University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 8-11-2017 Review of Carelli, A., and M.L. Monné, 2015. Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera- Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) Robin O. S. Clarke Hotel Flora & Fauna, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Clarke, Robin O. S., "Review of Carelli, A., and M.L. Monné, 2015. Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)" (2017). Insecta Mundi. 1069. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1069 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. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0567 Review of Carelli, A., and M.L. Monné, 2015. Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) Robin O. S. Clarke Hotel Flora and Fauna, Buena Vista Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia Date of Issue: August 11, 2017 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Robin O. S. Clarke Review of Carelli, A., and M.L. Monné, 2015. Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) Insecta Mundi 0567: 1-10 ZooBank Registered: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3718DEB6-8FCF-4F6C-A0D4-AF8470322002 Published in 2017 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/ Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non- marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy, nomenclature, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. Insecta Mundi will not consider works in the applied sciences (i.e. medical entomology, pest control research, etc.), and no longer publishes book reviews or editorials. Insecta Mundi pub- lishes original research or discoveries in an inexpensive and timely manner, distributing them free via open access on the internet on the date of publication. Insecta Mundi is referenced or abstracted by several sources including the Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, etc. Insecta Mundi is published irregularly throughout the year, with completed manuscripts assigned an indi- vidual number. Manuscripts must be peer reviewed prior to submission, after which they are reviewed by the editorial board to ensure quality. One author of each submitted manuscript must be a current member of the Center for Systematic Entomology. Manuscript preparation guidelines are availablr at the CSE website. Chief Editor: David Plotkin, e-mail: [email protected] Assistant Editor: Paul E. Skelley, e-mail: [email protected] Head Layout Editor: Eugenio H. Nearns Editorial Board: J. H. Frank, M. J. Paulsen, Michael C. Thomas Review Editors: Listed on the Insecta Mundi webpage Manuscript Preparation Guidelines and Submission Requirements available on the Insecta Mundi web- page at: http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/ Printed copies (ISSN 0749-6737) annually deposited in libraries: CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo, Brazil Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada The Natural History Museum, London, Great Britain Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warsaw, Poland National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Electronic copies (On-Line ISSN 1942-1354, CDROM ISSN 1942-1362) in PDF format: Printed CD or DVD mailed to all members at end of year. Archived digitally by Portico. Florida Virtual Campus: http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/insectamundi University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/ Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-135240 Copyright held by the author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduc- tion in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/ Layout Editor for this article: Michael C. Thomas 0567: 1-10 2017 Review of Carelli, A., and M.L. Monné, 2015. Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) Robin O. S. Clarke Hotel Flora and Fauna, Buena Vista Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia [email protected] Abstract. The taxonomic history of the rhinotragine genera Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian and Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) are discussed, and evidence is presented to suggest that some recent taxonomic changes made by Carelli and Monné (2015) were unjustified. Consequently, Phygopoda nigritarsis Gounelle, 1911 is moved to the genus Neophygopoda Melzer, 1933, creating the new combination Neophygopoda nigritarsis, the genera Panamapoda Clarke, 2014 and Paraphygopoda Clarke, 2014 are revalidated, and the species Paraphygopoda viridimicans (Fisher, 1952) and Paraphygopoda nappae Clarke, 2014 are also revalidated. Key words. New combination, revalidations, Rhinotragini, taxonomy. Introduction Tavakilian and Peñaherrera-Leiva (2007) described the monotypic genus Pseudophygopoda for Phygopoda subvestita (White, 1855). They did not include Phygopoda albitarsis (Klug, 1825) or Phygopoda panamaensis Giesbert, 1996 in their genus, nor Epimelitta longipennis Zajciw, 1963 and Epimelitta viridimicans (Fisher, 1952). They diagnosed their genus (apparently based on three females) as follows: Rostrum moderately long. Inferior lobes of eyes not contiguous. Apex of antennae not passing middle of urosternite II. Pronotum transverse. Prosternal process laminate and abruptly bent upwards towards apex. Procoxal cavities broadly open behind. Elytra dehiscent for more than half their length, and extended into long, rounded lobe towards apex; the latter not passing base of urosternite II. Hind leg: apex of metafemur not passing apex of abdomen; femoral peduncle short; tibia with dense brush on apical half; first tarsal segment about three times longer than second. Last abdominal segment truncate at apex; excavate at apex in male (the latter character state was presumably observed in a photograph). Clarke (2014) revised a Rhinotragini species group sharing a combination of characters of special diagnostic value as follows: “ prosternal process in males entirely laminate or weakly golf tee-shaped (as in most females); procoxal cavities widely open behind, and acutely angled at sides; elytra subulate (the apical third narrowly lobate), rather short, subfissate, or strongly dehiscent; mesosternum not declivous (weakly inclined to, and almost planar with mesosternal process); in male procoxae surmounted by conical tubercle; metatibia with long-haired, dense brush (but see Phygomelitta Clarke, 2014); lateral lobes of tegmen tongs-shaped, with abruptly widened, somewhat flattened apices.” Eight species (in- cluding two new ones) conformed to this diagnosis and were placed into either Pseudophygopoda or one of four new genera: Panamapoda Clarke, 2014, Paraphygopoda Clarke, 2014, Paramelitta Clarke, 2014 and Phygomelitta. Carelli and Monné (2015) revised the genera Phygopoda and Pseudophygopoda and established the following new synonymies: Panamapoda Clarke, 2014 and Paraphygopoda Clarke, 2014 = Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian and Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007; Paraphygopoda viridimicans (Fisher, 1952), Paraphygopoda nappae Clarke, 2014 and Paraphygopoda longipennis (Zajciw, 1963) = Pseudophygopoda albitarsis (Klug, 1825). They did this without providing a formal diagnosis of Pseudophygopoda. 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0567, August 2017 CLARKE Materials and Methods During the process of making the taxonomic changes presented herein, data taken from specimens from the following institutions has been incorporated: FSCA — Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida, USA. MNKM — Museo Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. MZSP — Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. USNM — National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. The individual specimen data are as follows. The differences between ‘specimens analyzed’ and ‘specimens examined’ are explained in Clarke (2014). Pseudophygopoda subvestita Tavakilian and Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 Specimens analyzed: BRAZIL, Amazonas, S. Gabriel, Rio Negro, 1