Elongate-oblong, small to moderate-sized, ranging from about 11–14 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown with pale gray and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons elongate, slightly wider below eyes, about as wide as width of two lower eye lobes. Eyes with lower lobes small, ovate. Genae elongate, distinctly taller than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, moderately separated; tubercles not armed at apex. Antennae slightly longer (females) to 1 1/2 times (males) as long as overall body length; scape clavate, about as long or shorter than antennomere IV; antennomere III feebly sinuate, longer than scape and IV; antennae annulate. Pronotum transverse, strongly conical, wider at base, without lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides nearly straight, strongly attenuate to apex; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra generally uniform in coloration to lightly speckled; base of elytra with two large, prominent tubercles at humeri; each tubercle strongly projecting, conical and obtuse. Basal 1/3 of elytra with moderate to dense punctation, surface coarsely punctate. Procoxae without projection. Mesosternal process with apex deeply emarginate. Metafemora moderate in length, about 1/2–1/3 as long as elytra.
The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: distinctly small eyes; strongly conical pronotum; humeri with two large, prominent tubercles; and strongly attenuate elytra.
Strongly resembles Cnemosioma, some species of Hypsioma, and Typhlocerus.
South America (Argentina, Brazil)
Poaceae (Guadua trinii [bamboo])
Unknown
The genus Agaritha currently contains one species: A. iolaia Dillon and Dillon, 1945Dillon and Dillon, 1945:
Dillon LS, Dillon ES. 1945. The tribe Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part I. Reading, Scientific Publications, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Number 5. 186 pp..
Agaritha Dillon and Dillon, 1945Dillon and Dillon, 1945:
Dillon LS, Dillon ES. 1945. The tribe Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part I. Reading, Scientific Publications, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Number 5. 186 pp.
subtribe: Onciderina
type species: Agaritha iolaia Dillon and Dillon, 1945Dillon and Dillon, 1945:
Dillon LS, Dillon ES. 1945. The tribe Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part I. Reading, Scientific Publications, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Number 5. 186 pp.
Bezark and Monné (2013)Bezark and Monné (2013):
Bezark LG, Monné MA. 2013. Checklist of the Oxypeltidae, Vesperidae, Disteniidae and Cerambycidae, (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere., Dillon and Dillon (1945)Dillon and Dillon (1945):
Dillon LS, Dillon ES. 1945. The tribe Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part I. Reading, Scientific Publications, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Number 5. 186 pp., Monné (2005)Monné (2005):
Monné MA. 2005. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Zootaxa. 1023:1–759.
