INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 11, No.2, June, 1997 129 Nomenclatural changes, reinstatements, new combinations, and new synonymies among American Cerambycids (Coleoptera) Gerard Luc Tavakilian Entomologie Forestiere ORSTOM B.P. 165 97323 CAYENNE cedex, FRENCH GUIANA Abstract:New synonyms: ProtormascabrosoWaterhouse, 1880 and ProtormarecuroatumWilliams, 1829 = Strongylaspis costifer Thomson, 1877; Callopisma ruficollis Bates, 1870 = Eriphus croceicollis White, 1855; Odontocero cillctivelltris Bates, 1870 = Odontocera simplex White, 1855; Tomopteru.s aurantiacosignutu.s Zajciw, 1969 = Tomopterus similis Fisher, 1930; Cerambyx spectabilis Voet, 1778 = Cerambyx oelutinu.s Fabricius, 1775; Cliioti ochraceus Bates, 1885 = Lamia spinifera Fabricius, 1792; Lissouotu.s sliepliertli Pascoe, 1859 = Callidium equestre Fabricius, 1787; Cerambyx puloerulentus Olivier, 1790 = Ceranibyx [arinosu.s Linne, 1758; Lamia crypta Say, 1832 = Saperda annulaui Fabricius, 1801; Ptericoptus [orsteri Tippmann, 1960 = Bisaltes buquetii Thomson, 1868; Ataxia [lauiceps Breuning, 1942 = Stellocoms obscurus Fabricius, 1801; Cryptocranium gou.nellei Breuning, 1980 = Cryptocraniunc cazieri Lane, 1958; Epectasis grossepunctata Breuning, 1942 = Saperda juncea Newman, 1840; ParaclytemllestragigallteaBreuning, 1974=Jamesia lineoto Fisher, 1926; Hippopsis tremata Galileo and Martins, 1988 = Hippopsis meinertiAurivillius, 1900; LamiapUllctataFabricius, 1792 = Cerambyx(Lamia) Daoiesii Swederus, 1787; Leiopus (Oedopeza) pogonocheroides Audinet-Serville, 1835 = Lamia ocellator Fabricius, 1801; Colobothea oelutino Bates, 1865 = Lamia maculuris Olivier, 1792; Xylergates doroiheae Gilmour, 1962 = XylergateseloineaeGilmour, 1962; Colobothea uelutina Bates, 1865 = Lamia niocularis Olivier, 1792; Pretilia teleplioroides Bates, 1866 = Saperda tuberculaia Fabricius, 1801; Gu.yanestolamocropluluilmaBreuning, 1961 = Estoloides(Estoloides) angu.stifrons Breuning, 1943; Drycothaea marmorata Martins and Galileo, 1990 = Gu.yanestolo brasiliensis Breuning, 1974. The following species are reinstated: Strongylaspis costi(erThomson, 1877; Oxymems lineatus Dupont, 1836; Hebestola operaria Erichson, 1848; Hesyclia lateralis Thomson, 1868. The genus Hephialtes Thomson, 1864 is reinstated. New combinations: Hepliialtes ruber (Thunberg, 1822); Protorma costifera (Thomson, 1877); Knulliana cincta spinifera (Fabricius, 1801) comb. nov.; Ataxia operaria (Erichson, 1848) comb. nov.; Paraclytemnestro lineata (Fisher, 1926) comb. nov.; Oedopeza ocellator (Fabricius, 1801) comb. nov.; Toronaeus illcisus (Bates, 1864) comb. nov.; Pretilia tuberculata (Fabricius, 1801) comb. nov. Drycotliaea turrialbae (Breuning, 1943) comb. nov. Drycotliaea truncatipennie new name for Estola stictico Breuning, 1942 (nee Bates, 1881) Some host-plants are given. Introduction ence number sampled by a botanist; several parts During my various visits through several insti­ are distributed throughout main botanical institu­ tutions sheltering historical collections, I noticed tions of the world. some unknown synonymies which are interesting to publish. The acronyms used are: 1. Reinstated species: MNHN for the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, BMNH for the British Natural History Museum in Subfamily Prioninae London, AMNH for the Am or icau Museum of Natural History in Tribe Macrotomini New York, USNM for the United States National Museum in Wash­ Protorm.a cost.ifera (Thomson, 1877), reinstated and ington D. C. (Smithsonian Institution), new combination. ICCM for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­ Strongylaspis cosiifer Thomson, 1877: 275 vania, Protorma scabrosa Waterhouse, 1880: 289, new syno­ MNHU for the Museum fur Naturkunde del' Humboldt nymy Universitat in Berlin, Stenodontes (Protornui) scabrosus; Lameere, 1903: 215 ZMK for the Zoologisk Museum in Copenhagen, Protornia recuruatuni Williams, 1929: 143, pI. V, fig. 1, MNRJ for the Museu Nacional da Quinta da Boa Vista new synonymy in Rio de Janeiro, Protorma recuruaia Blackwelder, 1946: 552 [Catalog] ZSMA for the Zoologische Staatssammlung des Bay­ erischen Staates in Munich, Lameere, without having seen Thomson's ma­ NRS for the Naturhistoriska Riksm useet in Stockholm. terial, simply synonymized Strongylaspis costifer Concerning host plant records, the scientific with Strongylaspis corticarius (Erichson, 1848). name is followed by the herbarium collection refer- All the following authors (Villiers, 1980: 143 and 130 Volume 11, No.2, June, 1997, INSECTA MUNDI others) accepted Lameere's judgement. Fortunate­ In 1801: 326, he described Soperda annulata ly, Thomson's type of Strongylaspis costifer is vis­ and gave the short following description in latin: ible in the MNHN, and in fact, belongs to the genus thorace rotundato, subspinoso, antennarum