Margites aspericollis ( Fairmaire, 1887 ), 2025

Vitali, Francesco, 2025, Notes, transfers, new combinations, and new taxa of some African genera of the tribe Cerambycini (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 5620 (1), pp. 20-28 : 21-22

Margites aspericollis ( Fairmaire, 1887) n. comb.

Fig. 6

Pachydissus aspericollis Fairmaire, 1887: 335 or. comb.

= Margites lineatus Gahan, 1898: 41 .

Material examined

Pachydissus aspericollis Fairmaire, 1887: 1♂, 1♀, Moçambique, Maputo, 16–30.XI.1996, G. Curletti leg., CFV .

Remarks. Gahan (1891) created the genus Margites as a subgenus of Pachydissus for those species characterized by “ antennae (♂) longer than the body, with the third and fourth joints more or less thickened, the third scarcely longer than the fourth. Elytra rounded or subtruncate, and unarmed at the apex. Femora without carinae. Prosternum simple, not very strongly arched. Head without a distinct transverse groove underneath. ” Afterwards, ( Gahan, 1898) described Margites lineatus , a species that Adlbauer (2001) recognized as a junior synonym of P. aspericollis .

However, all characters of this species, especially the rounded prosternum ( Fig. 6 ), which instead is posteriorly truncate in Pachydissus , perfectly fit the genus Margites , where the species is herein transferred.

Margites aspericollis ( Fairmaire, 1887) n. comb. becomes the third African species for this genus ( Adlbauer, 2006b; Vitali, 2023).

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. 1. Ptycholaemus striaticollis Boppe, 1912, pronotum. 2. Ptycholaemus longicollis Schwarzer, 1931, pronotum. 3. Ptycholaemus bouakensis (Lepesme & Breuning, 1956), pronotum. 4. Ptycholaemus maculipes Thomson, 1858, pronotum. 5. Ptycholaemus signaticollis (Hope, 1843), pronotum.6. Margites aspericollis (Fairmaire, 1887), mesonotum (size of photographs not proportional to sizes of specimens).