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Cupecuara Santos-Silva & Tavakilian 2009

  • 1. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & e-mail: jp _ bot @ yahoo. com; Orcid ID: http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5547 - 7987
  • 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & e-mail: toncriss @ uol. com. br; Orcid ID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7128 - 1418

Description

Key to species of Cupecuara

1 Elytra predominantly dark with humeral yellow macula or stripe reaching epipleura laterally. Figs 1–9. Brazil (Pará, Rondônia). C. pojuca (Martins & Galileo, 2001)

– Elytra predominantly yellow or orange with two or three isolated dark areas................................................ 2

2 Dorsal surface of elytra with dark area restricted to a single continuous stripe along the suture, reaching apex or at least the apical eight..................................... 3

– Dorsal surface of elytra with two isolated dark patches................................................................................... 4

3 Head, prothorax and ventral side of body pale brown; pronotum densely and uniformly punctate; lateral tubercles of prothorax distinctly acute at apex; dark stripes on dorsal surface of elytra and along epipleural margin reaching apex. Figs 10–17. Panama (Panamá)............... C. turnbowi (Hovore & Santos-Silva, 2007)

– Head, prothorax and ventral side of body violaceous with greenish reflections in some areas; pronotum sparsely punctate, punctures concentrated laterally, on anterior and posterior margins, and around the central gibbosity; lateral tubercles of prothorax rounded at apex; dark stripes on dorsal surface of elytra and close to epipleural margin not reaching apex. Figs 18–37. Ecuador (Napo)................................. C. erwini sp. nov.

4 Anterior black patch on dorsal surface of elytra elongate-triangular, with its widest area situated at base. Fig. 38. Peru (Pasco, Junín)......................................................................................... C. santossilvai Audureau, 2014

– Anterior black patch on dorsal surface of elytra rounded or ovoid, with its anterior area narrow and gradually widened (often the widening is rounded)............ 5

5 Sides of elytra lacking dark stripe close to the epipleural margin. Figs 39–42. Bolivia (La Paz)................................................. C. soledari (Martins & Galileo, 2001)

– Sides of elytra with dark stripe close to epipleural margin. Figs 43–62. Peru (Junín), Bolivia (Cochabamba)................................................. C. argodi (Belon, 1896)

Notes

Published as part of Botero, Juan Pablo & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2020, Review of the genus Cupecuara (Coleoptera: Disteniidae), pp. 639-650 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 60 (2) on page 640, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.045, http://zenodo.org/record/5177906

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References

  • MARTINS U. R. & GALILEO M. H. M. 2001: Novos taxons de Disteniidae (Coleoptera) neotropicais. Iheringia ¸ Zoologia 90: 15 - 20.
  • AUDUREAU A. 2014: Un nouveau Disteniini du Perou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniinae). Les Cahiers Magellanes, Nouvelle Serie 15: 48 - 50.
  • BELON P. M. 1896: Description d'un Cerambycide inedit du groupe des Disteniini (Col.). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 1896: 128.