Rediscovery and Redescription of the Remarkable Phoenicus sanguinipennis Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Trachyderini) from the Dominican Republic

Authors

Steven Lingafelter, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.
Eugenio Nearns, Department of Entomology and Nematology University of Florida P.O. Box 110620 Gainesville, FL

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 60(3):199–206. 2006.

Abstract

Phoenicus sanguinipennis was described by Lacordaire in 1869 based on one male specimen of unknown origin. We rediscovered this species 135 years later in the Punta Cana region in La Altagracia Province of eastern Dominican Republic (18°30.477’N, 68°22.499’W). Twenty-seven specimens were collected at lights and on dead Maclura tinctoria (Linnaeus) D. Don ex Steudel (Moraceae). We provide a thorough description of the species and the previously unknown female, and a discussion of the previous and current knowledge of the species.