On Atrypanius cretiger (White, 1855) and Atrypanius punctatellus (Bates, 1872) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)

Authors

Antonio Santos-Silva, Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São PauloFollow
Juan Pablo Botero, Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São PauloFollow

ORCID IDs

Antonio Santos-Silva https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7128-1418

Juan Pablo Botero http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-7987

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Article

Date of this Version

4-30-2021

Citation

Santos-Silva A, Botero JP. 2021. On Atrypanius cretiger (White, 1855) and Atrypanius punctatellus (Bates, 1872) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini). Insecta Mundi 0866: 1–6.

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Abstract

Atrypanius punctatellus (Bates, 1872) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini) is for­mally proposed as a junior synonym of A. cretiger (White, 1855). Atrypanius cretiger is redescribed and the type locality is confirmed as Colombia.

Despite the large amount of work on Acanthocinini published in the past fifty years, the tribe still has many problems. This is particularly true with regard to the limits and definition of the genera. Due to the large num­ber of species in this tribe, especially in the Neotropical region (146 genera and 1,138 species – Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2020; Roguet 2021), it is difficult to perceive eventual synonyms, which are often described in differ­ent genera.

Several species of the tribe seem to have a very wide geographical distribution, occurring in quite different biomes. For example, it is not rare to find species described from the Amazonian region in areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest or in areas of northeastern Brazil where Caatinga, a dry forest, is predominant.

During the process of identification of specimens sent by several institutions and private collections, we found a synonymy in Atrypanius Bates, 1864, which, although already reported, was never formally established and remains partially forgotten in the current checklists and catalogs.