Aegomorphus borrei ( Dugés, 1885 )

Heffern, Daniel, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2022, Two new species and taxonomical and geographical notes on Aegomorphus Haldeman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 62, pp. 1-12 : 4

Aegomorphus borrei ( Dugés, 1885)

Acanthoderes borrei Dugès, 1885: 45 ; Bates, 1885: 380; Schaeffer, 1908: 345; Perkins & Swezey, 1924: 51 (hosts); Chemsak et al., 1992: 130 (checklist); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 405 (cat.); Chemsak & Hovore, 2002: 8.

Acanthoderes(Psapharochrus)borrei ; Aurivillius,1923:385 (cat.); Duffy, 1960: 215 (biol.).

Aegomorphus borrei ; Noguera et al., 2002: 625 (distr.).

Psapharochrus borrei ; Monné, 2001: 47 (cat. hosts); 2005: 201 (cat.); Noguera et al., 2007: 313 (distr.); MacRae et al., 2012: 183; Noguera et al., 2012: 622 (distr.); Vargas-Cardoso et al., 2018: 96 (hosts).

Aegomorphus borrei ; Santos-Silva et al., 2020: 35; Monné, 2021: 247 (cat.).

Dugès (1885) described Acanthoderes borrei based on syntypes (immatures and imagoes), and Bates (1885) reported the species from “ Mexico, Guanajuato (Dugès).” Guanajuato was the Mexican state where Eugenio Romain Delsescautz Dugès lived ( Lameere 1885: CXC). However, although it is evident that the specimens were collected in Mexico, Dugès (1885) did not report the location or even the country. Monné (2021) report- ed the type locality as Mexico, without further details, but Tavakilian & Chevillotte (2021) reported Mexico, Guanajuato, Tupátaro.

According to Zaragoza-Caballero (1999) (translated): “On the death of Eugenio Dugès (1895), Manuel Villada fully rescued Dugès’s collection and manuscripts for the National Museum of Natural History, located in Mexico City. The National Museum of Natural History with all its collections was part of the Office of Biological Studies, where the collection was not properly maintained and much of it was destroyed. The remains of the collections became part of the university heritage in July 1929, when university autonomy was decreed. The Institute of Biology, instituted on the same date as the university autonomy, rescued only 960 specimens of the old collection formed and classified by Dugès that included, according to this author, 745 new species…” ZaragozaCaballero (1999) listed Acanthoderes borrei , but only as mentioned by Blackwelder (1946), and not as present at the “Colección Nacional de Insectos (CNIN) Instituto de Biología, UNAM.” Therefore, probably the syntypes are part of the material destroyed.The type-locality of A. borrei can only be established by inference.