Acyphoderes hirtipes ( Klug, 1825 )

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 : 22

Acyphoderes hirtipes ( Klug, 1825)

( Fig. 13-15 )

Stenopterus hirtipes Klug, 1825: 473 , pl. 44, fig. 9.

Acyphoderes hirtipes, Monné 2005: 456 (cat.).

Species Concept. Based on photographs of four syntypes, the first in the series male (Accession 19917), the others females in the Humboldt Musuem; and a male specimen in the MZSP collection identified by Melzer.

Measurements (mm). 4 males / 6 females, total length, 13.4-22.1/16.6-24.8; length of prothorax, 2.50- 4.10/3.10-4,20; width of prothorax, 2.30-3.20/2.85-3.90; length of elytra, 6.70-10.40/8.30-11.80; width at humeri, 2.50-3.80/3.20-4.50.

Material analizad. BRAZIL, Espirito Santo, Santa Teresa 1 male, XII.1964, col. C. T. Elias ( MZUSP) ; 1 female, 2.XI.1964, P. Sooretama, Werner, Oliviera & Seabra leg. ( EMEC 202,805 ) ; Santa Catarina, Corupa (Hansa Humboldt), 1 female, XI.1945, A. Maller col. ( USNM) .

Material examined. BRAZIL, Bahia, 1 female, 1933, Wickham col. ( USNM) ; Espirito Santo, Rio Guandú , 1 female, 14.XI.1920, F. Hoffmann col. ( MZUSP) ; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 1 female, Acc. No. 2966 ( CMNH) ; Santa Catarina, Joinville , 1 male, I.1922, C. Schmitz col. ( MZUSP) ; Santa Teresa , 1 male XII.1964 and 1 female X.1964, C. T. Elias col. ( MZUSP) ; P. Sooretama , 1 male, 2.XI.1964, Werner, Oliviera & Seabra leg. ( EMEC 202,804 ) .

Comment. This species seems to be a more variable in color than any other in the genus. Some specimens from the northern part of its range (Bahia, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo) are much darker in color (pronotum, elytra, and abdomen black), others are similar to those from the southern part of its range (Santa Catarina) which are paler (pronotum browner, elytra and abdomen pale chestnut). Color of the metafemora also varies from pale in color (testaceous peduncle, pale chestnut clave) to dark in color (yellower peduncle, rufous to black claves), in some the yellow of the metafemoral peduncle and the rufous of the clave are separated by a black ring, as recorded by Fisher (1930) when he described A. rufofemorata from Bahia (see Fig 15 ); and metatibial color ranges from almost entirely yellow to almost entirely black. In female specimens ranging from Espirito Santo to Santa Catarina there is considerable variation in the following characters. Color of pubescence (golden to rufous on body parts; and metatibial brushes from entirely black to entirely rufous); length of elytra (apex reaching from middle of urosternite III to middle of IV); width of base of prosternal process (distinctly wider in one specimen from Santa Catarina than those from Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo; and in other characters not analyzed.

Figures

Figures 13–18. Species habitus in the genus Acyphoderes. Figures 13–15. Acyphoderes hirtipes (Klug, 1825). 13) male. 14) female and 15) female Acyphoderes rufofemorata Fisher, 1930 (junior synonym). 16) Acyphoderes crinita (Klug, 1825), female. 17) Acyphoderes rubrohirsutotibialis Tippmann, 1953, female. 18) Acyphoderes auricapilla Fisher, 1947, female paratype.