2019, On the type depository of some species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), especially of the holotype of Quercivir dohrni Lameere, 1912, Zootaxa 4603 (3), pp. 520-536 : 523-525

Strongylaspis dohrni Lameere, 1903

( Figures 13–16 )

Strongylaspis (Strongylaspis) Dohrni Lameere, 1903: 30 .

Strongylaspis dohrni ; Monné, 2018c: 101 (cat.).

According to Lameere (1903) (translated): ‘I found a female from Mexico (Stark [apparently, the surname of the collector]) among the Prionides that Dr. H. Dohrn [Heinrich Wolfang Ludwig Dohrn] gave me and who remained undetermined in her father’s collection [Carl August Dohrn].”

Lameere (1903) separated the species of Strongylaspis (at that time as a subgenus) in the first alternative of couplet (translated): “a. Antennae with the antennomere III at most as long as the length of IV plus half of V, and anten- nae not reaching the posterior third of the elytra in female, or the apex in male”, leading to S. Kraepelini Lameere, 1903, S. dohrni , and S. championi Bates, 1884 ; “aa. Antennae with antennomere III longer than the length of IV plus half of V”, leading to the other species. However, the photographs of the holotype of S. dohrni show that the antennae evidently reach the posterior third of the elytra. Furthermore, antennomere III in females of S. batesi Lameere, 1903 is distinctly shorter than the length of IV plus half of V (even in the syntype female), and it is not about as long in females of S. corticaria (even in the syntype female), both included in the alternative of couplet “aa”. Not considering the antennal length, the differences pointed out for separating S. dohrni from S. championi appear to be reliable, especially the shape of the elytral apex: without spine in the former, spinose in the latter.

Monné (2018c) reported the holotype being deposited in the CMSP collection, but it is in the ZMPA collection, as correctly reported by Tavakilian & Chevillotte (2018).

Figures

FIGURES 9–16. Nothopleurus ebeninus, holotype male: 9) Dorsal habitus; 10) Ventral habitus; 11) Lateral habitus; 12) Labels. Strongylaspis dohrni, holotype female: 13) Dorsal habitus; 14) Ventral habitus; 15) Lateral habitus; 16) Labels.