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Phoracantha recurva Newman 1840

  • 1. Laboratório de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Cidade Universitária, 79090 - 900, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil
  • 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • 3. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • 4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Jardim das Américas, 81530 - 000, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Description

Phoracantha recurva Newman, 1840

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Phoracantha recurva Newman, 1840: 4.

Remarks. This species was described based on a single specimen from Australia. Currently, it is known from Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zeeland, Greece, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Malta, South Africa, Malawi, Maroc, Zambia, Mozambique, Israel, United States of America (California), Mexico (Baja California, Mexico, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Puebla, and Tlaxcala), Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Chile, Argentina (Corrientes, Córdoba, La Rioja, Santa Fé, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, and Río Negro), and Uruguay (Monné 2024a; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2023).

Corrêa et al. (2020) reported P. recurva damaging specimens of Corymbia citriodora in Brazil (Minas Gerais, Viçosa) and reported: “In Brazil, this borer damaged Corymbia citriodora (Hook) Hill & Johnson (Myrtaceae) logs in Paranapanema, São Paulo State, Brazil, in 2001.” The first author observed P. recurva damaging specimens of Corymbia citriodora (Figs 16–17), plant identified by Thomaz R. F. Sinani (ZUFMS), in Mato Grosso do Sul (Campo Grande).

Material examined. BRAZIL, Mato Grosso do Sul (new state record): Campo Grande, Parati, Bairro Jardim das Nações, 20°30’23.0”S 54°37’20.0”W, 543 m, 1 specimen (ZUFMS-COL-00991), 29.IX.2022, P.J. Costa-Pinto leg. (ZUFMS); Campo Grande, Pioneiros, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, FAODO, 20°29’47.7”S 54°36’53.3”W, 552 m, 1 specimen (ZUFMS-COL-01379), 23.VIII.2023, A.L.S. Ramires leg. (ZUFMS).

Notes

Published as part of Olivier, Renan Da Silva, Santos-Silva, Antonio, Monné, Marcela Laura & Costa-Pinto, Paula Jéssica, 2024, Notes, new records, and transference in South American Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera), pp. 451-499 in Zootaxa 5496 (4) on pages 460-461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13617630

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZUFMS
Event date
2022-09-29
Verbatim event date
2022-09-29
Scientific name authorship
Newman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Phoracantha
Species
recurva
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phoracantha recurva Newman, 1840 sec. Olivier, Santos-Silva, Monné & Costa-Pinto, 2024

References

  • Newman, E. (1840) Entomological notes. The Entomologist, 1, 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 9068
  • Monne, M. A. (2024 a) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Available from: https: // cerambycids. com / catalog / (accessed 21 April 2024)
  • Tavakilian, G. L. & Chevillotte, H. (2023) Titan: base de donnees internationales sur les Cerambycidae ou Longicornes. Available from: http: // titan. gbif. fr / (accessed 10 April 2024)
  • Correa, C. A., Anjos, N., Carvalho, A. G., Soares, M. A., Santos Junior, V. C. & Zanuncio, J. C. (2020) Phoracantha recurva (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): first report in the Atlantic rainforest of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Florida Entomologist, 103 (1), 142 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1653 / 024.103.0426