Charisia bleuzeni ( Peñaherrera-Leiva and Tavakilian, 2003 ) Clarke & Flora & Fauna & Casilla & de & Sierra & Bolivia, 2016

Clarke, Robin O. S., Flora, Hotel, Fauna, Casilla, de, Santa Cruz, Sierra & Bolivia, 2016, Provisional revision of the genus Epimelitta Bates, 1870 and associated genera, with a brief synopsis of the genus Acorethra Bates, 1873 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Insecta Mundi 2016 (504), pp. 1-43 : 22

Charisia bleuzeni ( Peñaherrera-Leiva and Tavakilian, 2003) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 29, 30 )

Epimelitta bleuzeni Peñaherrera-Leiva and Tavakilian, 2003:208 ; Monné 2016:810 (cat.).

Comment. Unfortunately specimens of Charisia bleuzeni (originally described from a single female) were not available for study (but excellent photographs of both sexes provided enough detail for those characters mentioned in the text). The species could probably be placed in a genus of its own. It has a general resemblance to Charisia melanaria , but differs from all the species of Charisia by the well developed tufts of setae on the metatibia, and the shape of the male’s abdomen. It cannot be placed in Epimelitta s. str. because the forebody is distinctly shorter than abdomen; the prothorax is widest near middle; the integument is black; and the body pubescence is not orange in color. Nor can it be placed in Exepimelitta because the pronotum is subquadrate, not strongly transverse; the general body pubescence is reduced, the pronotum lacking the dense, long setae of the transverse depression, the urosternites lacking hairy tufts; and the apex of the metafemora lack the characteristic fascia of white hairs.

Figures

Figures 25-30. Genus Charisia revalidated. Fig. 25-28. Charisia melanaria Gounelle, 1911: 25) male, dorsal aspect; 26) male, ventral aspect; 27) female, dorsal aspect; 28) female, ventral aspect. Fig. 29-30. Charisia bleuzeni (Peñaherrera-Leiva and Tavakilian, 2003), dorsal aspect: 29) male;30) female holotype.