Protospondylis Linsley, 1942

Santos-Silva, Antonio & Shute, Sharon, 2009, The identity of Parandra laevis Latreille, 1804 and nomenclatural changes in the Parandrinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 25 (25), pp. 19-35 : 32

Revalidation of Protospondylis Linsley , |942

Vitali (2006) considered Protospondylis Linsley, 1942 to be synonymous with Parandra Latreille, 1804 . However this was a tentative placement and we believe that it is not possible to affirm that Protospondylis is a true Parandrinae based on the figure of the fossil and the characters discussed by Vitali. Vitali states (p.24) that ‘‘The conservation of this fossil makes it diffi cult to use the key to genera provided by Santos-Silva (2002) ’’ thus it is impossible to establish, without doubt, that Protospondylis is synonymous with Parandra sensu lato.

To solve this problem we are revalidating Protospondylis as a genus different from Parandra sensu lato, and place it incertae sedis in the Cerambycidae until its true taxonomic position can be resolved by the discovery of further specimens of Protospondylis florissantensis (Wickham, 1920) .