Pseudestoloides Breuning and Heyrovsky, 1961

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 : 457

On Pseudestoloides Breuning and Heyrovsky, 1961

According to Breuning and Heyrovsky (1961), Pseudestoloides is as follows (translated): “Elongate. Antennae slender, a little longer than the body, beneath fringed with short setae, scape slightly long and strongly thick, the antennomere III slightly longer than IV, much longer than scape, the IV much longer than the other antennomeres. Antennal tubercles distant from each other and hardly protruding. Eyes coarsely faceted and strongly emarginate. Genae very short. Frons transverse. Pronotum transverse, trilobed at base, and with long, slender lateral spine, acute and slightly curved. Scutellum pentagonal. Elytra long, slightly wider than pronotum, widely truncate at apex and with serially arranged punctures. Head not retractile. Prosternal process slightly wide, slightly lower than coxae and rounded. Mesoventral process with rounded tubercle. Metaventrite with normal length. Mesocoxal cavities open laterally. Legs with medium length, femora weakly claviform, tibiae with slightly dorsal sulcus, the tarsal claws divaricate.” As for mesocoxal cavities, as in all species of American Desmiphorini , they are closed. Thus, it is not easy to understand what Breuning and Heyrovsky were trying to say.