Anisopodus White, 1855

Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) without erect setae on elytra; synonymies, transferences, revalidation, and notes on genera with erect setae on elytra, Zootaxa 4863 (1), pp. 1-65 : 21

Anisopodus White, 1855

( Figs. 51–53 )

Anisopodus White, 1855: 349 (replace name).

Anisopus Audinet-Serville, 1835: 30 (homonym of Anisopus Meigen, 1803 ).

Type species — Anisopus arachnoides Audinet-Serville, 1835 (monotypy).

Leptoscelis Dejean, 1835: 145 (homonym of Leptoscelis Laporte, 1832 ).

Type-species — Anisopus arachnoides Audinet-Serville, 1835 (only valid species originally included).

Diagnosis. Lateral tubercle of the prothorax situated on posterior third; elytra with centrobasal crest, with or without carinae; apex of the metafemora surpassing elytral apex, especially in males; metafemoral club not strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I longer than II–V together. This is a very problematic genus, including species that evidently do not agree with the characters of the type species of the genus. According to Nascimento et al. (2020): “Accordingly, any description or redescription must provide a good character or characters separating Anisopodus from Hyperplatys . While a complete and detailed revision of these two genera is not made, we believe that the following character set can be used to separate them:— Anisopodus : metafemora distinctly surpassing elytral apex in male (rarely not so); metafemoral club not strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I longer than II–V together;— Hyperplatys : metafemora not or slightly surpassing elytral apex in male; metafemoral club strongly enlarged; metatarsomere I not longer than II–V together.” Number of species currently included: 44.

Figures

FIGURES 51–66. 51) Anisopodus cochabambaensis, male, dorsal habitus (from Nascimento & Santos-Silva, 2019). 52) Anisopodus flavomarginatus, holotype male, dorsal habitus (from Vlasak et al. 2020). 53) Anisopodus argus, male, dorsal habitus (from Vlasak et al. 2020). 54) Sternacutus alienus, lectotype, dorsal habitus (from Monné et al. 2019a). 55–56) Sternacutus zikani, holotype (from Monné et al. 2019a): 55) Dorsal habitus; 56) Lateral habitus. 57) Sternacutus lateralis, holotype, lateral habitus. 58–59) Tropanisopodus tachira, male (from Nascimento & Santos-Silva 2019): 58) Dorsal habitus; 59) lateral habitus. 60) Tropanisopodus antonkozlovi, holotype male, ventral habitus (from Nascimento & Santos-Silva 2019). 61) Periestola strandi, male, dorsal habitus (from Santos-Silva et al. 2019). 62) Nyssocarinus vittatus, holotype male, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 63) Hylettus ramea, syntype male, dorsal habitus (by Jesus Santiago Moure). 64) Hylettus eremita, female, dorsal habitus (from Vlasak et al. 2020). 65–66) Leptostylus obrienorum, holotype male (from Nascimento & Heffern, 2018): 65) Dorsal habitus; 66) Ventral habitus.