Nyssodrysternum bolivianum, Monné & Tavakilian, 2011

Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29), pp. 453-464 : 462

Nyssodrysternum bolivianum sp. nov.

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Etymology: The epithet is a reference to the country where the specimens were collected.

Male: Integument dark brown to black. Pubescence predominantly grayish, in the pronotum disposed in seven longitudinal lines, one in the middle and three each side of the middle. Elytra with interrupted intercalate longitudinal lines of grayish and dark brown pubescence, surrounding a median irregular dark brown patch, near the lateral margin.

Antennae very long, more than twice the length of the body, attaining the apices of the elytra in the distal extremity of antennomere V. Prothorax with the lateral tubercle subconical, situated in the beginning of the posterior third. Pronotum with a row of minute punctures near the anterior and posterior margins. Elytral apices obliquely emarginate, external angle projected in acute spine. Punctuation dense in the basal half, disperse in the apical half.

Fifth urotergite notched in the middle of the distal extremity, fifth urosternite shallowly emarginate in the apex. Metatarsome I as long as II+III.

Female: Antennae attaining the apices of the elytra in the apex of antennomere; ovipositor projecting 0. 5 mm beyond the elitral apices, fifth uroternite transversely truncate, fifth urosternite shallowly emarginate.

Measurements (mm), male/female: Total length, 5,7-7,0/6,8; prothorax length, 1,0-1,4/1,3; prothorax width, 1,5-2,0/2,0; elytral length, 3,8-4,8/4,8; humeral width, 1,8-2,3/2,2.

Type material: Holotype male, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: 4-6 km SSE Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna), 17-30.IV.2003, R. Clarke col. ( MNKM) . Paratypes, same locality and collector, male, 01-15.III.2003 ( MNRJ) , female, 01-16.IV.2003 ( MNRJ) , male, 01-04.V.2003 ( ACMT) . 3-7 km SSE Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna), female, 08.V.2004, A. Cline & J. Wappes col. ( ACMT) .

Comments: The distribution of the elytral longitudinal lines is similar to that of N. gilvolineatum , but the lines are grayish instead of yellowish.

Figures

FIGURES 13‑15: 13. Nyssodrysternum bolivianum sp. nov., paratype female, length 6,8 mm; 14. N. lanceolatum sp. nov., paratype female, length 7,0 mm; 15. N. flavoguttatum sp. nov., paratype male, length 6,0 mm.