Linsleyonides portoricensis ( Fisher, 1932 )

Woodley, Steven W. Lingafelter Norman E., 2024, New species, new combinations, synonymies, and nomenclatural discussion for Hispaniolan longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Disteniidae, Cerambycidae), Insecta Mundi 2024 (69), pp. 1-41 : 15-16

Linsleyonides portoricensis ( Fisher, 1932)

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Elaphidion portoricensis Fisher 1932: 33

Remarks. This species was not recorded from Hispaniola in Perez-Gelabert DE (2008) and Bezark (2024). Specimens examined from the Woodruff Collection (FSCA) collected by Robert Woodruff and Thomas Henry establish the Dominican Republic and Hispaniola as a new country and island record, respectively, for L. portoricensis . It was previously known only from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands ( Bezark 2024).

Material examined. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Elías Piña Province, Río Limpio, 2400′, 26–27 April 2000, blacklight trap, RE Woodruff and TJ Henry ( FSCA).

TROPIDINI Galileo and Martins, 2007

Remarks. Ubirajara Martins published extensively on the tribe Ibidionini for many years describing hundreds of species. In his compilation work on the Cerambycidae of South America , along with co-author Maria Helena Galileo, he proposed subtribes ( Compsina , Tropidina, and Ibidionina) to facilitate taxonomic work in what had become an enormous tribe of over 500 species ( Martins and Galileo 2007). Monné (2012) determined that the name Ibidionini was invalid since it was based on a preoccupied type genus and proposed Neoibidionini as the replacement name. Bouchard and Bousquet (2020) stated that “the replacement name could apply only to the rank of subtribe since there are two older available names which could be used as valid for the tribe, Compsina Martins and Galileo, 2007 and Tropidina Martins and Galileo, 2007 ”. They selected Tropidini Martins and Galileo, 2007 as the valid name for the tribe (not to be confused with the tribe Tropidiini ( Diptera : Syrphidae ) which was based on Tropidia Meigen, 1822 ). Thus, the current classification of this group is Tribe Tropidini with three subtribes ( Compsina , Neoibidionina , and Tropidina). With the description of two new species herein, there are five species in this tribe now represented in Hispaniola.

Compsibidion Thomson, 1864

Figures

Figures 7–8. Linsleyonides. 7) L. guerreroi Lingafelter, new species. 8) L. portoricensis (Fisher) (illustration by Elisabeth Roberts).