Five new species of Longhorned Woodboring (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the Urgleptes of Hispaniola including a new synonymy for a highly variable species Ian S. Ravin1 & Steven W. Lingafelter2 1Natural History Research Experience, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA 2Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20560, USA

Newly Described Species Distribution Maps Abstract Previously Described Species

The genus Urgleptes Dillon (1956) is reviewed for Hispaniola. We present justification for U. haitiensis Gilmour as a new synonym of U. sandersoni Gilmour. Material examined yielded five new species: U. charynae Ravin and Lingafelter, n. sp., U. consimilis Ravin and Lingafelter, n. sp., U. curtipennis Ravin and Lingafelter, n. sp., U. marionae Ravin and Lingafelter, n. sp., and U. obliterata Ravin and Lingafelter, n. sp. For all species examined we provide photographs, illustrations, full descriptions, and distribution maps.

U. puertoricensis & U. sandersoni U. charynae U. consimilis U. curtipennis Introduction

• Urgleptes Dillon (1956) contains 79 described species and is recognized by distinct pronotal punctures only present on transverse sulcus and behind lateral pronotal spines (see arrow below). • Within the material examined, 5 new species were described after thorough morphological comparison. • U. sandersoni and U. haitiensis were described by Gilmour (1963) based on one specimen each. After studying hundreds of specimens, we have determined these to be a single, highly variable species.

U. obliterata U. marionae

Series showing the morphological variation in elytral maculation with (a) and (f) being most Top: Transverse punctures along pronotum similar to the U. sandersoni and U. haitiensis holotypes respectively. This supports our synonymy of U. haitiensis with U. sandersoni Distribution maps demonstrate the geographical locations these species have been collected. U. sandersoni is found to be Methods the most widespread species. The distribution for U. charynae suggests it • Cerambycids are typically collected by beating a. U. sandersoni, b. U. puertoricensis, occurs in high elevations and U. obliterata c. U. charynae, d. U. obliterata vegetation or running mercury vapor and UV occurs coastally. Some species are only lights at night. known from a few specimens making their • Specimens from the USNM and on loan from distributions poorly understood. other collections were sorted based on Morphological characters (following Lingafelter, 2007) morphological characters and consulted such as the scapes, width of prosternal processes, and literature. mesosternal processes above were used to identify each Literature Cited • Dillon, L. S. 1956. The Nearctic components of the Tribe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Part 1. • Once specimens were carefully sorted, high species. Pronotal and elytral maculation, leg coloration, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 49: 134-167. • Gilmour, E. F.. 1963. On the Neotropical Acanthocinini (Col., Cerambycidae, ): Some Caribbean genera Left: Live individual of U. sandersoni in situ distinctive fascia, and punctures were also used to make and species. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean islands. Some Caribbean Coleoptera quality images were taken in accessory to Cerambycidae. 17: 57-96+2 plates. Right: Blacklighting at night for cerambycids • Lingafelter, S. W. 2007. Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States. species descriptions. these determinations. Coleopterists Society Miscellaneous Publication No. 3. 206 pp.

Acknowledgments. We thank the National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, and U. S. Department of Agriculture for providing funding, equipment, and resources for this project. We thank Jim Wappes (American Coleoptera Museum San Antonio, TX), Bob Androw (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA), Paul Skelley (Florida State Collection of , Gainesville, FL), Robert Turnbow (Robert H. Turnbow, Jr. Private Collection, Ft. Rucker, AL), and Mike Ivie (West Indian Fauna Project, Bozeman, MT) for providing collections under their care for our study. We thank Kelvin Guerrero and Bautista Rojas Gomez, Ministro de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales and the Subsecretaria de Áreas Protegidas y Biodiversidad, Dominican Republic, for providing collecting and export permits for much of the material examined. We thank Alexander Konstantinov (USDA), Norman Woodley (USDA), Charyn Micheli (Smithsonian Institution), Taina Litwak (USDA), Gary Miller (USDA), Carol Youmans (Smithsonian Institution), and Marisol Arciniega-Melendez (Smithsonian Institution) for logistical support for collecting expeditions in Vinalhaven, Maine and Jamaica. We thank Taina Litwak (USDA) for the digital paintings of Urgleptes obliterata, Urgleptes curtipennis, and Urgleptes consimilis, Lohitha Kethu (Virgina Commonwealth University) for the digital painting of Urgleptes maryonae, and Victoria Kulhanek (Iowa State University) for the digital painting of Urgleptes charynae. Rick Stanley (Research Collaborator, Smithsonian Institution) took the live photo of Urgleptes sandersoni. We’d like to thank Elisabeth Roberts (USDA) for her assistance with plate preparation in Photoshop. Finally we thank Virginia Power (NHRE Intern Coordinator & Program Administrator), Gene Hunt (Smithsonian Institution), and Liz Cottrell (Smithsonian Institution) for their organization of the NHRE program and opportunity for this work.