Cotycicuiara multicava, Martins & Galileo, 2010

Martins, Ubirajara R. & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2010, New species of the genus Cotycicuiara Galileo and Martins, 2008 (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Desmiphorini), Insecta Mundi 2010 (134), pp. 1-6 : 2

Cotycicuiara multicava , new species

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Description. Integument blackish-red. Frons covered by whitish pubescence which completely borders eyes. Vertex with sparse pubescence. Upper ocular lobes separated by half width of one lobe. Antennae reddish. Scape cylindrical, scarcely shorter than antennomere III. Flagellomeres not fimbriate ventrally.

Prothorax covered with sparse whitish-yellow pubescence. Pronotum with a transverse row of punctures on posterior constriction. Scutellum sparsely covered by brownish pubescence. Humeri slightly projecting. Elytra with basal quarter covered by brownish-yellow pubescence; large transverse area of whitish pubescence on anterior part of elytra with slightly oblique anterior margin and posterior margin projecting along suture; large and deep, contrasting, dark punctures, intercalate with whitish pubescence; a wide irregular transverse band of brownish-yellow pubescence behind middle; preapical area of white pubescence and elliptical spots of brownish-yellow pubescence. Elytral apices covered by brownishyellow pubescence.

Legs and ventral surface covered by whitish pubescence.

Measurements (mm), male/female respectively. Total length, 8.3-12.5/9.7-11.8; prothorax length, 1.6- 2.0/1.8-2.3; prothorax width, 2.2-2.8/2.6-3.4; elytral length, 6.2-7.6/6.9-8.5; humeral width, 3.1-3.9/3.6- 4.6.

Type material. Female holotype, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Lavras , 29.II.1988, R. C. Garcia col. ( MZSP). Paratypes, same data as holotype: female, 19.II.1987 ( MZSP) ; male, 20.X.1987 ( MCNZ) ; male, 9.XI.1987 ( MZSP) ; male, 14.I.1988 ( MZSP) ; male, 15.III.1988 ( MZSP) ; male, 26.I.1988 ( MZSP) ; male, 16.XI.1988 ( MZSP) .

Etymology. Latin, multicava = porous, referring to the densely punctate elytra.

Figures

Figure 1-5. Habitus images of Cotycicuiara species. 1) C. oicepe sp. nov., female holotype, total length 9.4 mm. 2) C. multicava female holotype, total length 12.1 mm. 3) C. pertusa female holotype, total length 8.9 mm. 4) C. nivaria male holotype, total length 7.7 mm. 5) C. chionea male holotype, total length 10.2 mm.