Blabia intricata Martins & Galileo, 1995

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Nascimento, Francisco E. De L. & Kozlov, Anton Olegovich, 2019, The megadiverse fauna of Neotropical Cerambycidae (Coleoptera): Notes, descriptions, new records, new species, and revalidations, Zootaxa 4603 (3), pp. 441-472 : 461

Blabia intricata Martins & Galileo, 1995

( Figures 65–69 )

Blabia intricata Martins & Galileo, 1995: 588 ; Martínez, 2000: 97 (distr.); Monné, 2005: 378 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 242; Wappes et al., 2017: 92 (distr.); Monné, 2018: 511 (cat.).

Blabia intricata was originally described and remains known only from Colombia (Magdalena). According to Martins & Galileo (1995) (translated): “ B. strandiella resembles B. intricata , sp. n., by the antennae relatively short, which surpass the elytral apex only by one antennomere, by the presence of longitudinal yellow pubescent band on center of pronotum, and by the scutellum entirely covered by yellow pubescence. According to Breuning (1974: 194, 197), the lower eye lobes are distinctly shorter than the gena. In B. intricata , sp. n., they are slightly longer than gena. Furthermore, the known geographical distribution of the species is very different.” In fact, B. intricata and B. strandiella ( Figs. 70–73 ) are extremely similar dorsally. However, the information by Breuning (1943, 1974) is accurate, and provides a way to separate those two similar species.

Nevertheless, Wappes et al. (2017) figured two paratypes (male and female) showing that the antennae in male are distinctly longer, which agrees with the original description (“Antennae reaching the elytral apex at apex of antennomere VIII (male) or X (female)”). Thus, the information regarding the similarity of the antennae between B. intricata and B. strandiella is true only for females.

Material examined (only new record). COLOMBIA, Cesar (new department record): Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (5 km S Pueblo Bello; Finca Paraíso ; 19º20’58’N / 73º33’58”W; 2700 m), 1 male, 13-14.VI .2018, V. Sinyaev col. ( MZSP) .

Figures

FIGURES 59–67. 59–62) Blabia antonkozlovi, holotype male: 59) Dorsal habitus; 60) Ventral habitus; 61) Lateral habitus; 62) Head, frontal view. 63–64) Blabia masoni, male: 63) Head, frontal view; 64) Head and pronotum. 65–67) Blabia intricata, male: 65) Dorsal habitus; 66) Ventral habitus; 67) Lateral habitus.

FIGURES 68–79. 68–69) Blabia intricata, male: 68) Head, frontal view; 69) Head, frontal view, paratype. 70–73) Blabia strandiella, holotype: 70) Head, frontal view; 71) Dorsal habitus; 72) Lateral habitus; 73) Head, oblique view. 74–78) Cycnidolon antonkozlovi, holotype male: 74) Dorsal habitus; 75) Ventral habitus; 76) Lateral habitus; 77) Head, frontal view; 78) Antennomeres III–IV. 79) C. binodosum, holotype, antennomeres III–IV, illustration from Martins (1969). Figures 70–73 by Eugenio H. Nearns (USNM).