Acyphoderes, Audinet-Serville, 1833

Clarke, Robin O. S., 2015, Revision of the genus Acyphoderes Audinet-Serville, 1833, with a brief synopsis of the genus Bromiades Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Insecta Mundi 2015 (401), pp. 1-92 : 19

Key to the Group 3 species of Acyphoderes based on males

(Female of Acyphoderes amboroensis not known.)

1. Legs either blackish with only peduncles of meso- and metafemora yellow (in some Sao Paulo and Goiás examples), or mainly rufous and yellow, with black tibiae (in some Sao Paulo and Goiás examples, Espirito Santo, and Bolivia) ; width of one inferior lobe of eyes/interocular distance 3.4; pronotum with patches of golden or silvery pubescence, and both midline and lateral calli partly impunctate; base of prosternal process about one third width of coxal cavity; elytra Type 3, apex reaching middle of urosternite III ; widths of mesocoxal cavity/base of mesosternal process 2.13; abdomen subtype 2A ( Fig. 82) ; abdominal process planar with abdomen; sides of soleate depression at base of urosternite V raised into pair of upright tubercles; hind leg Type 2, lengths of clave/peduncle 0.85. Male 15.3 mm. ( Fig. 19 ). Female 16.5 mm. ( Fig. 20 ) Southern South America ............................................................. A. carinicollis Bates, 1873

— Legs black to dark chestnut, with only basal half of metafemoral peduncle yellow; width of one inferior lobe of eyes/interocular distance 2.3; pronotum lacking patches ofcolorful pubescence, and entire surface closely and minutely punctured; base of prosternal process narrow, about one tenth width of coxal cavity; elytra Type 4, apex reaching middle of urosternite IV; widths of mesocoxal cavity/base of mesosternal process 3.0; abdomen subtype 1C (Fig. 84); abdominal process inclined 30° to abdomen; sides of soleate depression towards apex of urosternite V raised, but not tuberculate; hind leg Type 3, lengths of clave/peduncle 1.67. Male 14.2 mm. ( Fig. 21 ). Bolivia........................................................................ A. amboroensis Clarke, 2013

Figures

Figures 19–24. Species habitus in the genera Acyphoderes and Acyderophes. gen. nov. Figures 19–20. Acyphoderes carinicollis Bates, 1873. 19) male. 20) female. 21) Acyphoderes amboroensis, 2013, male holotype. Figures 22–24. Acyderophes fulgida (Chemsak and Linsley, 1979). 22) paratype. 23) female paratype, Costa Rica. 24) male Mexico (VC).