INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 9, No. 1-2, March - June, 1995 1 Neotropical Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) ofthe Canadian Museum ofNature, Ottawa. V. Onciderini (Lamiinae). Ubirajara R. Martins Museu de Zoologia, IIniversidade de Sao Paulo Caixa Postal 7172 01064 970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil. and Maria Helena M Galileo Museu de Ciencias Naturais Funda!;3.o Zoobotanica do Rio GI ande do Sui Caixa Postal 1188 9110111-970 Porto Alegre, HS, Brasil Abstract.The tollowing new speeies are described. Lydipta hurneralis, sp. ft. and Cacostola obliquata, sp. n., from Ecuador; Lochmaeocles leuripennis, sp. n., and Carenesycha velezi, sp. n., from Colombia; Oncideres marauara, sp. n., from Brazil (Amazonas) Oncideres minllta Thomson, 1865, is recorded from Ecuador Key words' Coleoptera, Cerambycldae, Lamiinae, Onciderini Introduction Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus This fifth contribution on the Neotropical (INPp...); Museo Francisco Luis Gallego, FacuItad de Celambycidae ofthe Canadian M UBeum of Nature CienciaB, UniverBidad Nacional de Colombia, (CMNC) deals with the tribe Onciderini, a predomi­ Medellin; (UNCM); and Museu de Zoologia, nantly Neotropical group with anout 80 genera and I Iniversidade de Sao Paulo (MZSP) 400 species. The tribe was revised by Dillon and Dillon Lydipta humeralis, new species (Fig. 2) (1945, 1946). However, type material of previous authOIs, especially Thomson and Bates, was not Description. Male. Integument dalk bIOl'I'nish, examined and several species were erroneously bases of antennomeres III-XI and basal half of interpreted. Some corrections were provided in a tarsomere V yellowish. General pubescence yel­ later paper (Dillon and Dlllon, 1952) lowlsh mtermixed with glabrous areas and pnnc- In 1979, Martins studied the types of the spe- tures. Two oblique brownishfasciae oneachelytron: cies described by Erichson (1847) and additional one wider at anterior third, the other less evident synonyms and corrections were proposed. Some at posterior third. Apices of pro- and mesotibiae more corrections and descriptions ofnew taxa were dark brown. Inferior ocular lobes shorter than pllbUsbed byMartins (1981) and Martinsand GaJileo genae Antenniferous tubercles projected Anten- (1990). nae longer than body (the eighth antennomere Five new species from Ecuador, Colombia, and attainingeJYtraI apex). Scapeclavate.Antennomere Brazil (Amazonas) are described in this paper and III bisinuate. PrOIlQtum convex; sides sulcate at matelial belonging to the following institutions is basal thild. Sides ofpIOtholax unalmed. IIumelal added: Departamento de Zoologia. Universidade carina attaining middle ofelytra; a minute tubercle Federal do Parana, Curitiba (DZUP); Instituto on the carina immediatly posterior to the humeral 2 Volume 9, nos. 1-2, March-June, 1995, INSECTA MUNDI region. Femora pedunculate andclavate. Mesotibiae swollen. Measurements, in rom. Male. Total length, 7.5· 7.8; prothorax length, 1.4-1.5; prothorax width, 2.0-2.1; elytrallength, 5.3-5.4; humeral width, 2.9. Material. Ecuador. Napo-Pastaza:Limoncocha(250 m). Holotype male (CMNC). paratype male (MZSP), 15·28.VI.1976, S. and J. Peck col. Paratype col· lected in Malaise trap. Discussion. Besides L. humeralis. three other species are included in Lydipta Thomson, 1868: L. pumilio Thomson, 1868, type species; L. conspersa \ (Aurivillius, 1922) and L. senicula (Bates, 1865). I Lydipta humeralis is immediately distinguished by -< ' the tubercle on the humeral carina which is absent 1 2 in the other species. From L. sen.icula, an Amazo­ nian species, L. humeralis can be separated by the yellowish pubescence on the antennal scape with Figures 1-2: L Cocostola obliquata, sp. n., holotype male. few intermixed brown areas and by the sparser 2. Lydipto humeralis. sp. n., holotype male. elytral basal punctures. Measurements, in nun. Holotype female. Total Lochmaeocles leuripennis. new species length, 18.6; prothorax length, 3.0; prothoraxwidth, (Fig. 6). 5.5; elytrallength, 14.1; humeral width, 7.5. Description: Female. Integument dark brownish Material. Colombia. Valle: Anchicaya Dam (70 km red, paler to antennal tips. Frons sparsely orang­ E Buenaventura, 1200') Holotype female, ish-yellow pubescent; the pubescencemore concen­ 21.VII.I970. H. and A. Howden col. (CMNC). The trated in a narrow longitudinal line at sides. In­ left antenna ofthe holotype is broken at the middle ferior ocular lobes twice as long as gena. ofthe scape and the left side ofabdominal sterna IV Antenniferous tubercles projected. Upper ocular and V are destroyed. lobes distant. Vertex and occiput sparsely covered by orangish-yellow pubescence; coronal suture gla­ Discussion. Lochmaeocles leuripennis, and L. brous. Anennaeattainingelytralapices atthe middle