Aneflomorpha linsleyae Chemsak
Creators: name: Lingafelter, Steven W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Aneflomorpha
Aneflomorpha linsleyae

description: Aneflomorpha linsleyae Chemsak
(Fig. 2a, 5j, 7j, 8i, 9i, 10j, 11c)
Aneflomorpha linsleyae Chemsak 1962: 105.
Diagnosis. Length 13–16 mm, pronotum averages 1.05 times longer than wide, elytra together average 3.30 times longer than wide (Fig. 2a). Integument rufous. Antennae carinate (Fig. 9i). Spine of third antennomere blunt or subacute, nearly 1.5 times longer than the second antennomere and spine of the fourth antennomere, projecting away from antennal plane by nearly 45 degrees (Fig. 9i). Pronotum with dense, mostly contiguous punctures of similar size and mostly unobscured by moderately dense, but fine and erect setae; very small post-median impunctate callus sometimes present (Fig. 5j). Elytral apices bidentate to weakly bispinose (Fig. 8i). Elytral pubescence consisting only of uniformly distributed, translucent or golden, erect setae, without recumbent setae (Fig. 7j). Procoxal cavities open by less than half the width of the broadly expanded prosternal process (Fig. 10j). Protibia flattened laterally and non-carinate (Fig. 11c).
Discussion. The light rufous integument with uniformly distributed, erect setae with absence of recumbent setae are distinctive for this species. Only the two species in the eastern United States, A. delongi and A. subpubescens, are similar in color and pubescence. Aneflomorpha delongi has a much longer spine of the third antennomere which is nearly half the length of the fourth antennomere (Fig. 9e) unlike A. linsleyae in which it is only about one-fourth the length of the fourth antennomere (Fig. 9i). The spine of antennomere three in A. subpubescens is acute and not strongly projecting away from the antennal plane (Fig. 9q), unlike A. linsleyae. Aneflomorpha aculeata is also similar in coloration and pubescence, but the presence of recumbent elytral setae (Fig. 7a) and protibial base not flattened (as in Fig. 11h) immediately distinguishes it from A. linsleyae.
Distribution and biology. This rarely encountered species is primarily restricted to the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona (Chemsak 1962; Linsley 1963), although one specimen has been examined from the Patagonia Mountains. No larval hosts or adult associations have been documented; adults have been taken most commonly at lights at the Southwestern Research Station and the South Fork of Cave Creek in nearby Cave Creek Canyon and in Rucker Canyon in late July and August.
Material examined. USA: Arizona: Cochise Co., S. W.Res.Sta. 27 July 1976, Lester L. Lampert, U.V. light (RFMC); Cochise Co., Cave Creek Canyon, South Fork Cave Creek, 1610 m, 31° 52.377′ N, 109° 11.059′ W, 16 July 2018, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter (SWLC); Cochise Co., Southwestern Research Station, 1645 m, 31° 53.006′ N, 109° 12.355′ W, 7–16 August 2018, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter (SWLC); Cochise Co., John Hands Picnic Area, 1700 m, 31° 52′ 44″N, 109° 13′ 18″W, 24 July 2022, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter (2, SWLC); Cochise Co., Paradise Rd. & Forest Rd 42 near East Turkey Creek, 1955 m, 31.908710 °, −109.251056 °, 9 August 2018, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter (SWLC); Cochise Co., Red Rock Canyon Trail, Rucker Canyon, F. W. Skillman, Jr. (FWSC); Chiricahua Wilderness, Pinery Canyon, 16 July 2009, W. Seifert (TAMU); Santa Cruz Co., 10 mi. S. Patagonia, 31.4585°, −110.7281°, 2 August 2019, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp (KESC).
description: Published as part of Lingafelter, Steven W., 2022, Revision of Aneflomorpha Casey and Neaneflus Linsley (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the United States with an illustrated key to species, pp. 1-59 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (954) on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7399054