Fallaxdesmis unicolor ( Buquet, 1857 ) Santos-Silva & Wappes, 2018

Santos-Silva, Antonio & Wappes, James E., 2018, A new genus, a new species, new combinations, and notes on synonymy and nomenclature in American Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Insecta Mundi 605, pp. 1-16 : 6

Fallaxdesmis unicolor ( Buquet, 1857) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 19 , 21–26 )

Atelodesmis unicolor Buquet 1857: 336 ; Thomson 1868: 108; Lacordaire 1872: 625; Gemminger 1873: 3108 (cat.); Thomson 1878: 18 (type); Bates 1880: 116; Aurivillius 1922: 305 (cat.); Blackwelder 1946: 599 (checklist); Breuning 1963: 513 (cat.); Breuning 1974: 182 (rev.); Chemsak et al. 1992: 118 (checklist); Monné 1994: 63 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 215 (checklist); Noguera and Chemsak 1996: 405 (checklist); Monné and Hovore 2006: 241 (checklist); Toledo et al. 2002: 530 (distr.); Monné 2005: 375 (cat.); 2017: 329 (cat.).

Atelodesmis unicolor was originally described from Mexico, without specific locality. Subsequently, Bates (1880), recorded it from Cordova = Córdoba (Veracruz).

Breuning (1974) separated A. hirticornis and A. vestita from A. unicolor and A. piperita in his key, based on the length of lower eye lobes compared with the genae. According to him, the first two species have the lower eye lobes as long as the genae, while in the last two they are distinctly longer than the genae. Although the redescription of A. unicolor agrees very well with specimens of the species, the lower eye lobes are not distinctly longer than the genae, rather they are about as long as genae to slightly longer. Still, according to Breuning (1974), Buquet described the species based on “specimens” (suggesting more than 1) from Mexico. However, Buquet (1857) only gave dimensions for a single specimen, thus suggesting only a holotype, and not several syntypes, exist.

Material examined. MEXICO, Chiapas: 17 km W Tuxtla Gutiérrez , 5 males, 6 females, 4–6.X.1986, E. Giesbert col. ( FSCA); (3300′) , 2 males, 5 females, 1–8.VII.1986, Wappes col. ( ACMT) ; 2 females, 27–30. VI.1986, Wappes col. (1 female ACMT, 1 female MZSP) ; 1 female, 1 male, 21–25.VI.1987, E. Giesbert col. ( FSCA) ; 1 female, 27.VI–08.VII.1986, E. Giesbert col. ( FSCA) ; 3 km W Cinco Cerros , 1 male, 26.VI.1987, Wappes col. ( MZSP) .

Geographical distribution. Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas).

Figures

Figures 17–20. Atelodesmis spp. 17) Atelodesmis hirticornis, holotype. 18) Atelodesmis vestita, holotype. 19) Atelodesmis unicolor, holotype. 20) Atelodesmis piperita, holotype.

Figures 21–26. Fallaxdesmis unicolor. 21) Male, dorsal view. 22) Male, ventral view. 23) Male, lateral view. 24) Male head, frontal view. 25) Female, dorsal view. 26) Female, ventral view.