Anisopodus lignicola Bates 1863
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Nascimento, Francisco E. De L.
name: Kozlov, Anton Olegovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anisopodus
Anisopodus lignicola

description: Anisopodus lignicola Bates, 1863
(Figures 47–48)
Anisopodus lignicola Bates, 1863b: 287; Aurivillius, 1923: 397 (cat.); Blackwelder, 1946: 613 (checklist); Gilmour, 1965: 568 (cat.); Rémillet, 1988: 133 (distr.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 240 (checklist); Monné, 1995: 65 (cat.); Tavakilian et al., 1997: 338 (hosts); Monné, 2001: 6 (cat. hosts); 2005: 19 (cat.); Wappes et al., 2006: 34 (distr.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 176 (checklist); Morvan & Roguet, 2013: 4 (distr.); Monné, 2018b: 19 (cat.).
Anisopus lignicola: Gemminger, 1873: 3150 (cat.).
Anisopodus humeralis Bates, 1863b: 288; Aurivillius, 1923: 396 (cat.); Blackwelder, 1946: 613 (checklist); Gilmour, 1965: 568 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 240 (checklist); Monné, 1995: 65 (cat.); 2005: 19 (cat.); Wappes et al., 2006: 34 (distr.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 176 (checklist); Swift et al., 2010: 35 (distr.); Maes et al., 2010b: 402 (distr.); Wappes et al., 2013: 8 (distr.); Lingafelter et al., 2017: 145; Monné, 2018b: 19 (cat.). Syn. nov.
Anisopus humeralis; Gemminger, 1873: 3150 (cat.).
Bates (1863b) described Anisopodus lignicola (Fig. 48) based on syntypes (number of specimens not stated) from Brazil (“ Pará and the banks of the Tapajos”). In the same work he described Anisopodus humeralis (Fig. 47) based on a single specimen from Brazil (Amazonas—“S. Paulo, Upper Amazons [S„o Paulo de Olivença]”). Still according to him, “It is possible, notwithstanding the great difference in colour, that it [A. humeralis] may be but a local variety of A. lignicola.” Besides differences in color reported by Bates (1863b), which evidently are only variations of the same species, there are no other differences between the holotype of A. humeralis and the syntypes of A. lignicola. Furthermore, one of the syntypes of A. lignicola, photographed by Jesus de Santiago Moure in the 1970s, has the general color nearly identical to that of the holotype of A. humeralis. Accordingly, A. humeralis is considered a junior synonym of A. lignicola.
Currently, A. lignicola occurs in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Bolivia (Cochabamba, Santa Cruz) (Monné 2018b).
Material examined (all from the MZSP collection). BOLIVIA, Cochabamba: Villa Tunari, 4 males, 2 females, 10-25.XI.1992, G. Arriagada col. BRAZIL, Amazonas: Tapuruquara (Rio Negro), 1 male, 2 females, 1.XII.1962, J. Bechyné col.; Borba (Rio Madeira), 1 female, V.1952, former Dirings collection. Pará: Oriximiná (Boca do Cuminá-Miri), 1 female, 16-26.I.1968, Expediç „o Permanente Amazonas col. Maranhão (new state record): Igarapé Gurupi-Uma (Aldeia Araçu; 50 km E Canindé), 1 male, 1 female, V.1963, B. Malkin col.
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Nascimento, Francisco E. De L. & Kozlov, Anton Olegovich, 2019, The megadiverse fauna of Neotropical Cerambycidae (Coleoptera): Notes, descriptions, new records, new species, and revalidations, pp. 441-472 in Zootaxa 4603 (3) on page 457, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2702263