Metironeus hesperus Chemsak, 1991

Altamirano, Janeth, Pérez-Flores, Oscar, Escalante-Jiménez, Ana Leticia & Jurado-Vargas, Cesar Marco, 2024, Diversity of nocturnal Cerambycidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) from seven localities in Michoacán, Mexico, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5471 (3), pp. 329-342 : 334

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5471.3.3

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12190765

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scientific name

Metironeus hesperus Chemsak, 1991
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Metironeus hesperus Chemsak, 1991 View in CoL

Fig. 6 View FIGURES 3–8

Type locality. Mexico, Sinaloa, 5 mi N Mazatlán. Distribution. Mexico (Guerrero, Michoacán [new record], Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sinaloa, Sonora).

Remarks. In previous studies, this species could be abundantly collected ( Noguera et al. 2009) or not ( Noguera et al. 2012), commonly it is attracted to light.

Material examined. MÉXICO: Michoacán, Tacícuaro , 19°40’13.88” N, 101°21’32.77’’ O, 19/Agosto/2017, trampa de luz, C. M. Jurado Vargas col. ( CEUM, 1) GoogleMaps .

Noguera, F. A., Ortega-Huerta, M. A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Gonzalez-Soriano, E. & Ramirez-Garcia, E. (2009) A faunal study of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from one region with tropical dry forest in Mexico: Sierra de San Javier, Sonora. The panpacific entomologist, 85 (2), 70 - 90. https: // doi. org / 10.3956 / 2009 - 04.1

Noguera, F. A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Rodriguez-Palafox, A., Gonzalez-Soriano, E., Ramirez-Garcia, E., Ayala, R. & Ortega-Huerta, M. A. (2012) Cerambicidos (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) del bosque tropical caducifolio en Santiago Dominguillo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad, 83 (3), 611 - 622. https: // doi. org / 10.7550 / rmb. 25088

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FIGURES 3–8. New recorded species, dorsal habitus. 3) Gnaphalodes trachyderoides Thomson, 1861; 4) Tylcus hartwegii (White, 1855); 5) Anelaphus piceus (Chemsak, 1962); 6) Metironeus hesperus Chemsak, 1991; 7) Pseudoperiboeum subarmatum Linsley, 1935; 8) Neocompsa puncticollis asperula (Bates, 1885).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Chrysomeloidea

Family

Cerambycidae

SubFamily

Cerambycinae

Tribe

Elaphidiini

Genus

Metironeus