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Volxemia Lameere 1884

Description

Key for the species of Volxemia

1. Elytra unicolor; meso- and metafemora bispinose at apex, inner spine longer than outer spine (Brazil, São Paulo) (Fig. 1)............ ........................................................................................................................................................................... L. solangeae sp. nov.

- Elytra bicolor; meso- and metafemora with only short inner spine .................................................................................................. 2

2. Elytra with developed eburneous callosities, each elytron with four eburneous callosities, two on base and two in middle; surface of elytra almost uniformly dark brown except for yellowish transverse basal band (Brazil, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro) (Fig. 2) ................................................................................................................................................................... L. dianella Lameere, 1884

- Each elytron with two minute eburneous callosities at base, anterior half of elytra yellowish; distal half dark brownish (Brazil, Espírito Santo) (Fig. 3) .................................................................................................................................. L. seabrai Zajciw, 1968

Notes

Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2018, Synopsis of the genus Volxemia Lameere, 1884 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 491-494 in Zootaxa 4457 (3) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.12, http://zenodo.org/record/1457860

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lameere
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Volxemia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Volxemia Lameere, 1884 sec. Monné & Monné, 2018

References

  • Lameere, A. A. (1884) Longicornes recueillis par feu Camille Van Volxem au Bresil et a La Plata. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 28, 83 - 99.
  • Zajciw, D. (1968) Novos longicorneos neotropicos. XVI (Col., Cerambycidae). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 40 (4), 539 - 543.