Pteroplatus variabilis Sallé, 1850

Botero, Juan Pablo, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Bezark, Larry G., 2019, Revision of the genus Pteroplatus Buquet, 1840 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) and taxonomic notes in Pteroplatini, Zootaxa 4658 (1), pp. 69-100 : 83

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scientific name

Pteroplatus variabilis Sallé, 1850
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Pteroplatus variabilis Sallé, 1850 View in CoL

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Pteroplatus variabilis Sallé, 1850: 430 View in CoL ; White, 1853: 83; Strauch, 1861: 127; Rojas, 1866a: 231; 1866b: 241; Pascoe, 1866: 294 (distr.); Lacordaire, 1869: 165; Gemminger, 1872: 2966 (cat.); Haase, 1893: 16; Blackwelder, 1946: 588 (checklist); Linsley, 1961a: 632 (mimet.); Monné, 1994: 49 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 133 (checklist); Monné, 2005: 452 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 114 (checklist); Monné, 2018: 672 (cat.).

Dimensions. According to Sallé (1850), length 9–19 mm, width 2.5–5 mm.

Distribution. Pteroplatus variabilis is known from Venezuela ( Sallé 1850) and Colombia ( Pascoe 1866).

Types. Pteroplatus variabilis was described based on syntypes (gender and number of specimens examined not indicated), deposited at MNHN.

Remarks. We did not examine specimens of this species. However, as in all species of Pteroplatus , the color is variable, especially on the elytra.

Pteroplatus variabilis is one of the species without small gibbosities on the distal area of the elytra, which is only slightly widened from the midlength. The tuft of long setae of the antennomeres III–V is distinct only on distal third or quarter.

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Gemminger, M. (1872) Cerambycidae, pp. 2751 - 2988. In: Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. (Eds.), Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus, vol. 9. Gummi, Monachii, pp. 2669 - 2988.

Haase, E. (1893) Untersuchungen uber die mimicry auf Grundlagen einer naturlichen Systems der Papilioniden. Zweiter Theil: Untersuchungen uber die Mimicry. Bibliotheca Zoologica, 8, 1 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 935 8

Lacordaire, J. T. (1869) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coleopteres, ou expose methodique et critique de tous les genres proposes jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol. 9 (1). Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 409 pp.

Linsley, E. G. (1961 a) Lycidlike Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 54 (5), 628 - 635. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 54.5.62 8

Monne M. A. (2018) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Available from: http: // cerambyxcat. com / (Accessed 20 March 2018)

Monne, M. A. & Giesbert, E. F. (1994) Checklist of the Cerambycidae and Disteniidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere. Wolfsgarden Books, Burbank, 409 pp.

Monne, M. A. (2005) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Zootaxa, 946, 1 - 765. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 946.1. 1

Monne, M. A. & Hovore, F. T. (2006). A Checklist of the Cerambycidae, or longhorned wood-boring beetles, of the Western Hemisphere. Bio Quip Publications, Rancho Dominguez, California, 394 pp.

Pascoe, F. P. (1866) List of the Longicornia collected by the late Mr. P. Bouchard, at Santa Marta. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1866, 279 - 296. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1967. tb 01436. x

Rojas, M. A. (1866 a) Etudes entomologiques. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (4) 6, 229 - 235.

Rojas, M. A. (1866 b) Catalogue des longicornes de la Province de Caracas, Republique de Venezuela, avec quelques observations sur leurs habitudes. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (4) 6, 236 - 248.

Salle, A. (1850) Coleopteres nouveaux de l'Amerique. 2 e partie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 7 (2), 429 - 435.

Strauch, A. (1861) Catalogue Systematique de tous les Coleopteres decrits dans les Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France depuis 1832 jusqu'a 1859. H. W. Schmidt, Libraire-Editeur, Halle, i-iv + 160 pp.

White, A. (1853) Catalogue of the coleopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Longicornia 1. British Museum, London, 7, 174 pp.

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FIGURES 40–42. Pteroplatus variabilis, syntypes, dorsal habitus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Tribe

Pteroplatini

Genus

Pteroplatus