Cendiunopsis garnieri Tavakilian & Santos-Silva 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tavakilian, Gérard L.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cendiunopsis
Cendiunopsis garnieri

description: Cendiunopsis garnieri, sp. nov.
(Figs 19–21)
Description. Female. Head dark brown, almost black, except reddish genal apex, anteclypeus and mostly or labrum; palpi light reddish brown, darkened on some areas; scape mostly dark reddish brown, with distal area blackish; pedicel and antennomeres blackish except short reddish brown basal ring; prothorax blackish dorsally, gradually dark reddish brown toward ventral side, with prosternal process mostly light reddish brown; ventral side of mesothorax from dark reddish brown to dark brown, with mesoventral process mostly light reddish brown; ventral side of metathorax from dark reddish brown to dark brown (almost black); elytra mostly dark brown with some areas dark reddish brown on basal half; femora entirely reddish brown or with large, irregular dark brown areas; tibiae entirely dark reddish brown or with dorsal side mostly dark brown; tarsomeres reddish brown basally, gradually blackish toward apex; abdominal ventrites mostly dark brown.
Head. Frons finely, sparsely punctate; with dark khaki pubescence nearly obscuring integument (more so in paratype); with long, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae. Area between antennal tubercles and upper eye lobes somewhat flattened; with yellowish brown pubescence obscuring integument, except small, glabrous sub-diamond, central area in the holotype; with long, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae. Remaining surface of vertex finely, sparsely punctate; with yellowish brown pubescence nearly obscuring integument on wide triangular central area, slightly yellower and obscuring integument anteriorly and toward area behind eyes; with long, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae. Area behind eyes with dense yellowish brown pubescence, gradually lighter toward gena. Gena with dense pale yellow pubescence except narrow, glabrous distal area. Antennal tubercles with pubescence as on frons, sparser on apical area. Submentum shining, glabrous. Distance between upper eye lobes 0.37 times length of scape; in frontal view, distance between lower eye lobes 0.82 times length of scape. Antennae 0.75 times elytral length; scape with yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument, interspersed with long, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae, more abundant, longer ventrally at distal area; antennomeres III–VI ventrally with yellowish brown pubescence, brownish dorsally and laterally, except yellowish white pubescence laterally on basal area; antennomeres VII–XI with slightly distinct brownish pubescence, except sparse yellowish white setae basally; pedicel and antennomeres III–VIII with long, erect, dark setae ventrally, gradually shorter, sparser toward VIII; antennal formula (ratio) based on length of antennomere III (holotype): scape = 0.68; pedicel = 0.21; IV = 0.33; V = 0.25; VI = 0.21; VII = 0.18; VIII = 0.18; IX = 0.16; X = 0.16; XI = 0.23.
Thorax. Pronotum moderately coarsely, sparsely punctate; central gibbosity elongate, from basal quarter to after middle, slightly more elevate at apex of this area, then carina-shaped, slightly distinct toward distal margin; lateral gibbosities less conspicuous, placed each side of basal half; wide central area with yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument, gradually denser toward distal area; area on lateral gibbosities of prothorax with dense pale yellow pubescence; remaining lateral area with dense dark golden pubescence; with long, erect, moderately abundant yellowish brown setae throughout. Sides of prothorax with wide, transverse pale yellow pubescent band close to pronotum, dark golden toward ventral side (color somewhat different depending on angle of light source). Ventral side of thorax with yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument. Scutellum with yellowish brown pubescence partially obscuring integument. Elytra. Moderately coarsely and abundantly punctate on basal half, nearly indistinct on distal half; with narrow pale yellow sutural band from scutellum to near apex; with moderately wide light yellowish brown pubescent band, starting dorsally on humeral area, following obliquely toward epipleura at about middle; with narrow pale yellow pubescent band along lateral margin; remaining surface with yellowish brown pubescence, distinct sparser on basal third, gradually denser toward apex (becoming similar in color to oblique pubescent band on basal half); with short, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae throughout. Legs. Femora with yellowish white pubescence not obscuring integument, ventrally interspersed with long, erect yellowish setae. Metatarsomere I 0.75 times length of II–III together; metatarsomere V about as long as II–III together.
Abdomen. Ventrites I–II with pale yellow pubescence throughout, obscuring integument laterally; ventrites III–IV with dense yellow pubescence throughout; ventrite V with yellowish brown pubescence not obscuring integument, shorter than on remaining ventrites; with long, erect, sparse yellowish brown setae on all ventrites; distal area of ventrite V centrally inclined; distal margin of ventrite V truncate, slightly emarginate centrally.
Dimensions (holotype / paratype). Total length, 14.60/14.10; prothoracic length, 2.70/2.50; basal prothoracic width, 3.15/3.15; distal prothoracic width, 2.90/2.80; widest prothoracic width, 3.75/3.65; humeral width, 4.50/ 4.30; elytral length, 11.10/10.65.
Type material. Holotype female from FRENCH GUIANA: Route de Kaw (pk 30), 24.VIII.1987, T. Garnier col. [# 993 ex collection IRD] (MNHN). Paratype female from FRENCH GUIANA: Route de Kaw (pk 45), 30.VIII.1986, P. & J. P. Serais col. [# 993 ex collection IRD] (MNHN).
Etymology. In honor of Thierry Garnier, French entomologist living in Montpellier who collected the holotype and generously offered it to the first author. He already collected several holotypes described from Africa and New Caledonia, and we are happy to recall his name to French Guiana’s fauna of Cerambycidae.
description: Published as part of Tavakilian, Gérard L. & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2019, New Hemilophini, Aerenicini and Calliini from French Guiana, transference and notes on Hemilophini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 507-522 in Zootaxa 4555 (4) on pages 514-517, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2585299