Lepturgantes prolatus Monné & Monné, 2008

Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2008, Synopsis of the Neotropical genus Lepturgantes Gilmour (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 1876, pp. 60-68 : 65

Lepturgantes prolatus Monné & Monné sp. nov.

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Description. Male. Integument brownish red to dark brown. Body with predominance of whitish-gray pubescence. Middle of pronotum with a narrow, circular line, and the lateral tubercles of prothorax covered with dark-brown pubescence. Lateral margin of elytra, from humeri almost reaching the apices, with black pubescence and a whitish spot on apical third. Elytra with dark-brown pubescence covering the median margin, from humeri to apical fifth and parallel to the sutural margin, a line of longitudinal patches from base to distal fourth. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 5. Prothorax with lateral tubercles continuous with posterior angles; pronotum with sparse punctures in the middle and a row of coarse punctures on posterior margin. Prosternum and mesosternum with intercoxal processes narrow, laminiform, about 1/6 as wide as one coxa. Elytra about 3 times as long as prothorax; coarsely and densely punctate on basal third; apical third of lateral margins with only two short setae; elytral apices obliquely truncated, outer angles slightly projected in a short, acute spine. Fifth urosternite with apical margin subtruncate, and urotergite rounded at apex.

Female. Very similar to male, differing by the antennae exceeding elytral apices by half of segment 6; fifth urosternite and urotergite truncated at apex; ovipositor slightly projected beyond elytral apices.

Measurements (mm), male/female. Total length, 8.0–13.0/8.0–12.0; prothorax length, 1.5–2.0/1.2–2.0; prothorax width, 1.9–3.7/1.8–3.1; elytral length, 6.4–9.0/6.0–9.0; humeral width, 2.2–3.2/2.0–3.2.

Etymology. Latin, prolatus means elongate.

Type material. Holotype. male, BRAZIL, Bahia: Mun. Encruzilhada, estrada Rio-Bahia, km 965 (Motel da Divisa, 960 m), XII.1972 (C. A. C. Seabra & O. Roppa leg.) ( MNRJ). Paratypes. same data as holotype, 1 female, XI.1971 ( MNRJ), 7 males, 6 females, XI.1972 ( MNRJ), male, XII.1972 ( MNRJ), 4 males, 8 females, XI.1974 ( MNRJ), female, XI.1975 ( MNRJ); Bahia: Itapetinga, 1 male, XI.1969 (F. M. Oliveira leg.) ( MNRJ); Espírito Santo: Conceição da Barra (Pedro Canário), 1 male, 1 female, XI.1976 (E. dos Santos leg.) ( MNRJ); Linhares (Parque Sooretama), 2 males, 2 females, XII.1967 (F. M. Oliveira leg.) ( MNRJ); Minas Gerais: Pirapora, 1 male, XI.1975 (C. A. C. Seabra, O. Roppa & M. A. Monné leg.) ( MNRJ); Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro (Corcovado), 1 male, 21.XII.1968 (M. Alvarenga & C. A. C. Seabra leg.) ( MNRJ); Floresta da Tijuca, 1 male, IX.1975 (C. A. C. Seabra leg.) ( MNRJ); Represa Rio Grande, 1 male, III.1967 (F. M. Oliveira leg.) ( MNRJ); Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, 2 females, X.1941 (F. Plaumann leg.) ( MNRJ), 2 males, 2 females, XI.1941 ( MNRJ), male, II.1973 ( MNRJ), male, XII.1973 ( MNRJ); Mato Grosso: Pontes e Lacerda, 2 females, X.1988 (P. Magno, O. Roppa & J. Becker leg.) ( MNRJ); Mato Grosso do Sul: Corumbá (Serra do Urucum), 1 male, XI.1960 (K. Lenko leg.) ( MZSP). BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz (600 m), 1 female, 17.X.1960 (R. Zischka leg.) ( MNRJ); 4 km N Bermejo (1000 m), 5 males, 1 female, 4–8.X.2007 (J. Wappes & R. Morris leg.) ( ACMT); Potrerillos del Guenda, 40 km N Santa Cruz, 17° 40’S, 63° 27’W, 1 female, 30.IX–3.X.2007 (Wappes & Morris leg.) ( ACMT); 4–6 km SSE Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna), 1 male ( RFMC), 4 females ( ACMT), 17–19.X.2000 (Wappes & Morris leg.); 1 female, 22–30.XI.2003 (Robin Clarke leg.) ( FSCA); 1 male, 13–16.XI.2003 (Wappes, Morris & Nearns leg.) ( EHNC); 1 male, 14–19.X.2000 (M. C. Thomas leg.) ( FSCA).

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 8. 5, Lepturgantes prolatus Monné & Monné sp. nov.; 6, L. septemlineatus Gilmour; 7, L. seriatus Monné; 8, L. variegatus Gilmour.