Tillomorpha Blanchard

Miroshnikov, A. I., 2020, Taxonomic notes on the tribes Tillomorphini Lacordaire, 1868 and Clytellini Miroshnikov, 2014, stat. n., with descriptions of new taxa and a third addition to review of the genus Clytellus Westwood, 1853 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Russian Entomological Journal 29 (4), pp. 388-399 : 389

Genus Tillomorpha Blanchard in Gay, 1851

Tillomorpha Blanchard in Gay, 1851: 482. White, 1855: 289; Fairmaire, Germain, 1859: 503; Strauch, 1861: 131; J. Thomson, 1861: 229; 1864: 195; Lacordaire, 1869: 90; Gemminger, 1872: 2941; Bates, 1885: 59; Philippi, 1887: 774; Aurivillius, 1912: 421; Blackwelder, 1946: 583; Cerda, 1986: 35; Monné, 1993: 77; Monné, Giesbert, 1995: 125; Monné, 2005: 554; Monné, Hovore, 2005: 134; Monné et al,., 2007: 141; Monné, Bezark, 2011: 171; Monné, 2012: 53; Bezark, Monné, 2013: 177; Bezark, 2016: 179; Monné, 2020: 832.

Type species: Tillomorpha lineoligera Blanchard in Gay, 1851, by monotypy.

COMPOSITION. The genus includes a single species (see Remarks).

DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical realm ( Chile).

REMARKS. As part of the comparative morphological analysis of representatives of the tribe Tillomorphini [ Miroshnikov, 2014: 142], it was noted that “ T. myrmicaria differs from T. lineoligera strongly enough by a number of features and possibly deserves a new generic-level taxon of its own, being considered here within the genus Tillomorpha but provisionally”.

Currently, after additional research, I have come to the conclusion that it is justified to establish a separate new genus for Tillomorpha myrmicaria Fairmaire et Germain, 1859 (see below).