Equescollum, Nascimento & Botero & Lezama, 2019

Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima, Botero, Juan Pablo & Lezama, Humberto, 2019, A new genus, a new species and taxonomic notes in Oxycoleini Martins & Galileo, 2003 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 59, pp. 1-6 : 2

Equescollum gen. nov.

Type species: Oxycoleus birai sp. nov., monotypy, present designation.

Etymology: From Latin, Eques (= horseman) and Collum (= neck), referring to the narrative of how the specimen was collected by Bates (1885):“A single specimen of this species flew on to Mr. Champion’s neck while he was travelling on horseback through the forest of Chorcha.” Neuter gender.

Description: Eyes finely faceted; distance between upper eye lobes at least twice largest width of one upper eye lobe; antennal tubercles slightly, gradually elevate from median grove; antennae 11-segmented, filiform, longer in male, scape with inner spiniform projection at apex.

Prothorax bell-shaped. Pronotum tuberculate. Prosternal process laminiform; procoxal cavities closed behind. Elytra dehiscent, with lateral carina; humeri slightly projected, epipleura gradually reduced posteriorly; elytral apex acuminate.

Metafemora and metatibiae with granulated surface, curved at base; femora pedunculate-clavate. Pro- and mesotarsomere I about as long as II+III; metatarsomere I slightly longer than II+III.