Estoloides noguerai, Santos-Silva & Wappes & Galileo, 2018

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Wappes, James E. & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2018, Descriptions and synonymies in American Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 4375 (4), pp. 451-501 : 463-464

Estoloides noguerai sp. nov. ( Figs 76–82 , 124 )

Description. Male. Integument mostly dark brown, almost black especially on head; apex of palpomeres reddish brown.

Head. Frons and vertex coarsely, abundantly punctate; with abundant yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring punctures (except area close to prothorax with sparser pale yellowish brown pubescence), with moderately long, suberect yellow setae interspersed, and a few long, erect yellow setae close to lower eye lobes. Area behind upper eye lobes with yellowish brown pubescence obscuring integument close to eye, paler on remaining surface; with a few long, erect, yellow setae close to eye. Area behind lower eye lobes, close to eye, tumid, with a few coarse punctures toward ventral side, finely, moderately abundantly punctate on remaining surface; tumid area with narrow, yellowish brown pubescent band close to eye, paler on remaining surface, and glabrous on finely punctate area; with long, erect yellow setae close to eye. Antennal tubercles abundantly micropunctate; with pubescence as on frons, with a few long, erect yellow setae interspersed. Median groove distinct from clypeus to prothoracic margin. Genae finely, transversely striate, with a few moderately fine punctures interspersed, except distal third moderately sparsely micropunctate; with pale yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument (yellower close to eye), with long, erect yellowish brown setae interspersed. Gulamentum smooth and glabrous, except area close to mentum somewhat micropunctate, with pale yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument. Labrum moderately finely punctate throughout; with yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument, with long, erect yellowish brown setae interspersed, and fringe of short golden setae at distal margin. Distance between upper eye lobes 0.65 times length of scape (3.10 times width of one lobe); in frontal view, distance between lower eye lobes 0.95 times length of scape. Antennae 2.15 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex at distal third of antennomere VII. Scape gradually widened at inner side; abundantly micropunctate; with pale yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument, more yellowish white ventrally; with a few long erect yellowish brown setae dorsally, and near apex ventrally. Antennomeres III– XI with pale yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument; base of antennomeres V–XI with yellowish white pubescent ring; antennomeres III–X with long, erect yellowish brown setae ventrally, gradually shorter and sparser toward X. Antennal formula (ratio) based on length of antennomere III: scape = 0.73; pedicel = 0.11; IV = 1.17; V = 0.81; VI = 0.75; VII = 0.70; VIII = 0.64; IX = 0.62; X = 0.55; XI = 0.64.

Thorax. Prothorax, maximum width 1.4 times wider than long (including lateral tubercles); lateral tubercles large, placed at middle, with apex acute. Pronotum with 3 slightly marked gibbosities, one elongate placed centrally on basal half, one subcircular on each side just after middle; coarsely, abundantly punctate; with dense pale yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring punctures, with moderately short, erect pale yellow setae interspersed. Sides of prothorax striate on base, coarsely, moderately abundantly punctate on wide central area, nearly smooth on wide, oblique area from procoxal cavity to distal margin; with pale yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument. Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate centrally close to base of prosternal process, subsmooth on remaining surface; with yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument. Prosternal process widely depressed centrally, densely micropunctate interspersed with coarse punctures on basal half (general appearance somewhat rugose); with bristly pale yellow pubescence not obscuring integument. Ventral side of meso- and metathorax with abundant pale yellow pubescence not obscuring integument, sparser on center of mesoventrite (especially toward base); metaventrite impunctate laterally. Scutellum with dense yellow pubescence. Elytra. Coarsely, moderately abundantly punctate throughout; with abundant pale yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring punctures, with moderately long, abundant, erect pale yellow setae interspersed; apices individually rounded. Legs. Femora with yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument, with a few, long, erect setae interspersed.

Abdomen. Ventrites moderately finely punctate laterally (punctures finer on ventrite I); with pale yellow pubescence partially obscuring integument (yellower on narrow distal area), not obscuring punctures. Apex of ventrite V truncate, slightly emarginate centrally.

Female. Primarily differs from male by the wider body, shorter antennae (1.6 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex near apex of antennomere IX), and central area of abdominal ventrite V depressed distally.

Variation. Dorsal pubescence of head slightly contrasting to that on remaining dorsal surface of body; area behind lower eye lobes closer to prothorax finely, sparsely punctate; head with median groove indistinct toward prothoracic margin; labrum nearly smooth on basal third; antennae in male reaching elytral apex from distal third of antennomere VII to at apex of antennomere VIII. See remarks.

