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Issue: Vol. 5590 No. 3: 24 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.3.7
Page range: 422-432
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of Xenocona Gilmour, 1960 (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) with biogeographical notes

Laboratório de Invertebrados - LABIN; Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais - ICEN; Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis; Rondonópolis; Mato Grosso; Brazil
Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Ciencias - Instituto de Ciencias Naturales - Cra 30 45-02, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, 111321 - Colombia
Línea de Investigación Faunística & Conservación con Énfasis en los Artrópodos; Universidad Pedagógica Nacional; Bogotá; Colombia
Laboratório de Biodiversidade; Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana – Unila; Foz do Iguaçu; Paraná; Brazil
Coleoptera Andes mountain range longhorn beetle morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species are described for the genus Xenocona Gilmour, 1960 (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini): Xenocona plagiata sp. nov. from Colombia and X. queros sp. nov. from Peru. Additionally, photographs and distribution maps are provided. The distribution pattern of species was analyzed in relation to the following environmental variables: humidity (%); average annual temperature (°F); altitude (masl); and average annual precipitation. In general, we observed that the temperature and altitude variables are intrinsically related to the distribution. We also observed that the distribution follows that of conifers trees, which are possibly the host plants of Xenocona species.

 

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