A list of the Cerambycidae of Honduras, with additions of previously unrecorded species Robert H. Turnbow, Jr.1, Ronald D. Cave2 and Michael C. Thomas3 Abstract. An annotated list of the Cerambycidae of Honduras is presented. Six hundred and twenty six species, including 372 species previously unrecorded from the country, are reported. Detailed collection data are presented for those species recorded from Honduras for the first time. Key words: Coleoptera, new country records. Resumen. Se presenta una lista anotada de la familia Cerambycidae de Honduras. Se reportan 626 especies, incluyendo 372 especies no previamente reportada del país. Se presentan los datos detallados de recolecta para aquellas especies registradas de Honduras por primera vez. Palabras clave: Coleoptera, nuevos registros nacionales. Introduction whose specimens’ identities can be established with a degree of certainty. Additional material representing a In 1980, Chemsak et al. published a list of records number of other species is available in scattered of the Cerambycidae of Honduras. That list was based collections, but species of questionable or uncertain primarily on the collection assembled at the Escuela taxonomic status, specimens with tentative species Nacional de Ciencias Forestales, Siguatepeque, by J.V. identifications and specimens of species that are Mankins and trips made by J.A. Chemsak with E.G. apparently undescribed are not included in the present and J.M. Linsley and A. and M. Michelbacher and W. list. Middlekauff (material deposited in the Essig Museum The taxonomic arrangement of the list follows of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley). Monné and Giesbert (1994). The format used is a Additional records came from the private collections modification of that established by Chemsak et al. of Edmund F. Giesbert (EFGC, now in the FSCA) and (1980). Species previously recorded from Honduras Gary V. Manley (now in the United States National are listed with the earliest located literature record Museum, Washington, D.C.). The 1980 list was, at the being cited. New Departamento records for these admission of its authors, preliminary in nature and was species are indicated by (NR). For species not only intended to reflect the knowledge of the fauna at previously recorded from the country, label data from that time. In the intervening period, the present all available specimens are presented. Label data are authors and their colleagues and students and field presented verbatim except dates are standardized assistants of R.D. Cave while at the Escuela Agrícola (month expressed as a Roman numeral-day(s)-year Panamericana, Zamorano, have continued surveillance expressed as a two digit character). For a specimen efforts of the Cerambycidae of Honduras in an attempt whose data are cited, the coden of the collection in to improve our understanding of the distribution of which it is housed is given in parentheses. Codens species in the family in Central America. used (see acknowledgements) are those of Arnett et al. The present list includes only described species 1 Ph.D., ATZQ-DEL-PC, 1120 Dilly Branch Road, Ft. Rucker, AL 36362-5105, [email protected]. 2 Ph.D., Indian River Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 2199 South Rock Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, [email protected]. 3 Ph.D., Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, [email protected]. 1 Ceiba, 2003. Volumen 44(1):1-43 Ceiba Volumen 44(1) enero-junio, 2003 (1993) whenever available. Emendations of the authors (Chemsak et al. 1980), Copán (Chemsak et al. 1980), are shown in brackets. New data presented are for the Francisco Morazán (NR), La Paz (Chemsak et al. period 1977-2003 and are chronologically arranged by 1980), Lempira (NR), Ocotepeque(NR), Olancho date of collection under each species heading. (Chemsak et al. 1980), Santa Bárbara (Chemsak et al. Subfamilial, tribal and subtribal names have been 1980), Yoro (NR) (all Chemsak et al. 1980 records as included. Genera are presented alphabetically within Parandra polita Say). 