Dimensions (mm), holotype male/ paratype males/ paratype females. Total length, 12.60/9.67–11.70/12.42– 13.77; prothoracic length, 2.65/2.16–2.70/2.65–2.76; basal prothoracic width, 2.83/2.16–2.88/2.85–3.06; distal prothoracic width, 2.52/1.93–2.60/2.54–2.79; maximum prothoracic width (between apices of lateral tubercles), 3.82/2.79–3.51/3.60–3.78; humeral width, 3.82/3.10–3.91/4.05–4.27; elytral length, 8.55/6.61–7.96/8.82–8.91.

Type material. Holotype male from MEXICO, Yucatán: Chichén Itzá Area, 13.X.1982, J. E. Wappes col. ( FSCA). Paratypes – MEXICO, 2 males, same data as holotype ( ACMT). Chiapas: 6 km W Escárcega Exp. Sta., 1 male, 17.X.1988, J. E. Wappes col. ( UNAM). Quintana Roo: 15–18 km N Tulum, 2 males, 1 female, 11– 12.X.1982, J. E. Wappes col. ( ACMT); Cancun, 1 male, 1 female, 19.XII.1988, Giesbert col. ( FSCA); 13 km W Puerto Morelos, 1 male, 27.XII.1988, Giesbert col. ( FSCA); 11 km W Puerto Morelos, 2 males, 2 females, 23.XII.1988, Giesbert col. (1 male, 1 female, MZSP; 1 male, 1 female, FSCA). NICARAGUA, Granada: Las Plazuelas, 1 male, 1 female, 23–26.VI.2011, E. van den Berghe col. ( EAPZ). Masaya: Masaya, 1 male, IV.1995, R. Cordero col. ( RFMC).

Etymology. Named for Felipe A. Noguera, IBUNAM in recognition of his many contributions to our knowledge of the Cerambycidae of Mexico.

Remarks. Estoloides noguerai sp. nov. belongs to the group of species included by Breuning (1940, 1974a) in Estoloides (Parestoloides) : E. basigranulata Breuning, 1943 , E. costaricensis Breuning, 1940 , E. esthlogenoides Breuning, 1943 , and E. parva Breuning, 1943 . The new species differs from the first three listed by the dense pubescence on dorsal surface obscuring integument, except for the punctures, while in these species ( Figs 1–2 ) the dorsal pubescence is notably less dense. It differs from E. parva , by antennomere III distinctly longer than scape (slightly longer in E. parva ).

The paratypes from Nicaragua do not have the abdominal ventrites with glabrous area surrounding the punctures. However, as we did not find other consistent characters, we believe that these are only variations, also found in other species of the genus, as in E. perforata .

Figures

FIGURES 72–79. 72–75, Estoloides nayeliae, holotype female: 72, dorsal habitus; 73, ventral habitus; 74, lateral habitus; 75, head, frontal view. 76–79, Estoloides noguerai, holotype male: 76, head, frontal view; 77, dorsal habitus; 78, ventral habitus; 79, lateral habitus.

FIGURES 80–87. 80–82, Estoloides noguerai: 80, paratype male from Nicaragua, dorsal habitus; 81, paratype female, dorsal habitus; 82, paratype female, ventral habitus. 83–86, Estoloides schusteri, holotype male: 83, head, frontal view; 84, dorsal habitus; 85, ventral habitus; 86, lateral habitus. 87, Estoloides leucosticta, holotype male, dorsal habitus.

FIGURES118–126. 118–123, Estoloidesmorrisi: 118, dorsalhabitus,holotype male; 119, ventral habitus, holotype male; 120, lateral habitus, holotype male; 121, head, frontal view, holotype male; 122, head, dorsal habitus, holotype male; 123, dorsal habitus, paratype female. 124, Estoloides noguerai, head, dorsal habitus, holotype male. 125–126, Estoloides prolongata, female:125, dorsal habitus; 126, lateral habitus.

FIGURES 1–12. 1, Estoloides (Parestoloides) basigranulata, holotype female, dorsal habitus. 2, E. (P.) esthlogenoides, holotype male, dorsal habitus. 3–6, E. (P.) costaricensis, specimen from ZMHB identified by Breuning: 3, dorsal habitus; 4, lateral habitus; 5, ventral habitus;6, labels.7–8, Estola costaricensis, specimendeposited atUSNM:7, dorsal habitus; 8, labels. 9, Estoloides perforata, syntype, dorsal habitus. 10–12, Estoloides strandiella, holotype female: 10, labels; 11, dorsal habitus; 12, ventral habitus.