University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 9-25-2020 Review of species of Anelaphus Linsley and its new synonym Gymnopsyra Linsley from the United States and Canada with description of a new species, synonymies, distributional notes and an illustrated identification ek y (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini) Steven W. Lingafelter Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. A journal of world insect systematics INSECTA MUNDI 0798 Review of species of Anelaphus Linsley Page Count: 30 and its new synonym Gymnopsyra Linsley from the United States and Canada with description of a new species, synonymies, distributional notes and an illustrated identification key (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini) Steven W. Lingafelter 8920 S. Bryerly Ct., Hereford, Arizona, 85615 Date of issue: September 25, 2020 Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc., Gainesville, FL Lingafelter SW. 2020. Review of species of Anelaphus Linsley and its new synonym Gymnopsyra Linsley from the United States and Canada with description of a new species, synonymies, distributional notes and an illustrated identification key (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini). Insecta Mundi 0798: 1–30. Published on September 25, 2020 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P.O. 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A review and illustrated key to Anelaphus Linsley, 1936 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini) of the United States and Canada is provided, along with taxonomic and distributional notes. Gymnopsyra Linsley, 1937, is a new synonym of Anelaphus. Gymnopsyra chemsaki Linsley, 1963 is a new synonym of Gymnopsyra magnipunctatus (Knull, 1934). Anelaphus hoferi (Knull, 1934) and Anelaphus tuckeri (Casey, 1924) are new synonyms of Anelaphus simile (Schaeffer, 1908). Anelaphus parallelus (Newman, 1840), An­ elaphus rusticus (LeConte, 1850), and Anelaphus davisi Skiles, 1985 are new synonyms of Anelaphus villosus (Fabricius, 1792). Anelaphus aspera (Knull, 1962), Anelaphus bupalpa (Chemsak, 1991), and Anelaphus mag­ nipunctatus (Knull, 1934) are all new combinations. Anelaphus brummermannae Lingafelter, new species, is described from Arizona. Key words. Longhorned beetle, wood-borer, taxonomy, classification, faunistics, Nearctic. ZooBank registration. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A03A123F-CB4E-409D-AF00-C1C6D17091E5 Introduction Elaphidiini Thomson, 1864 currently contain 93 genera and approximately 630 species occurring only in the Western Hemisphere from southern Canada to Chile and Argentina (Monné 2019). Anelaphus Linsley, 1936 currently has 66 species ranging from North to South America. Many species are dull colored and lack distinct patterns or morphological features. Good lighting and magnification are essential to make accurate identifica- tions. Compounding the confusion in this group is the fact that taxa have been described throughout the last 100 years without adequate comparison to similar taxa and without consultation with contemporary taxonomists who were working with the same fauna in the same regions of the United States. Sometimes, as additional species of Elaphidiini were described, original generic concepts were either unmodified or ignored. This study attempts to remedy the confusion as it relates to the genera Anelaphus and Gymnopsyra Linsley, 1937. Generic and species synonymies are made and justification through historical literature review and char- acter analysis is provided. One new generic and six new specific synonymies are proposed and a new species of Anelaphus from Arizona is described. With these taxonomic changes, there are now 22 species of Anelaphus known from the United States and Canada. An illustrated key to all of these species is provided. Additional bio- logical, distributional, and taxonomic notes are provided for many species. The goal of this work is to bring more order and stability to the tribe Elaphidiini and better enable accurate identifications for future works involving systematics, taxonomy, and ecology. 2 · September 25, 2020 Lingafelter Materials and Methods The collections listed below were examined in the course of this research. The acronyms are used in the Material Examined sections following each species account. ASUC Arizona State University Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. (N. Franz, S. Lee) DJHC Daniel J. Heffern Collection, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. FWSC Fred W. Skillman, Jr. Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. JEWC James E. Wappes Collection, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. JHC Jeffrey Huether Collection, Geneva, New York, U.S.A. RFMC Roy F. Morris Collection, Lakeland, Florida, U.S.A. SWLC Steven W. Lingafelter Collection, Hereford, Arizona, U.S.A. SWRS Southwestern Research Station Collection, Portal, Arizona, U.S.A. (M. Lanan) UAIC University of Arizona Insect Collection, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. (W. Moore, G. Hall) USNM National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A. (C. Micheli) ZMKC Zoologische Museum, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany (M. Kuhlmann, D. Brandis) The online and printed primary type photographic database of the Smithsonian Institution (Lingafelter et al. 2014, 2020), the online catalogues of New World Cerambycidae (Bezark 2019), and the online primary type databases of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 2020) and Museum of Comparative Zoology (2020) were also accessed to make comparative studies of other material. Imaging, measurements, and microscopy were undertaken with a Nikon Digital Sight DS-F12 camera mounted on a Nikon SMZ18 Stereomicroscope equipped with SHR Plan Apo 0.5× and 1× lenses.