Strongylaspis boliviana Monné & Santos-Silva, 2003

Perger, Robert & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2010, A new genus and species of Callipogonini, description of the male of Strongylaspis boliviana Monne & Santos-Silva, 2003, and a new distributional record for Chorenta reticulata (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 48 (48), pp. 29-38 : 35-37

Strongylaspis boliviana Monné & Santos-Silva, 2003

Figs 14–15

Strongylaspis bolivianus Monné & Santos-Silva, 2003: 36 ; Monné, 2006: 60 (cat.); Monné &

Hovore, 2006: 14 (cat.); Wappes et al., 2006: 4 (cat.); Monné & Bezark, 2008: 15 (cat.). Strongylaspis boliviana ; Santos-Silva & Esteban-Durán, 2009: 353 (in key).

Male (Fig. 14). Integument dark-brown. Elytra as in female, yellowish-brown, with circum-scutellar area slightly darker; narrow band blackish along the suture and epipleura. General pilosity yellowish.

Figures Ι4–Ι5. Strongylaspis boliviana , male habitus: Ι4 dorsal Ι5 lateral.

Head longitudinally deeply sulcated between upper ocular lobes; punctation coarse, very abundant, confluent between upper ocular lobes and occiput; sparser on antennal tubercles near clypeus, and confluent near upper ocular lobes. Frons and clypeus coarsely, confluently punctate. Antennal tubercles closer at base; apex rounded. Mandible short (ca. 1/3 of length of head); dorsal carina low, wide, not well marked; latero-outer face with projection near median region (boundary between dorsal punctate and smooth areas); pilosity moderately long and abundant on dorsal face. Hypostomal area coarsely, confluently punctate; pilosity moderately sparse. Gula coarsely punctate (punctures closer near hypostomal area, sparser towards prothorax). Antennae (Figs 14, 15) reaching posterior third of elytra. Scape slightly longer than antennomere III; coarsely, abundantly punctate on dorsal face (punctures confluent on basal 2/3). Antennomere III slightly shorter than IV-V together; coarsely, confluently punctate on basal half, sparser in remaining portion.

Prothorax transverse, convex with disc almost flat; anterior angles not projected forward; posterior angles with spine, directed upward and backward. Pronotal surface densely rugosely punctate; disc with “M”-like depression at anterio-central portion; posterio-central region with transversal depression at each side of longitudinal depression that begins at base and reaches almost to middle; pilosity long, moderately abundant. Prosternum strongly elevated at central area; pilosity on prosternum, proepisterna, and proepimera moderately long and abundant. Prosternal process somewhat wide, longitudinally, slightly sulcated on basal half; finely, abundantly punctate on basal half; coarsely, confluently punctate on apical half; pilosity long and abundant; apex rounded, project- ing slightly beyond apex of procoxae. Mesosternum (Fig. 15) with long and abundant hairs. Mesosternal process longitudinally, strongly, sulcate; apex strongly emarginate. Metasternum and metepisternae (Fig. 15) with pilosity long and very abundant. Central area of mestasternum, around metasternal suture, with triangular region separated from remaining surface by narrow band almost smooth (base of triangle near metacoxae). Scutellum strongly convex, slightly longitudinally sulcate; asperities small and abundant. Circum-scutellar area of elytra (Fig. 14) with blackish granules, abundant, well marked, and gradually smaller towards apex, punctures becoming piliferous; elytral apex rounded.

Sternites finely, abundantly punctate; pilosity of sternites I-IV abundant laterally, sparser medially; sternite V strongly emarginate at apex, and with pilosity sub-equally distributed throughout. Profemora and protibiae scabrous, with coarse, small, spines on ventral face; mesofemora and mesotibiae less scabrous, and with spines of ventral face smaller and sparser; metafemora not scabrous, abundantly punctate on ventral face, sub-smooth in remaining areas, without spines on ventral face; metatibiae distinctly less scabrous than pro- and meso-tibiae, and with spines of ventral face less distinct and sparser. Metatarsomere I as long as II-III together.

Dimension in mm (♁). Total length (including mandibles), 34.0; prothorax length, 5.0; prothorax width (apices of spines of posterior angles), 9.0; elytral length, 25.0; humeral width, 10.0.

Material examined. BOLIVIA: 1 ♁, Department of La Paz, Nor Yungas, street from Caranavi to Coroico, 1600–1800 m, XI.2009 ( MZSP).

Comments. Monné & Santos-Silva (2003) described Strongylaspis boliviana based on a single female from Nor Yungas ( Bolivia). The specimen mentioned above is the first collected after the original description. The male can be included in the key presented by Monné & Santos-Silva (2003) together with the female.