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Placoclytus Chemsak & Linsley 1974

  • 1. 10531 Goldfield Lane, Houston, TX 77064, USA.
  • 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & toncriss @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7128 - 1418
  • 3. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & eribnascimentofl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5047 - 8921

Description

Key to species of Placoclytus

1. Posterior third of the elytra with two slightly oblique pubescent bands. Mexico............. P. distortus (Chevrolat, 1860)

– Posterior third of the elytra lacking oblique or transverse pubescent bands........................................ 2

2(1). Anterior pubescent band of the elytra transverse, somewhat sinuous; outer angle of elytral apex angulate. Mexico (Michoacán, Durango, Mexico)...................................................... P. virgulatus Chemsak & Linsley, 1974

– Anterior pubescent band of the elytra not transverse, strongly sinuous; outer angle of elytral apex rounded. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.................................................... P. championi (Bates, 1885)

Notes

Published as part of Heffern, Daniel, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Nascimento, Francisco E. L., 2021, American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera): Four new species, new records and taxonomic notes, pp. 361-378 in Zootaxa 4933 (3) on page 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4554966

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References

  • Chemsak, J. A. & Linsley, E. G. (1974) Descriptions and records of Clytini from Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 50 (2), 129 - 138.
  • Bates, H. W. (1885) Suppl. to Longicornia. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera. Vol. 5. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 249 - 436.