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Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain 1859

  • 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

Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain, 1859

Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain, 1859: 529.

Emphytoecia (Dimidiatipenna) Özdikmen, 2025g: 3145. Syn. nov.

Remarks. Özdikmen (2025g) divided Emphytoecia into two subgenera and reported: “In first group [Emphytoecia (Emphytoecia) Fairmaire & Germain, 1859: 529], posterior margin of pronotum never with a transverse, narrowly white band; elytra always with a longitudinal, narrowly white band at the suture; light colored bands of hairs on pronotum and elytra always longitudinal, never transverse;” and “In second group, posterior margin of pronotum always with a transverse, narrowly white band; elytra never with a longitudinal, narrowly white band at the suture; light colored bands of hairs on pronotum and elytra both longitudinal and transverse, at least a narrowly white band in the posterior margin of pronotum and a medial or slightly postmedial white band of hairs on elytra always transverse.”

One more time, the features pointed out by Özdikmen (2025g) are only specific differences. Furthermore, according to him, the elytral suture in E. (Dimidiatipenna) does not have a longitudinal narrow whitish pubescent band. However, it is present in the type species of the subgenus, Saperda alboliturata Blanchard, 1851 (Elitros … con una muy diminuta línea blanquizea cerca de la sutura [Elytra ... with a very narrow whitish line near the suture]).

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 page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17324846

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References

  • Fairmaire, L. & Germain, P. (1859) Revision des coleopteres du Chili (suite). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Series 3, 7, 483-512.
  • Ozdikmen, H. (2025 g) A taxonomic remark on the genus Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). Munis Entomology & Zoology, 20 (2), 3141-3145.