Estoloides (Spinestoloides) Breuning, 1954

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Wappes, James E. & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2018, Descriptions and synonymies in American Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 4375 (4), pp. 451-501 : 457

On Estoloides (Spinestoloides) Breuning, 1954

Breuning (1954) described E. ( Spinestoloides ) as follows (translated): “For this species [ Estoloides spinipennis ] well characterized by the body lacking erect setae and the antennomere III slightly longer than IV, I create a new subgenus: Spinestoloides .” Breuning (1974a) repeated this description and kept only E. (S.) spinipennis Breuning, 1954 as the only species of the subgenus.

It is not understandable why Breuning (1954) described Spinestoloides as a subgenus of Estoloides , since the presence or absence of erect setae on elytra is usually considered a good feature to help separate genera of American Desmiphorini , even by Breuning himself. If this concept was accepted, it would then be necessary to review many other genera in Desmiphorini to determine whether they are simply subgenera of other genera. Accordingly, Spinestoloides is elevated to genus level.