3. Hesperandra (Tavandra) villei (Lameere) tribes; species are presented alphabetically within Cortés, Lk. Yojoa, Agua Azul, [no date], F.S. Blanton, genera. A.B. Brooke & R.E. Woodruff, in black light trap (FSCA). Acknowledgements. For loan of material and access 4. Hesperandra (Zikandra) glabra (Degeer) to collections we are indebted to the following Atlántida (NR), Comayagua (NR), Cortés (NR), institutions and individuals: Dagoberto Nuñez, Olancho (NR), Santa Bárbara (Chemsak et al. 1980 as Colección Entomológica, Escuela Nacional de Parandra glabra Degeer), Yoro (NR). Ciencias Forestales, Siguatepeque (CEEF); Charles W. O'Brien (CWOC); Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Erichsoniini Zamorano (EAPZ); Edmund F. Giesbert (EFGC, 5. Erichsonia dentifrons Westwood collection deposited in the FSCA); Florida State Fco. Morazán, Cerro Uyuca, II-26-89, R.D. Cave Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville (FSCA); Frank (RDCC); ibid V-16-94, at mercury vapor lamp; T. Hovore (FTHC); Fred W. Skillman, Jr. (FWSC); Ocotepeque, R.B. Güisayote, mv + bl, V-21-95, R. Turnbow (RHTC); ibid V-22-95; Ocotepeque, James E. Wappes (JEWC); Jeffrey P. Huether (JPHC), Güisayote Bio Prv, V-21-95, J.E. Wappes (JEWC); Ronald D. Cave (RDCC); Roy F. Morris, II (RFMC), Ocotepeque, El Portillo, Güisayote Bio Preserve, V- Robert H. Turnbow, Jr. (RHTC), Edward G. Riley 21-22-95, R. Morris (RFMC); Ocotepeque, El Portillo, (TAMU) and Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of V-21-23-95, J. Huether (JPHC); Olancho, Parq Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln (UNSM). Ronald D. Nacional La Muralla/Zona Nucleo 1460 m., V-26-95, Cave was the curator of the EAPZ; Michael C. Thomas R. Cave EAPZ); [Cortés], Parque Nacional Cusuco, is the curator of the Coleoptera Section of the FSCA. VI-22-95, Dagoberto Nuñez H. (CEEF); Fco. Critical reviews of the final draft of the manuscript by Morazán, Parque Nac La Tigra, VII-10-95, en flight John A. Chemsak and Frank T. Hovore resulted in intercept trap (EAPZ); Olancho, Parq Nac La Muralla, significant improvements to the list. Any remaining 14 km N La Unión, 15°07’N86°45’W, V-17-96, R.D. errors of inclusion or omission are the responsibility of Cave (RDCC); Olancho, La Unión, Parque Nac La the authors. This paper was approved for publication Muralla, N15°07’W86°45’, V-24-96, J. Torres (EAPZ); Cortés, Parq Nac Cusuco, N15°29’W88°13’, as Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal VII-8-99, J. Torres & R. Cordero (EAPZ); Cortés, Series No. R-09611. Parq Nac Cusuco, 1450 m, N15°29’47’’W88°12’43’’, VII-1-00, RD Cave (RDCC). List of Species Prioninae Parandrinae Macrotomini Parandrini 6. Aplagiognathus hybostoma Bates 1. Parandra (Parandra) angulicollis Bates Ocotepeque, Sinuapa, VI-16-94, R. Cordero (EAPZ); Atlántida (Chemsak et al. 1980), Comayagua Ocotepeque, Res Biol Güisayote 1800 m., VII-24-94, (Chemsak et al. 1980), Cortés (NR), Francisco R. Cordero (EAPZ); Olancho, Parq Nac La Muralla Morazán (Chemsak et al. 1980), La Paz (Chemsak et 1450 m, N15°07’W86°45’, V-24-96, J. Torres al. 1980), Olancho (NR), Santa Bárbara (Chemsak et (EAPZ); ibid N15°05’51”W86°44’19”, V-9-99, J. al. 1980), Yoro (NR). Torres & D. Hawks (EAPZ); Cortés, Parq Nac Cusuco, 2. Hesperandra (Tavandra) polita (Say) IV-24-98, R.D. Cave (RDCC); Francisco Morazán, Atlántida (Chemsak et al. 1980), Comayagua Cerro Apalagua, V-12-02, J. Huether (JPHC). 2 Turnbow et al.: A list of the Cerambycidae of Honduras, with additions of previously unrecorded species 7. Aplagiognathus spinosus (Newman) Vista 1000 m, N15°09’59”W87°38’18”, IX-10-99, R. El Paraíso, Los Lavanderos, Guinope, VI-5-88, R.D. Cave, J. Torres & R. Díaz (EAPZ); Yoro, Linda Vista Cave (RDCC); Francisco Morazán, Monte Uyuca nr. 1450 m., Parq Nac Pico Pijol, Zamorano, 1900 m., IV-23-93, L. Stange & R. Miller N15°09’28”W87°37’33”, VI-17-99, J. Torres & R. (FSCA); El Paraíso, Cerro Monserrat, Yuscarán 1780 Cordero (EAPZ); ibid VIII-10-99; Yoro, Parq Nac m., N13°55’W86°53’, V-23-93, W. Morjan (EAPZ); Pico Bonito, El Portillo 640 m., FM [Francisco Morazán], Cerro Uyuca, elev. 2100 m., N15°26’27”W87°08’09”, IV-14-00, R. Reyes (EAPZ); VI-6-93, F.W. Skillman, Jr. (FWSC); Fco. Morazán, Atlántida, RVS Cuero y Salado, Boca Cerrada 2 m, El Jicarito, VI-18-93, W. Morjan (EAPZ); N15°47’W87°06’, IX-22-00, O. Flores (EAPZ); Yoro, Ocotepeque, Sinuapa, Güisayote, VII-29-94, R. Parque Nacional Pico Bonito, El Portillo 640 m, Cordero (EAPZ); Ocotepeque, R.B. Güisayote, mv + N15°26’27”W87°08’09”, IX-28-00, R. Cave & J. bl, V-21-95, R. Turnbow (RHTC); ibid V-22-95; Torres (EAPZ); Atlántida, Parque Nacional Pico Ocotepeque, Güisayote Bio Prv, V-21-95, J.E. Bonito, Estación CURLA 185 m, Wappes; Ocotepeque, El Portillo, Güisayote 130 Bio N15°42’07”W86°50’48”, III-20-01, F. Martinez Preserve, V-21-22-95, R. Morris (RFMC); (EAPZ); Gracias a Dios, Reserva de la Biósfera Río Ocotepeque, El Portillo, V-21-23-95, J. Huether Plátano, Pansana 75 m, N15°02’43”W84°49’47”, IV- (JPHC); Yoro, Victoria, Pico Pijol, VI-30-95, R. 24-01, R. Cave & R. Cordero (EAPZ); Atlántida, Cordero (EAPZ); Olancho, Parq Nac La Muralla, 14 Parque Nacional Pico Bonito, Estación CURLA 185 km N La Unión, 15°07’N86°45’W, V-17-96, at m, N15°42’07”W86°50’48”, V-22-01, Cave, Torres & mercury vapor lamp, R.D. Cave (RDCC); Fco. Samayoa (EAPZ); ibid VIII-20-01; Yoro, PN Pico Morazán, Cerro Montaña del Aguacate 1800 m, V-21- Pijol, mv + bl, VII-23-01, R. Turnbow (RHTC); 96, R.D.