Piriana bosqi ( Gilmour, 1954 )

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Mcclarin, Jim, 2018, Division of the genera Sparna Thomson, 1864 and Carterica Pascoe, 1858 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Colobotheini) with description of six new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 4407 (1), pp. 1-28 : 10

Piriana bosqi ( Gilmour, 1954) , revalidated, comb.nov.

( Figs18–19 )

Sparna bosqi Gilmour, 1954: 79 ; 1965: 631 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 274 (checklist); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 237 (checklist); Wappes et al., 2006: 38 (distr.); Monné & Monné, 2008: 503 (syn.).

Sparna bosqui ; Fuchs, 1956: 575; Monné, 1995: 24 (cat.); 2005: 356 (cat.).

According to Monné & Monné (2008) (translated): “The comparison between photograph of the holotype of Carterica soror Belon, 1896 deposited in the MNHN and several specimens, including a paratype of Sparna bosqi Gilmour, 1954 , enabled the synonymy.” Nevertheless, examination of the holotype photographs of these two species (respectively, Figs 18, 20 ) clearly shows that they are different species. Figure 18 , even with poor resolution, indicates that the drawing by Gilmour (1954) ( Fig. 19 ) is accurate regarding elytral shape, although less so regarding the prothorax. The paratype of Sparna bosqi deposited in MNRJ was not examined. The original description by Gilmour (1954) does not agree very well with the true holotype. This is especially true regarding body and elytral shapes, respectively: “Elongate and rather slender”; “The elytra very elongate.” Furthermore, the male specimen of Carterica soror in Monné & Monné (2008) ( Fig. 21 ) shows the proportions between head, prothorax and elytra to be much different than the holotype ( Fig. 20 ) and may well represent a different species.

Figures

FIGURES 18–27. 18–19, Sparna bosqi, holotype male:18, dorsal habitus (photograph by Laura Trinogga); 19, dorsal habitus, drawing by Gilmour (1954). 20, Carterica soror, holotype, dorsal habitus (from Bezark 2017). 21, Carterica soror, male (from Monné & Monné 2008). 22–23, Sparna migsominea, holotype male: 22, dorsal habitus (photograph by Laura Trinogga); 23, dorsal habitus, drawing by Gilmour (1950). 24–27, Pseudosparna flaviceps, male: 24, head, frontal view; 25, lateral habitus; 26, dorsal habitus; 27, ventral habitus.