New species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from South and Central America

Maria Helena M Galileo; Antonio Santos-Silva; Stéphane Le Tirant

doi:10.3897/zookeys.530.6155

New species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from South and Central America

Zookeys. 2015 Oct 28:(530):101-11. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.530.6155. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Maria Helena M Galileo¹, Antonio Santos-Silva², Stéphane Le Tirant³

Affiliations

¹ PPG Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil (Fellow of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico).
² Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo.
³ Insectarium de Montréal, 4581 rue Sherbrooke est Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Abstract

Three new species are described: Tropidion birai (Cerambycinae, Neoibidionini) from Bolivia; Chrysoprasis birai (Cerambycinae, Heteropsini) from Panama; and Recchia nearnsi (Lamiinae, Aerenicini) from Bolivia. The new species are included in amended versions of previously published keys to species of each genus.

Keywords: Longhorned beetle; Tropidina; taxonomy.

Publication types

Review