Sympagus bimaculatu

Hovore, Frank T. & Toledo, Víctor H., 2006, Review of the genus Sympagus Bates, 1881 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini), Zootaxa 1252, pp. 49-61 : 57

Sympagus bimaculatu s (Gilmour), new combination

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Diagnosis

Body dark red­brown and piceous, patterned dorsally with pale gray, dark gray, brown and black appressed pubescence; dorsal pattern diffuse, head and pronotum mostly pale gray, sometimes mottled with darker gray across pronotal disk; elytra pale gray, mottled with dark brown and black maculae, forming an irregular darker area medially and a broad, irregular post­median fascia, apical one­fourth and sides at middle with few or no maculae, appearing whitish, post­humeral portion of epipleura with a large, semicircular black macula. Pronotal disk even or feebly impressed medially, lateral tubercles small, rounded, a narrow line of punctures present across basal constriction. Scutellum short, broadly ligulate, black pubescent. Elytra 1.5 times longer than broad; apices emarginate, sutural angle narrowly rounded, outer angle acute. Femora dark brown and piceous, thinly pale­pubescent; tibiae narrowly red­brown at base, apical four­fifths piceous; tarsi piceous. Underside pale testaceous, thinly pale pubescent. Length: 5.5–8.0 mm.

Remarks

This species ranges throughout lowland Amazonia from eastern Bolivia to French Guiana; the characterization was drawn from the holotype (photo) and specimens matching the type from Bolivia and Ecuador.

Figures

FIGURE 1 – 7. 1. Sympagus bimaculatus (Gilmour), male, Ecuador. 2. Sympagus buckleyi (Bates), male, Bolivia. 3. Sympagus cedrelis Hovore and Toledo, male paratype, Mexico. 4. Sympagus monnei Hovore and Toledo, holotype female, Panama. 5. Sympagus favorabilis Tippmann, male, Ecuador. 6. Sympagus laetabilis (Bates), male, Costa Rica. 7. Sympagus laetabilis (Bates), female, Costa Rica.