Forficuladeres, Clarke, 2015

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 : 36

Key to the species of Forficuladeres new genus based on males and females

1. Rostrum rather long, width/length 2.0-2.1; in male width of one inferior lobe of eyes/interocular distance 6.3; in females 1.30; in male antennomeres IV-X obscurely yellow and dusk; in both sexes antennae reach metacoxae and lengths antennomere III/scape 1.2; in male prothorax length/width 1.2; in both sexes widest before middle; in female widths of mesocoxal cavity/base of mesosternal process 2.63; metatibiae yellow for basal third; with brush on apical two-thirds. Male 17.5 mm. ( Fig. 1 ). Female 18.3 mm. ( Fig. 2, 3 ). Panama, Colombia................................. ........................................................................ F. forficulifera ( Gounelle, 1913) comb. nov.

— Rostrum rather short, width/length 2.6; in male width of one inferior lobe of eyes/interocular distance 3.2; in female 1.25; in male antennomeres IV-X contrastingly bright yellow and dusky; in male antennae reach middle of urosternite I, in female reach metacoxae; in both sexes lengths antennomere III/scape 1.3; in male prothorax length/width 1.1, in both sexes widest at middle; in female widths of mesocoxal cavity/base of mesosternal process 2.11; metatibiae yellow for basal half; with brush on apical half. Male 15.9 mm. ( Fig. 4, 5 ). Female 18.6 mm. ( Fig. 6 ). W and SE Mexico (Nayarit-Oaxaca, Veracruz) ........... F. sexualis ( Linsley, 1934) comb. nov.

Figures

Figures 1–6. Species habitus in the genus Forficuladeres gen. nov. Figures 1–3. Forficuladeres forficulifera (Gounelle, 1913). 1) male. 2) female, 3) female ventral aspect. Figures 4–6. Forficuladeres sexualis(Linsley, 1934). 4) male. 5) male ventral. 6) female.