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Plectromerus dezayasi Nearns & Branham 2008

  • 1. USDA / SEL, Washington, United States of America
  • 2. Museum of Southwestern Biology, Albuquerque, United States of America

Description

Plectromerus dezayasi Nearns & Branham, 2008

Figs 2 a–b

Plectromerus dezayasi Nearns & Branham, 2008 was described from a single male specimen (Fig. 2a) collected by Dr. Henry Stockwell in Nicaragua, Jinotega Department, Cerro Chimborazo, 1400 m elevation, 13°02´N, 85°56´W, beating dead branches, 20 November 1971. Th e holotype is deposited in the EMEC. Two additional specimens collected by Dr. Stockwell, both female, with exactly the same label data are in the STRI. Th e following description supplements the description of this species using the methods indicated in Nearns and Branham (2008).

Description. Female. Length 8.0– 9.5 mm; width 1.8–2.1 mm (measured across humeri). Similar to male except pronotal sides without coarse punctures and prosternum without one irregular patch of coarse, deep punctures in front of each procoxa. Legs similar to males except metafemoral teeth with posterior edge strongly, deeply serrate, with about 11 serration “peaks” of uneven height and distribution. Abdomen with terminal sternite broadly rounded, slightly longer than preceding sternite.

Notes

Published as part of Nearns, Eugenio & Miller, Kelly, 2009, A new species of Plectromerus Haldeman from Central America and description of the female of Plectromerus dezayasi Nearns & Branham, 2008 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Plectromerini), pp. 55-62 in ZooKeys 24 (24) on page 59, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.24.242, http://zenodo.org/record/576551

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Nearns & Branham
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Plectromerus
Species
dezayasi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Plectromerus dezayasi &, 2008 sec. Nearns & Miller, 2009

References

  • Nearns EH, Branham MA (2008) Revision and phylogeny of the tribes Curiini Le- Conte and Plectromerini Nearns & Branham, new tribe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 47: 1 - 117.