The Prioninae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Hispaniola, with Diagnoses, Descriptions of New Species, Distribution Records, and a Key for Identification Author(s): Steven W. Lingafelter Source: The Coleopterists Bulletin, 69(3):353-388. Published By: The Coleopterists Society DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-69.3.353 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1649/0010-065X-69.3.353 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/ terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 69(3): 353–388. 2015. THE PRIONINAE (COLEOPTERA:CERAMBYCIDAE) OF HISPANIOLA, WITH DIAGNOSES,DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES,DISTRIBUTION RECORDS, AND A KEY FOR IDENTIFICATION STEVEN W. LINGAFELTER Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Prioninae (Cerambycidae) of Hispaniola are reviewed. Twenty-eight species are known from the island, including six new species and a new genus described herein: Elateropsis dichroma Lingafelter, new species, Elateropsis woodleyi Lingafelter, new species, Solenoptera tomentosa Lingafelter, new species, Solenoptera helbi Lingafelter, new species, Solenoptera rugosa Lingafelter, new species,andDerancistrachroma melanoleuca Lingafelter, new genus and new species. Derancistrus furfurosus Galileo and Martins, 1993 is transferred to Solenoptera Audinet-Serville, 1832 as S. furfurosa, new combination; the holotype is determined to be a female, and the male is described for this species. Derancistrodes vittatus (Olivier, 1795) is transferred to Solenoptera as S. vittata, new combination, and Derancistrodes Galileo and Martins, 1993 is a new synonym of Solenoptera. New country records are recorded for Strongylaspis corticarius (Erichson, 1848), Monodesmus atratus Fisher, 1932, Elateropsis quinquenotatus Chevrolat, 1862, Elateropsis sericeiventris Chevrolat, 1862, and Elateropsis trimarginatus (Cazier and Lacey, 1952). The first known female of E. trimarginatus is described. Diagnoses and discussions are provided for each species. A key to all the Prioninae known from Hispaniola is included. Key Words: Dominican Republic, Haiti, longhorned woodboring beetle, taxonomy, endemic species Intensive faunal surveys of phytophagous beetles tered during this same period, but are frequently in the Dominican Republic over the last three decades encountered from the late morning to late after- have shown there to be a tremendous diversity of noon, in flight, on hot, sunny days. The cooler longhorned beetles on the island, including many winter months (December and January) have the previously unknown species. Prior to this study, the lowest activity for this subfamily, with only three spe- known diversity of Hispaniolan Prioninae as listed cies encountered. in Monné (2015) was second among all West Indian New taxonomic and geographical distribution islands, behind Cuba. He listed 23 species for Cuba data for all Hispaniolan prionines, along with detailed (including four unconfirmed) and 16 species for photographs of habitus and diagnostic characters, Hispaniola. Perez-Gelabert (2008) also listed 16 spe- are provided below. Complete descriptions are pro- cies for Hispaniola, but his list differed from that in vided for five new species and one new genus. To Monné (2015) by including one species, Elateropsis facilitate identification, diagnoses and a dichotomous lineatus (L., 1758), and excluding one species, key are provided. Orthomegas cinnamomeus (L., 1758). Peck (2005) listed 22 species for Cuba, based on previous work by Zayas (1957, 1975). For comparison, Micheli MATERIAL AND METHODS (2010) recorded only seven species of Prioninae for The following collections were examined in the Puerto Rico. course of this and other research on Cerambycidae In this paper, six new species and one new genus of Hispaniola (curators and/or contact persons are described, and five new country records are listed for most). The primary types of Smithsonian documented to bring the total species of Hispaniolan Cerambycidae (Lingafelter et al. 2014), published Prioninae to 28, propelling it to be the most diverse online (Lingafelter et al. 2015), American Museum island for Prioninae in the Western Hemisphere. The of Natural History (AMNH 2014), and Museum of subfamily is represented on the island by six tribes Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZC including Callipogonini, Macrotomini, Mallodonini, 2014) proved