Pilostenaspis lateralis ( LeConte, 1884 ) LeConte, 1884

Eya, Bryan K., 2015, Revision of the Genus Crioprosopus Audinet-Serville, and description of three new genera of Trachyderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Zootaxa 3914 (4), pp. 351-405 : 401-402

Pilostenaspis lateralis ( LeConte, 1884) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 154–157 )

Crioprosopus lateralis LeConte, 1884:22 (Type locality: USA, Texas, Bosque Co.); Leng, 1886:62; Aurivillius, 1912:458 (cat.); Linsley, 1962:102 (fauna); Chemsak et al., 1992:80 (cat.); Monné, 1994:38 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1993:141 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2006:140 (cat.)

Description. Male: Length, 11–14 mm. Form moderately small, oblong; integument black, with pronotum at sides, lateral margin of elytra, and transverse elytral band at basal ¼ orange or reddish-orange, surface coarsely punctate, clothed with a mixture of long and short erect pale hairs. Head with front short, deeply impressed transversely, each side with a deep pit, a narrow, raised, longitudinal smooth line at middle between eyes; antennae exceeding elytral apices by about 3 segments, apices of segments 3–11 with depressed black hair, segments 3–6 with subdepressed to depressed black hair on dorsal surface, segments 3–5 slightly enlarged at apices, 3rd segment longer than 1st, 4th subequal to 3rd, each segment from 5th–7th subequal to or longer than 3rd, 8th–10th successively shorter, 11th segment longest, twice the length of 1st. Prosternum with apex of intercoxal process acute. Elytra about 2.2 times longer than broad; disc coarsely, densely punctate, punctures only slightly smaller apically, erect pubescence a little shorter apically; apices rounded, sutural angle dentiform. Abdomen with 5th sternite broadly shallowly emarginate at apex.

Female: Length, 12 mm. Form similar to male, antennae shorter than body, 3rd segment longer than 1st, 4th subequal to 1st, 5th subequal to or longer than 3rd, segments 6th and 7th subequal to 3rd, segments 8–11th successively shorter, 11th subequal to 10th, appendiculate. Abdomen with 5th sternite broadly rounded at apex.

Distribution. Southwestern United States (Texas).

Materials examined. USA: Texas, Pecos Co., Glass Mtns, 28 mi S Fort Stockton, 28 Sept. 1997, J. Beierl, (1 male); R.A. Cunningham (1 male, 1 female); 13 March 1998, E. Giesbert (6 males, 16 females); HWY 385, 28 mi S Fort Stockton, adult collected in pupal cells in Quercus mohriana, 21 November 1998, D. Heffern (1 male, 1 female); 28 mi S. Fort Stockton, HWY 385 Rest Park, exit pupal chamber in Quercus mohriana B., 5 Dec 1997, (1 male, 1 female), 1-2 Jan 1998 (1 male, 1 female), 8 Nov 1997 (1 female), J.E. Wappes. Materials examined were from: ACMT, BKEC, and FSCA.

Figures

FIGURES 152 – 159. Dorsal and Lateral view of Pilostenaspis. 152, 153: Pilostenaspis copei (female); 154, 155: Pilostenaspis lateralis (male); 156, 157: Pilostenaspis lateralis (female); 158, 159: Pilostenaspis pilosella (female).