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

description: Aneflomorpha delongi (Champlain and Knull)
(Fig. 1f, 5f, 7f, 8e, 9e, 10f)
Elaphidion delongi Champlain and Knull 1922: 147.
Diagnosis. Length 14–17 mm, pronotum averages 1.15 times longer than wide, elytra together average 3.89 times longer than wide (Fig. 1f). Integument rufous. Antennae not carinate (Fig. 9e). Spine of third antennomere about twice as long as second antennomere in most specimens, projecting away from antennal plane by nearly 45 degrees, blunt at apex (Fig. 9e). Pronotum with moderate punctures unobscured by pubescence; with elongate impunctate, median callus (Fig. 5f). Elytral apices bidentate or with dentiform suture and short, broad, apicolateral spine (Fig. 8e). Elytral pubescence consisting only of translucent, erect setae, without recumbent setae (Fig. 7f). Procoxal cavities open by slightly less than the width of the moderately expanded prosternal process (Fig. 10f). Protibia slender, gradually widening apically with the dorsal margin straight and non-carinate (as in Fig. 11h).
Discussion. This is one of only two species of Aneflomorpha known from the eastern United States (Lingafelter 2007; Bezark 2022), the other being A. subpubescens. Only two other species, A. subpubescens (Fig. 7t) and A. linsleyae (Fig. 7j), lack short, recumbent elytral pubescence. Aneflomorpha subpubescens is easily distinguished by its relatively short, acute spine on antennomere three (Fig. 9q). The antennae are distinctly carinate and the blunt spine of antennomere three is no more than one-third the length of the fourth antennomere in A. linsleyae (Fig. 9i). The antennae lack carinae, and the spine of the third antennomere is nearly half the length of the fourth antennomere in A. delongi (Fig. 9e). Further distinguishing these two species is the protibia which is laterally flattened and carinate dorsally in A. linsleyae (Fig. 11c), but neither flattened nor carinate in A. delongi.
Distribution and biology. This species is known only from Florida and Georgia, usually below 100 meters (Lingafelter 2007). Morris (2002) reared one specimen from Quercus laevis Walter in Ocala National Forest, Florida. Other specimens have been collected at lights there and in similar scrub oak habitat in Georgia from April through September (pers. obs.; Morris 2002; Lingafelter 2007). Vlasak and Vlasakova (2021) reared many specimens from small branches of several new hosts of Quercus including Q. chapmanii Sarg., Q. geminata, Q. inopina Ashe, and Q. myrtifolia in Polk County, Florida.
Material examined. USA: Florida: Miami, 3 April 1921, D. M. De Long, J. N. Knull Collection (holotype, FMNH); Marion Co., Ocala National Forest, USFS Rd 97, 2.5 miles N. Hwy 40, 29 °12 ′34″N, 81°47′02″ W, 100′, 26–27 July 2002, mv/uv lights, S. W. Lingafelter (SWLC); Marion Co., Ocala National Forest, 21–22 July 2000, Green / Morris (2, JAGC); Marion Co., 10 mi. NE Ocklawaha, Ocala N. F., 4 August 2018, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp (KESC); Highlands Co., Archbold Biol. Sta., 21 August 1978, William Rosenberg (USNM); Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station, 23 September 1977, L. L. Lampert, Jr. (TAMU); Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station, 9 September 1983, R. M. Brattain (TAMU); Polk Co., 674 Pfundstein Rd., Tiger Creek Preserve, 26 August 2016, R. Morris, mv/uv light (FWSC). Georgia: Emanuel Co., Halls Bridge Road, Ohoopee Dunes, 20 June 2014, at lights, Kyle E. Schnepp (KESC); Emanuel Co., 10 mi. SW Swainsboro, Ohoopee Dunes, 6 June 2015, at light, Kyle E. Schnepp (KESC); Long Co., 10 mi. WNW Ludowici, 18 June 2016, 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 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7399054