Wappesoeme, Galileo, Maria Helena M., Martins, Ubirajara R. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2015

Galileo, Maria Helena M., Martins, Ubirajara R. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2015, New species of Cerambycinae from the Neotropical Region, and nomen novum for Anelaphus maculatus Galileo, Martins, and Santos-Silva, 2014 (Elaphidiini), Zootaxa 3986 (3), pp. 373-386 : 382-383

Wappesoeme gen. nov.

Type species: Wappesoeme camiri sp. nov.

Etymology. The genus is named after James E. Wappes (ACMT) + “ oeme ”, relating to the type genus of the tribe. Masculine gender.

Description. Frons transverse. Upper and lower lobes connected by row of single ommatidium; eyes finely faceted; upper eye lobes separated by distance slightly greater than largest width of one upper lobe. Genal apex rounded. Maxillary palpi short, but distinctly longer than labial palpi. Antennae in males distinctly longer than body, with 11 segments; scape somewhat enlarged towards apex, dorsally without depression, distinctly shorter than antennomere III, without cicatrix at apex; pedicel shorter than 0.2 times length of antennomere III; antennomere IV about as long as III; antennomeres with long setae throughout, mainly ventrally on basal antennomeres; antennomeres III-IV with blunt spine ventrally near apex (almost as small tubercle). Prothorax slightly wider than long; lateral sides distinctly rounded. Pronotum longitudinally, widely, shallowly sulcate at middle. Elytra moderately finely, abundantly punctate; with moderately long, abundant setae throughout; sides subparallel from base to middle, then slightly enlarged to near apex; apex individually rounded. Procoxal cavities widely open behind. Pro- and mesosternal processes laminiform. Femora fusiform, dorsally narrow, distinctly enlarged towards ventral side; apex of metafemora slightly surpassing apex of urosternite III. Meso- and metatibiae subcylindrical slightly enlarged from base to apex. Metatarsomere I distinctly longer than II and III together.

Remarks. Wappesoeme gen. nov. differs from Macroeme Aurivillius, 1893 as follows: distance between upper eye lobes slightly great than largest width of one lobe; pro- and mesosternal processes laminiform. In Macroeme the distance between upper eye lobes is larger than twice the largest width of one lobe (mainly in males), the prosternal process is narrow, but not laminiform, with sides parallel, slightly enlarged at apex, and the mesosternal process is distinctly wide. It differs from Paranoplium Casey, 1924 , mainly by the prosternal process which is laminiform (narrow but not laminiform in Paranoplium ). It differs from Oeme Newman, 1840 by the upper eye lobes which are wider and closer to each other (narrower and more separate in Oeme ), by the connection between eye lobes in a row with a single ommatidium (with more than one ommatidium in Oeme ), and by the elytra proportionally shorter (proportionally longer in Oeme ) and laterally slightly expanded at posterior half (not so in Oeme ). See also the key.

Wappesoeme can be included from the alternative of couplet “16”, from Martins (1996) (translated, modified):

16’(14). Prosternal process present............................................................................ 16 - Prosternal process absent............................................................................. 17 16(16’). Elytral apex distinctly acuminate................................................................. Austroeme - Elytral apex rounded................................................................. Wappesoeme gen. nov.