Neoptychodes trilineatus ( Linnaeus, 1771 )

Vlasak, Josef & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2025, The surprisingly little-known fauna of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Ecuador: description of one new genus and eight new species of Acanthocinini (Lamiinae) and new records in Cerambycinae and Lamiinae, Zootaxa 5653 (2), pp. 151-195 : 191-192

Neoptychodes trilineatus ( Linnaeus, 1771)

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Cerambyx trilineatus Linnaeus, 1771: 532 .

Saperda vittata Fabricius, 1776: 231 .

Ptychodes insularis Fairmaire, 1850: 61 .

Ptychodes fairmairei Thomson, 1865: 556 .

Ptychodes abbreviatus Casey, 1893: 593 .

Remarks. Cerambyx trilineatus was described from Jamaica; Saperda vittata from “ India ”; Ptychodes insularis and Ptychodes insularis from “Taïti / “Tahiti” and Ptychodes abbreviatus from the U.S.A. (Arizona). Monné (2024b) and Tavakilian & Chevillotte (2024) reported the holotype of Cerambyx trilineatus as having an unknown depository institution. However, apparently, Linnaeus (1771) was just naming the species described by Drury (1770). Drury (1773) reported: “Triliniatus [sic], Linn. Mant. p. 532”. The specimens from Drury’s collection are now distributed in many institutions. Currently, Neoptychodes trilineatus is known from the United States of America (Arizona, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa, Mississippi, and Texas), Mexico (Baja California, Colima, Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Guerrero, Puebla, San Luís Potosí, Mexico, Morelos, Tabasco, Yucatán, Sonora, Oaxaca, and Durango), Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Puerto Rico, and Greater Antilles ( Monné 2024b; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2024). Probably, the record from Tahiti is questionable. Redtenbacher (1868) reported it from the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro and Chenu (1870) from Brazil (no further details).

Material examined. ECUADOR (new country record), Loja: Macara , 700 m, 20–24 Feb 2024, J. Vlasak leg. ( JVCO) .

Figures

FIGURES 70–78. Lamiinae spp., dorsal habitus. 70) Oreodera verrucosa Bates, 1872. 71) Batesbeltia pantherina Lane, 1964. 72) Colobothea bilineata Bates, 1865. 73) Cotyadesmus iuba (Galileo & Martins, 2003). 74) Pseudotacocha magnifica Martins & Galileo, 2012. 75) Neoptychodes trilineatus (Linnaeus, 1771). 76) Ischiocentra stockwelli Giesberti, 1984. 77) Lochmaeocles tessellatus tessellatus (Thomson, 1868). 78) Oncideres digna Bates, 1865.