Sympagus monnei Hovore and Toledo

Hovore, Frank T. & Toledo, Víctor H., 2006, Review of the genus Sympagus Bates, 1881 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini), Zootaxa 1252, pp. 49-61 : 59-60

Sympagus monnei Hovore and Toledo , new species

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Type material

Holotype female: PANAMA: Chiriqui: 7 km SE Fortuna Dam, 1200m, 0 8 May 1993, Gillogly & Stockwell (deposited in Essig Museum of Entomology Collection, U.C. Berkeley). Paratype: PANAMA: 1 male, Bocas del Toro: 15 km S Punta Prieta, 29 May 1987, F.T. Hovore (FTH collection), beaten from fallen Ficus tree.

Diagnosis

This species most closely resembles S. favorabilis in the arrangement of the dorsal pattern, and S. bimaculatus in the primarily dark coloration, but differs from these and other known species by the broad dark area across the middle one­half of the elytra, marked only with a small yellow spot on the lateral margin.

Description

Male: form stout, moderately robust, depressed dorsally; integument red­brown to piceous; body pubescence short, fine, appressed, ashy­white, pale yellow, gray, tan, dark brown and black, some patches with purplish reflections. Head red­brown, front feebly convex, thinly ashy­white pubescent, denser on sides behind eye lobes, vertex thinly ashywhite pubescent, antennae surpassing elytral apices by about 7 segments, dark red­brown, ventral face of scape and apices of segments piceous, scape and second segment thinly ashy­white pubescent. Pronotum dark red­brown, disk thinly ashy­white pubescent with a vaguely defined, median piceous macula, black pubescence on macula with purple reflections, surface impunctate except for scattered punctures in basal impression and at sides above tubercles, sides obtusely tuberculate at basal 1/3; prosternum moderately densely pale pubescent, prosternal process plane between coxae, slightly more than onehalf width of a procoxa, apex expanded behind coxae, cavities closed; mesosternum pale pubescent with fine erect hairs intermixed, mesocoxal process arcuate, twice the width of a mesocoxa; metasternum pale pubescent with fine, dense, erect hairs intermixed, feebly inflated at sides, plane medially. Scutellum broadly rounded, truncate at apex, piceous pubescent with the tip white. Elytra slightly less than twice as long as humeral width, contrasting pattern with basal area broadly red­brown, with tan pubescence, middle onehalf broadly black with purple reflections, sides velvety black with a small yellow macula at middle above epipleura, apical one­fourth with a median gray patch behind black area, followed by an irregular yellow fascia, and white­gray apices flecked with black maculae, apices sinuate­truncate, outer angle obtusely dentate, sutural angle rounded. Legs stout, femora strongly clavate, dark red­brown, piceous beneath, thinly clothed with ashy­white pubescence; tibiae dark red­brown, piceous on apical one­half; tarsi piceous, basal segment white­pubescent dorsally. Abdomen red­brown, densely pale­pubescent, apical sternite emarginate, angles rounded, apical tergite feebly emarginate. Length: 9.5 mm.

Female. Similar to male in form and coloration; apical sternite broadly emarginate, apical tergite truncate­emarginate at apex. Length: 9.5 mm.

Etymology

This species is dedicated to our good friend and colleague, Miguel A. Monné, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for his many important contributions to our knowledge of the Cerambycidae , and especially the tribe Acanthocinini .

Figures

FIGURE 1 – 7. 1. Sympagus bimaculatus (Gilmour), male, Ecuador. 2. Sympagus buckleyi (Bates), male, Bolivia. 3. Sympagus cedrelis Hovore and Toledo, male paratype, Mexico. 4. Sympagus monnei Hovore and Toledo, holotype female, Panama. 5. Sympagus favorabilis Tippmann, male, Ecuador. 6. Sympagus laetabilis (Bates), male, Costa Rica. 7. Sympagus laetabilis (Bates), female, Costa Rica.