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Polymitoleiopus ozophagus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2. 521 46 Street, Sacramento, California, 95819, U. S. A.
- 3. Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Ciencias - Instituto de Ciencias Naturales - Cra 30 45 - 02, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, 111321 - Colombia
Description
Polymitoleiopus ozophagus (Chemsak & Feller, 1988)
(Fig. 27)
Urgleptes ozophagus Chemsak & Feller, 1988: 188.
Remarks. This species was described based on three females from Belize. Currently, it is also known from Mexico (Tabasco) (Monné 2024b; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2025). The male of this species is illustrated for the first time. It differs from females especially by the stouter femora.
Material examined. MEXICO, Quintana Roo (new state record): Pt. [Puerto] Morelos, 1 male, 18. VI.1989, Jim Cope leg. (CSCA).
Notes
Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Bezark, Larry G. & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2025, The Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from the James Cope collection: New species, synonymy, and taxonomical and geographical notes, pp. 384-400 in Zootaxa 5723 (3) on page 397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/17893709
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CSCA , VI
- Scientific name authorship
- Chemsak & Feller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Genus
- Polymitoleiopus
- Species
- ozophagus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polymitoleiopus ozophagus (Chemsak, 1988) sec. Santos-Silva, Bezark & Botero, 2025
References
- Chemsak, J. A. & Feller, C. (1988) New species of Cerambycidae from Twin Cays, Belize (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 90 (2), 179-188.
- Monne, M. A. (2024 b) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Available from: http://cerambycids.com/default.asp?action=show_catalog/ (accessed 7 July 2025)
- Tavakilian, G. L. & Chevillotte, H. (2025) Titan: base de donnees internationales sur les Cerambycidae ou Longicornes. Available from: http://titan.gbif.fr/ (accessed 3 October 2025)