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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 3: 24 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.3.5
Page range: 395–402
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Derobrachus Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae) from a cloud forest in Honduras

Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation npo (BINCO), Walmersumstraat 44, 3380 Glabbeek, Belgium Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation npo (BINCO), Walmersumstraat 44, 3380 Glabbeek, Belgium 4Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Operation Wallacea, Wallace House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, PE23 4EX, UK.
Coleoptera Central America key longhorned beetle taxonomy Cusuco National Park

Abstract

A yearly biodiversity monitoring of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae) in a Honduran cloud forest revealed a new species of prionine. Derobrachus cusucoensis sp. nov. is a locally relatively common species described from Cusuco National Park in Honduras, becoming the ninth species of this genus recorded for the country. Similar both in morphology and a montane habitat to D. dohrni, there is a possibility that this new species represents a disconnected population from the latter that evolved separately. An adapted insert for an existing identification key to all Derobrachus species is included.

 

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