pulcher Dillon and Dillon, 1946, are very similar of antennomere IX; antennal pubescence reddish (Figs. 5, 6). Lochmaeocles leuripennis can be imme­ brown, uniform; base of antennomeres III and IV diatelydistinguished (comparisonbetweenfemales) indistinctly paler. Pronotum densely yellowish or­ by the presence of glabrous rounded areas on the ange pubescent, with three glabrous rounded areas pronotum and by the elytral basal granulations (one larger at the middle, two at the sides). Scutel­ sparser. This latter character separates L. lum orangish yellow pubescent. Elytral basal de­ leuripen"is from L. callidryas (Bates, 1866), the clivity white pubescent; remainder of surface dark elytral base of which also has dense granulations. brown with many irregular orangish yellow macu­ lae. Basal elytral granulated punctures sparse, Cacostola obliquata, new species shallow. Prosternal process without transverse el­ (Fig. 1) evation. Venter of thorax covered by white pubes­ cence; metepisterna with yellowish orange pubes· Description: Male. Integumentdark brown; whit· cence intermixed. Yellowish pubescence on ab­ ish integument at base of antennomeres III·VI. dominal sterna and legs. General elytral integument reddish with dark brownish areas especially an oblique belt behind middle. General pubescence whitish, more concen- INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 9, No. 1-2, March - June, 1995 3 bated at. an oblique "itta anterior to the brownish some short longitudinal areas of brownish pubes­ oblique elytral belt; longitudinal area on apical cence on lateral sides ofposterior third and close to thIrd; and longitudinal sinuous stripe at sides of apex. The whitish pubescence of the obhque vltta abdominal Iilterna Pubelilcence on vertex and prologedposteriorlybysuturalregionbut not reach· pronotum uniform. Upper ocUlar lobes as dIstant as mgthe apIces. Oranglshpubescence onmesepimera the width ofone lobe, inferior ocular lobes twice as and metepisterna; whitish pubescence on long as gena. Antennae attaining elytral apices at mesosternum, metasternum, abdominal sterna I, the tip of antennomere IX, antennomere IV longer base of abdominal sterna II and middle of abdomi­ than III Pronotal disk not transversely rugose, nal sterna VA large glabrous sbiningrmmded area finely punctate. Humeral carma absent. GIbbOSIty at the SIdes of andommal sterna I. lriferlOr ocular at elytral apical fifth scarcely projected. Metatibiae lobes scarcely longer than genae. ",A~ntenniferous swollen. tubercles acuminate. Antennae attaining elytral apical four tho Scape pedunculate and clavate. Description' Female. Antennae shorter than Antennomere III curved, bisinuous; XI scarcely body, bases of antennomeres III-XI whItish; apIcal longer than half of X. Pronotum WIth three third ofantennomeres IV, VI, VIII and X brownililh. gibbolilitielil: one central and two lateral; a little glabrous area at the middle of the basal furrow. Measurenrents, in mIn,respectively male/female. Sides ofprothorax with a minute tubercle at poste- Total length, 7.417.4; prothorax length, 1.2/1.2; rior third. Humeral carina projected, punctate, prothorax WIdth, 1.311.3; elytral length, 5.5/5.5; curved, reaching elytral anterior third. hJlmeral width, 1 7/1 7 Measurements, In rom. Holotype female. Total Material. Ecuador. Manabi: Pto. Cayo (1.5 km E, length, 12.8;prothoraxlength, 2.1; prothoraxwidth, 20 m), holotype male, 28.II.1981, H. Howden col. 3.2; elytrallength, 9.4; humeral width, 4.7. (CMNC); EI Palmar, paratype female, 27.II.1965, L. Pena col. (MZSP). Material. Colombia. Antioquia: V. Medellin, holo- type female, 1.1955, Gallego col. (UNCM). Diseussion. In the key to the species of Cacostola (Dillon and Dillon, 1946: 254), C. obliquata, sp.n., Discussion. The genus Carenesycha was estab­ will key to couplet 13 where C. simplex (Pascoe, lished by Martins and Galileo (1990) for a single 1859) and C. sirena Dillon and Dillon, 1946 are species, C. carenata, described from Ecuador. separated Cacostola obliquata differs from C sim- Gnrenesycha lIelezi presents some morphological plex as follows: antennom~m.l III dililtinctly Iilhorter characters which modify the generic definition' than IV; pronotal pubescence uniform; elytra with tubercle at sides of prothorax mmute; humeral an oblique dark belt at the middle and lacking tubercle absent; presence ofglabrous macula at the longitudinal whitish vittae. Cacostola sirena was sides ofurosternite I. These characters will distin­ originally described from Venezuela and is un- guish C. velezi and C. carenata. Aside from these known to us, but by the original description and characters there are different elytral color patterns figure, the elytra have longitudinal whitililh Vittae in both Iilpecielil Wig 3 and figure 39 In MartIns and and lack a dark oblique belt. Galileo, 1990: 78),