Pseudosparna Mermudes & Monné, 2009

Nearns, Eugenio H., Swift, Ian P. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2023, Three new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on additional taxa, Zootaxa 5228 (2), pp. 137-156 : 140

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.3

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Pseudosparna Mermudes & Monné, 2009
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Remarks. In males of P. flaviceps (Bates, 1863) and P. dimitrisi sp. nov., the wide central area of the prosternal process is laminiform ( Fig. 9), while in the females it is narrow but distinctly not laminiform ( Fig. 20). Additionally, the mesoventral process in males of P. flaviceps and P. dimitrisi is acute apically ( Fig. 12), while it is narrowly truncate in females of these species ( Fig. 20). However, since this character is not acute in some species (e.g. P. antonkozlovi ( Fig. 14), P. marilenae ( Fig. 45)) it cannot be considered as a generic feature in males. Nevertheless, it is probable that males and females of the other species of the genus have the prosternal process and the apex of the mesoventral process somewhat different.

Mermudes, J. R. M. & Monne, M. A. (2009) Pseudosparna, a new Neotropical genus of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), with description of three new species. Zootaxa, 2056 (1), 63 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2056.1.3

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae