Oreodera casariae Martins, Santos-Silva & Galileo, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera casariae

description: Oreodera casariae sp. nov.
(Figs. 25–27)
Description. Integument dark-brown; distal one-third of elytra lighter; antennomeres brown, slightly darker towards apex.
Head. Frons trapezoidal; frons, antennal tubercles, area behind eyes, and genae with whitish-yellow pubescence (not obscuring integument); vertex with brownish-yellow pubescence; kite shaped area between superior ocular lobes, along coronal suture glabrous; with sparse long setae along inner side of inferior ocular lobes and close to clypeus. Inferior ocular lobes as long as 3.4 times genal length; distance between superior ocular lobes equal to 0.2 times scape length; distance between inferior ocular lobes, in frontal view, equal to 0.6 times scape length. Antennae as long as 3.3 times elytral length; reaching elytral apex at apex of antennomere V; scape with sparse dark setae ventrally; pedicel and antennomeres III–VI with long, dark setae ventrally (sparser from III to VI); basal one-third of antennomere VI with visible pubescent ring; antennal formula (ratio) based on antennomere III: scape = 0.64; pedicel = 0.15; IV = 0.98; V = 0.87; VI = 0.85; VII = 0.78; VIII = 0.70; IX = 0.74; X = 0.78; XI = 1.04.
Thorax. Pronotum with three low tubercles; anterior and posterior margins with row of coarse punctures; disc coarsely, sparsely punctate (punctures more abundant at center); pubescence mostly brownish-yellow, sparser on sub-triangular area at center, yellowish-white close to anterior margin; with long, sparse setae. Lateral tubercles of pronotum rounded. Mesepisterna, mesepimera, metepisterna and metasternum pubescent. Scutellum with brownish-yellow pubescence. Elytra coarsely, deeply, punctate on basal two-thirds (except center-distal area, which is impunctate, and laterally where punctures are sparser), distal one-third smooth. Elytral pubescence: brownish-yellow basally on each side of scutellum; a wide white band, from suture to epipleura, touching apex of scutellum, distally widely, deeply emarginate at center; each side of suture brownish-yellow to apex, moderately sparse on sub-elliptical white area inside of distal emargination; very short, sparse light brown pubescence in irregular lateral area, close to white band (reaching epipleura); part of distal margin of the latter with narrow irregular margin of whitish pubescence; apex truncate, slightly projected laterally, rounded at sutural angle.
Abdomen. Urosternites pubescent. Legs. Femora clavate; club of profemora notably wide, tumid at middle; club of mesofemora also notably wide at middle, but less tumid; club of metafemora narrower and less tumid than pro- and mesofemora, with longer peduncle. Protarsomere I as long as 0.65 times II–III together; metatarsomere I as long as 0.80 times II–III together.
Dimensions in mm (male). Total length, 7.7; length of prothorax at center, 1.5; widest width of prothorax (between apices of tubercles), 2.5; anterior width of prothorax, 2.2; posterior width of prothorax, 2.2; humeral width, 3.0; elytral length, 5.5.
Type material. Holotype male from PANAMA, Colón: Fort Sherman (09º17’N, 79º59’W), 4.V.2002, F. Odegaard col. (USNM).
Diagnosis. Oreodera casariae differs from O. aglaia Monné & Fragoso, 1988 as follows: elytral punctures coarse (fine in O. aglaia); pronotal tubercles slightly distinct (very distinct in O. aglaia); white elytral pubescence reaching suture (not reaching in O. aglaia). It differs from O. albata Villiers, 1971, O. basiradiata Tippmann, 1960, and O. trinitensis Néouze & Tavakilian, 2010, by the white pubescence of elytra reaching epipleura along all its length (not reaching middle in the other three species). It differs from O. amabilis Monné & Fragoso, 1988 by the white pubescence of elytra not reaching the apex, and reaching the epipleura along its entire length (reaches the apex, and does not reach epipleura on two areas in O. amabilis). It can be separated from O. dalensi Tavakilian & Néouze, 2011 by the wide, deep emargination at the distal center of white elytral band (absent in O. dalensi). It differs from O. griseozonata Bates, 1861 by the absence of white or yellowish irregular band of pubescence at the distal one-third third of elytra (present in O. griseozonata), and by the wide, deep emargination at distal center of white elytral band (absent in O. griseozonata). Oreodera casariae differs from O. larrei Néouze & Tavakilian, 2010 by the white elytral pubescence laterally and near to the suture without dark macula (present in O. larrei). Also, it differs from O. veronicae Néouze & Tavakilian, 2010 by the white elytral pubescence reaching the scutellum (does not in O. veronicae), and by the pubescence on the pronotum not forming central band (forming band in O. veronicae).
Etymology.The species is named for Sônia Aparecida Casari (MZSP), expert on Elateridae Leach, 1815, for her friendship.
description: Published as part of Martins, Ubirajara R., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2015, Fourteen new species, one new genus, and eleven new country or state records for New World Lamiinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 81-105 in Zootaxa 3980 (1) on pages 91-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/236725