Wappesia Nascimento & Santos-Silva 2021, gen. nov.
- 1. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil & eribnascimentofl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5047 - 8921
- 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil & toncriss @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7128 - 1418
Description
Wappesia gen. nov.
Type species: Tethlimmena gahani Gounelle, 1911.
Description. Head with well-marked median groove, reaching level of upper eye lobes. Pronotum with six tubercles, (antero- and posterolateral subfused): anterolateral tubercles delimited by sulcus at anterior margin; posterolateral (the largest) posteriorly delimited by sulcus that extends to inner side; anterocentral tubercle elongate, placed near anterior margin; and posterocentral tubercle elliptical, placed between posterolateral tubercles. Sides of prothorax with two tubercles, one centrally, another near anterior margin. Elytra covering or almost covering abdomen, slightly widened toward apex; without humeral carina; surface coarsely punctate; with slightly sinuous apex. Metatibiae slightly arched.
Female: Unknown.
Etymology. The generic name is in honor of our late friend James E. Wappes (1944–2021). Feminine gender.
Remarks. Júlio (1997) provided a key to species of Oxycoleus, which already indicated this genus was composed of two genera, except for the shape of the antennomeres (translated): “1. Elytra with carina; antennomeres cylindrical;” “Elytra without carina; antennomeres compressed.” However, the wide and sinuous shape of the elytral apices, easily separates Wappesia from others related genera.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lycidae
- Genus
- Wappesia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nascimento & Santos-Silva
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Wappesia Nascimento & Santos-Silva, 2021
References
- Gounelle, E. (1911) Liste des cerambycides de la region de Jatahy, Etat de Goyaz, Bresil. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 80, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 2969
- Julio, C. E. A. (1997) Descricoes, sinonimia, novo status, novas combinacoes e chave para as especies brasileiras de Oxycoleus Lacordaire, 1869 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Molorchini). Boletim do Museu Nacional, Zoologia, 381, 1 - 11.