Pseudosparna aragua Mermudes & Monne, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mermudes, José Ricardo M.
name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pseudosparna
Pseudosparna aragua

description: Pseudosparna aragua Mermudes & Monné, sp. nov.
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Description. Male. Integument dark brown; basal half of antennal segment 4, coxae and basal half of femora, yellowish. Body with gray pubescence predominating. Dark-brown pubescence covers: a vitta on each side of occiput, sides of prothorax, with a longitudinal line on each side of middle of pronotum, an oval dorsal patch on basal ¼ of elytra, epipleurae, an elongated sutural post-median line, with rounded lateral margins, and a dorso-longitudinal elytral line from humeri to apices. Metepisterna covered with dense yellow pubescence.
Antennae exceeding elytral apices by 6 segments.. Prothorax with acute lateral tubercles. Pronotum with sparse punctures on posterior margin. Elytra coarsely punctate on basal two-thirds, the setae restricted to posterior half of lateral margins; elytral apices obliquely truncate, outer angles acutely spinose. Urotergite 5 with apical margin rounded; urosternite 5 semicircularly emarginated at apex.
Female. Urotergite 5 with apical margin rounded; urosternite 5 truncate and spinose at outer angles.
Measurements (mm), male/female. Total length, 6.5–7.0/6.0–7.0; prothorax length, 1.2–1.3/1.0–1.2; prothorax width, 1.5–1.7/1.5–1.7; elytral length, 5.0–5,6/4.8–5.3; humeral width, 1.7–1.8/1.6–1.7.
Etymology. The species epithet refers to a State of Venezuela; proposed as a noun in apposition.
Type material. Holotype. Female, VENEZUELA, Aragua: Portachuelo (Rancho Grande, 1100 m), 4.VI.1980 (J. A. Clavijo leg.). (FAUV). Paratypes. VENEZUELA, Aragua: Maracay (Rancho Grande, 1100 m), 1 male, 30.VI.1952 (F. Fernandez Y. leg.) (FAUV); same locality, 1 male, 7.VI.1967 (F. Fernandez Y. & E. Osuna leg.) (MNRJ); 1 female, 26.VI.1968 (J. Salcedo leg.) (FAUV); 1 male, 1.I.1970, (F. Fernandez Y. leg) (FAUV); 1 female, 26.V.1970 (F. Fernandez Y. leg.) (MNRJ); 1 male, 22.23. II.1971 (H. & A. Howden leg.) (CMNC); 1 female, 26.27. II. 1971 (H. & A. Howden leg.) (MNRJ); 1 female, 26.V.1971 (F. Fernandez Y. leg.) (FAUV); 1 female, 17.V.1973 (J. Salcedo & J. A. Clavijo leg.) (MNRJ); 1 female, 28.VIII.1973 (J. L. Garcia & J. A. Clavijo leg.) (FAUV); 1 female, 9.V.1978 (A. Chacon leg.) (FAUV); 1 female, 4.VIII.1982 (A. Chacon leg.) (FAUV). 1 male, 1 female, 13.VIII.1988 (C. W. & L. O’Brien & Wibmer leg.) (ACMT). Carabobo: Altamira, 1 female, 4.I.1968 (J. & B. Bechyné leg.) (MNRJ). Canoabo, 1 male, 27.XI.1947 (F. Fernandez Y. leg.) (FAUV). Rio Borburata, 1 female, 17-24.VI.1971 (F. Fernandez Y. & J. Salcedo leg.) (MNRJ). San Esteban (Los Quiguas, 250 m), 1 male, 20.XII.1965 (J. R. Pelaez leg.) (FAUV). Falcón: Yaracal, 2 females, II.1984 (V. Kozeny leg.) (FAUV).
description: Published as part of Mermudes, José Ricardo M. & Monné, Miguel A., 2009, Pseudosparna, a new Neotropical genus of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), with description of three new species, pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 2056 on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274783