very useful. The work of Nearns Meroscelisini, Prionini, and Solenopterini (the most et al. (2006), who studied the Zayas Collection in diverse of these tribes). Most of the prionines are Cuba, was very useful for species determinations. endemic to Hispaniola. With the exception of the tribe Solenopterini, species are typically collected ACMT American Coleoptera Museum (James at lights during the hottest part of the year (May Wappes Collection), San Antonio, through August). The Solenopterini are also encoun- TX, USA 353 354 THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 69(3), 2015 AMNH American Museum of Natural History, records, and rarely collected species, depository New York, NY, USA (Lee Herman) acronyms are also included. BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, For larger prionines, images were captured with UK (S. Shute, M. Barclay) a Canon EOS 10D camera equipped with a 100 mm CMNH Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Macro lens and ring flash, and for smaller specimens, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (J. Rawlins, R. with a Zeiss AxioCam HRc camera attached to a Davidson, R. Androw) Zeiss Discovery.V20 stereomicroscope with a PlanApo EFGC Edmund F. Giesbert Collection, 0.63X objective and a Zeiss KL 2500 LCD light Gainesville (at FSCA), FL, USA (M. source. Photo stacking was achieved by a combina- Thomas) tion of Axiovision and Adobe Photoshop software. EMEC Essig Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (P. Oboyski) CHECKLIST OF THE PRIONINAE OF HISPANIOLA ENPC Eugenio Nearns Private Collection, (asterisks indicate species for which no West Lafayette, IN, USA Hispaniolan specimens have been verified) FDZC Fernando de Zayas Collection, Havana, Cuba (the Zayas family) Callipogonini FSCA Florida State Collection of Arthropods, 1. Callipogon (Callomegas) sericeum (Olivier, Gainesville, FL, USA (M. Thomas) 1795) FSPC Fred Skillman Private Collection, Cochise, 2. Orthomegas cinnamomeus (L., 1758)* AZ, USA Macrotomini IRSN Institut Royal de Sciences Naturelles de 3. Strongylaspis corticarius (Erichson, 1848) Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 4. Xixuthrus domingoensis Fisher, 1932 JCPC Julio and Charyn Micheli Private Col- Mallodonini lection, Ponce, Puerto Rico 5. Hovorodon bituberculatum (Palisot de Beauvois, JTPC Julien Touroult Private Collection, Paris, 1805) France 6. Stenodontes exsertus (Olivier, 1795) MCZC Museum of Comparative Zoology, Meroscelisini Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 7. Monodesmus atratus Fisher, 1932 USA (B. Farrell, P. Perkins) 8. Sarifer seabrai Fragoso and Monné, 1982 MHPC Matthias Helb Private Collection, Frankfurt, Prionini Germany 9. Prionus (Trichoprionus) aureopilosus Fragoso MNDR Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, and Monné, 1982 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Solenopterini (G. de los Santos) 10. Derancistrus anthracinus (Gahan, 1890)* MNHN Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 11. Derancistrus elegans (Palisot de Beauvois, Paris, France (G. Tavakilian) 1805) MNRJ Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12. Derancistrus hovorei Lingafelter and Woodley, (M. Monné) 2007 NWPC Norman Woodley Private Collection, 13. Elateropsis antennatus Galileo and Martins, North Potomac, MD, USA 1994 RHTC Robert H. Turnbow, Jr. Private Collec- 14. Elateropsis femoratus (Sallé, 1855) tion, Ft. Rucker, AL, USA 15. Elateropsis lineatus (L., 1758)* USNM National Museum of Natural History, 16. Elateropsis quinquenotatus Chevrolat, 1862 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 17. Elateropsis sericeiventris Chevrolat, 1862 DC, USA (S. Lingafelter) 18. Elateropsis trimarginatus (Cazier and Lacey, WIBF West Indian Beetle Fauna Project, 1952) Montana State University, Bozeman, 19. Elateropsis dichroma Lingafelter, new species MT, USA (M. Ivie) 20. Elateropsis woodleyi Lingafelter, new species 21. Solenoptera dominicensis (Gahan, 1890) Species treatments are grouped alphabetically 22. Solenoptera furfurosa (Galileo and Martins, by tribe in the order of the following checklist, 1993), new combination with the exception that new species are treated at 23. Solenoptera scutellata (Gahan, 1890) the end of each genus. Label data from new holo- 24. Solenoptera vittata (Olivier, 1795), new types are verbatim; data from other specimens are combination abbreviated by indicating the province (in