arti­ Protorma. Later on, I saw Williams' type in ICCM culis basi albis, which agrees with the type in of Pro torma recuruatum. an d came to the conclusion Fabricius' collection in the ZMK (conspecific with that Williams species is just a synonym of Thom­ Say's Lamia crypta); both the locality (America son's species. Williams wrote "Itwas carefully com­ meridionali ) and the synonymy (Sap erda lineata pared by me with the type of Protorma scab rosa 1792: 314) were wrongly associated with the above Waterhouse, from which itis quite distinct." In fact, description. The confusion was obviously causedby the description of Protorma recuruaiuni was based an error in the printing of page 326 in Fabricius' on a single male specimen, and the type of Protonna Systema Eleutheratorum. It is clear that between scab rosa in the BMNH is a female. The three the Saperdo nigricornis (n? 47) and the Saperda described taxa belong to the same species, and the tristis (n" 51) the synonymies were wronglyskipped. valid name is Protorma costifera (Thomson, 1877). Bates in the supplement of Biologia Centrali Amer­ icana (1885: 347) wrote: Ataxia Crypta ... Said by Subfamily Cerambycinae Erichson to be the Soperda lineata of Fabricius Tribe Trachyderini (Ent. Syst. ii p. 314), and so registered in the Munich catalogue, but it does not agree with the Oxymerue linea.tue Dupont, 1838 reinstated description, which refers also, as Fabricius states, Oxymerus lineatus Dupont, 1838: 41, pl. 211, fig. 1 to a South-American (Brazilian ?) insect in Lunds [Brazil] collection. Erichson might have seen the type and Oxymeru.s ap proximatus Dupont, 1838: 44, p l. 212, Bates read the wrong description (Fabricius, 1792: fig. 2 [Cayenne] 314). The name Saperda annulate being used sev­ Oxymerus elon.gatu.s Dupont, 1838, 1838: 45, p l, eral times by Fabricius, we decide to conserve Say's 213, fig. 1 [Cayenne] species name in order to avoid more confusion. The Oxy mcrus dietirigucndus Dupont, 1838: 48, pl. 214, complete synonymy of Ataxia crypta is the follow­ fig. 2 [Demerary] mg: Oxymerus aculeatus subsp.lineatus H udepchl, 1979: 20, pl. T, 1(rn) Oxymerus aculeatus var. lineatu.s Remillet, 1988: Ataxia crypt a (Say, 1832) 130 Saperda annulata Fabricius, 1801 (nee Fabricius, 1792): 326, new synonymy Lamia erypta Say, 1832: 5 From November 1982 to January 1983 the Amniseus ? cryptus Haldeman, 1847: 47 species was particularly abundant around Kourou Stenosoma crypta LeConte, 1873: 302 where I saw more than a thousand. I definitely do Ataxia crypta LeConte, 1873: 344 not agree with Hudepohl synonymies and status Ataxia sordida Haldeman, 1847: 56 changing (Hudepohl, 1979: 20). The correct synon­ Stenosoma sordida LeConte, 1852: 158 ymy, after checking the types found in the MNHN, is listed above. ConsequentlyHebestolaoperariaErichson, 1848 synonymized with Saperda annulate Fabricius, Subfamily Lamiinae Parysatis nigritarsisThomson, 1868b, andParysa­ Tribe Pteropliini tis flavescens Bates, 1880 becomes a valid taxon and we can write the following synonymy: Fabricius described (1775: 180) a Stenocorus Ataxia operaria (Erichson, 1848), reinstated annulatus from "America meridionali" belonging Hebestola operaria Erichson, 1848: 574 to the Banks collection (today in the BMNH). Fab­ Parysatis nigritarsis Thomson, 1868b: 120 ricius later on (1801: 310) mentioned the synonymy Esthlogena operaria Lacordaire, 1872: 600 with Cercunbyx cuuiulaius Olivier, 1792 and Cer­ Ataxia lineata Gemminger and Harold, 1873: 3100 ambyxhirtlpes Degeer, 1775 (belonging to the actu­ [Catalog] al genus Colobothea Lepeletier and Audinet-Ser­ Parysatis flavescens Bates, 1880: 112 ville, 1825). In 1792: 314 he described a Saperda Tribe Onciderini lineata from America meridionali. The two syn­ types in the ZMK belong to Degeer's species, Cer­ La.nipeduea l a.tera.lie (Thomson, 1868) reinstated tunbyx hirtipes. INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 11, No.2, June, 1997 131 Hesycha lateralis Thomson, 1868a: 63 [Cayenne] Hephialtes Thomson, 1864 reinstated Lampedusa obliquator Dillon and Dillon (nee Fabr­ Type species: Hephialtes tricostatusThomson, 1864 icius, 1801), 1945: 114, p l. V, fig, 10 (= Tracliydercs ruber Thunberg, 1822) [Brazil] by original designation. Lampedusa obliq u a.to r (Fabricius, 1801) Hephialtes Thomson, 1864: 285 Lamia obliquator Fabricius, 1801: 303 Hy peioma obliquator Thomson, 1868a: 50 Hephialtes r uber (Thunberg, 1822), comb. nov. Plerodia obliquator Aurivillius. 1923: 342 [Catalog] Tracliyderes ruber Thunberg, 1822: 305 Orthosom.a badiu.ni Dejean (nomen nudum), 1837: The type of Hesycha lateralis Thomson, 1868 is 342 different from the type of Lamia obliquaior Fabri­ Hephialtes tricostatus Thomson, 1864: 286 cius, 1801, Dillon and Dillon wrongly interpreted Hephialtes badium Thomson, 1865: