Parobereina, Danilevsky, 2018

Danilevsky, Mikhail, 2018, A new Palaearctic subgenus of genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 4521 (1), pp. 129-132 : 131

Phytoecia ( Parobereina subgen. nov.)

Type species: Phytoecia vittipennis Reiche, 1877

Diagnosis. Body small, elongated; upper and lower eye lobes never totally divided, but connected by a narrow row of facets; mandibles never bicuspid; antennae usually black (sometimes more or less lightened), often thickened, not getting thin distally, often longer than body even in females, or a little shorter even in males; prothorax cylindrical, slightly elongated, or slightly transverse, with evenly rounded sides, often nearly parallel-sided, without lateral tubercles; pronotum can be densely pubescent or nearly glabrous usually with longitudinal central setae stripe, with more or less pronounced smooth shining callosities; elytra without humeral carinae, with longitudinal rows of punctures, which are always distinct anteriorly, usually yellow or yellow-brown with black elongated area along suture, sometimes totally yellow, very rare totally black, always without scales, never with dense recumbent pubescence obscuring cuticle, with rounded apices; denticles of tarsal claws ( Figs 2–3 ) narrow, sharpened, usually short, but sometimes nearly as long as claws; hind coxae without spines.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Fig 1. Phytoecia (Blepisanis) bohemani (Pascoe, 1858), female, South Africa. Figs 2–4. Outer anterior claws of right tarsi with denticles: 2—Phytoecia (Parobereina subgen. nov.) vittipennis Reiche, 1877, female, Greece, Elatia, 1.6.1979, Hladil leg.; 3—Phytoecia (Parobereina subgen. nov.) ochraceipennis Kraatz, 1882, female, Tadzhikistan, Gissar, 22.5.1939; 4—Phytoecia (Blepisanis) bohemani (Pascoe, 1858), South Africa.