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Onocephala Sturm 1843

  • 1. Attaché Honoraire au Département de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité [ISYEB-UMR 7205], Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 bis, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris.
  • 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
  • 3. Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Ciencias - Instituto de Ciencias Naturales - Cra 30 45 - 02, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, 111321 - Colombia.
  • 4. Laboratório de Invertebrados - LABIN, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais - ICEN, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Description

Onocephala Sturm, 1843

Onocephala Sturm, 1843: 262.

Onocephala (Medioclarovitta) Özdikmen, 2025k: 3261. Syn. nov.

Remarks. Özdikmen (2025k) divided Onocephala into two subgenera and reported: “In first group [Onocephala (Onocephala) Sturm, 1843: 262], head above (vertex) and pronotum never with broadly longitudinal bands (vittae) of hairs medially; elytra always with a large, more or less rounded or irregularly margined, pale pubescent macula on each elytron placed a little towards the sides just before the middle; elytra never with a narrower sutural band of hairs, and long or short, more or less longitudinal bands of hairs at least laterally;” and “In second group, head above (vertex) and pronotum always with broadly longitudinal bands (vittae) of hairs medially; elytra never with a large, more or less rounded or irregularly margined, pale pubescent macula on each elytron placed a little towards the sides just before the middle; elytra always with a narrower sutural band of hairs, and long or short, more or less longitudinal bands of hairs at least laterally.”

Once again, Özdikmen (2025k) based his justification for the new subgenus solely on the pubescent pattern, a specific rather than a generic feature. Therefore, we are synonymizing Onocephala (Medioclarovitta) with Onocephala.

Notes

Published as part of Tavakilian, Gérard L., Santos-Silva, Antonio, Botero, Juan Pablo & Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto De Lima, 2025, Re-classification of some American Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): a critical review of bad taxonomic practices, pp. 233-246 in Zootaxa 5696 (2) on pages 241-242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17324846

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References

  • Sturm, J. (1843) Catalog der Kaefer-Sammlung von Jacob Sturm. Mit 6 ausgemalten Kupfertafeln. Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, Nurnberg, xii + 386 pp., 6 pls. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.37837
  • Ozdikmen, H. (2025 k) Taxonomic remarks on the genera Onocephala Sturm and Stethoperma Lameere (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). Munis Entomology & Zoology, 20 (2), 3257-3265.