Apeba Martins & Galileo 1991
- Dataset
- Two new species of Lamiinae, synonymies in Hemilophini, and corrections on the concept of four genera with transfers of three species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- genus
- Apeba
description
Martins & Galileo (1991 a) divided Lycidola into six genera, with five of them (Acabanga, Tetamauara, Icupima, Iarucanga and Apeba), newly described. Lycidola and Apeba were separated in the alternative of couplets “ 5 ” (translated): “ Each elytron with 4 carinae … Lycidola / Each elytron with 2 carinae … .. Apeba. ” They included L. palliata (type species), L. batesi, L. beltii, L. expansa, L. felix, L. flavofasciata, and L. simulatrix in Lycidola, and also moving L. togata (type species), L. antiqua Waterhouse, 1880 (transferred from Lycaneptia Thomson, 1868), L. isabellina, and L. barauna to Apeba. Latter, Galileo & Martins (2006) described Lycidola popeba, and Martins & Galileo (2012) described L. affinis. According to Martins & Galileo (1991 a), the prosternal process in Lycidola is as wide as a procoxa, and in Apeba 1 / 3 the width of a procoxa. Evidently, they were talking about the central area of the prosternal process. However, the prosternal process in Lycidola, although usually wider than in Apeba, is never as wide as a procoxa (Figs 2, 4, 6, 8), and sometimes is slightly wider (Fig. 4) than in Apeba (Figs 10, 12, 14). Thus, this feature cannot be used as a differential character. We propose to redefine Lycidola as having four carinae on each elytron (Figs 1, 3, 5 7), with the second and third (from suture to outer side) fused at apical third (Y-shaped). Apeba is then comprised of species with just two or three elytral carinae (Figs 9, 11, 13) and none fused.
Name
- Homonyms
- Apeba
- Apeba Martins & Galileo 1991
- Apeba