March 2026: Cipriscola Dillon and Dillon, 1945Dillon and Dillon, 1945:
Dillon, L.S. and E.S. Dillon. 1945. The tribe Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part I. Reading, Scientific Publications, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Number 5. 186 pp. is no longer a valid genus; it was synonymized with Hypsioma Audinet-Serville, 1835Audinet-Serville, 1835:
Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1835. Nouvelle classification de la famille des longicornes (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (1)4: 5–100. by Souza et al. (2025)Souza et al. (2025):
Souza DS, French RLK, Silva Jr. JO, Nearns EH, Marinoni L, Swift IP, Miller KB, Sperling FAH, Monné M. 2025. Cutting the sap: Firat molecular phylogeny of twig-girdler longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini) suggests shifts in host plant attack behaviours contributed to morphological evolution. Systematic Entomology. 502):369-389.
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Elongate-ovate, small to moderate-sized, ranging from about 9–19 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown speckled with whitish pubescence. Head with frons elongate, about as wide as width of 1 1/2 to two lower eye lobes; frons surface roughly sculptured or not. Eyes with lower lobes ovate-oblong. Genae elongate, about as tall or shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, moderately separated; tubercles armed at apex with short, blunt horn. Antennae about as long (females) or 1 1/3 times as long (males) as overall body length; scape clavate, about as long or longer than antennomere IV; antennomere III strongly sinuate, longer than scape and antennomere IV; antennae annulate. Pronotum transverse, roughly conical, wider at base, without lateral tubercles. Prothorax with sides whitish. Elytra with sides roughly parallel to slightly attenuate; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra with large whitish maculae at humeri and near middle; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri. Basal 1/3 of elytra sparse to dense punctation, surface granulate-punctate. Procoxae without projection (females) or with small acute projection (males). Mesosternal process with apex deeply emarginate. Metafemora moderate in length, about 1/3 as long as elytra.
The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: roughly conical pronotum without lateral tubercles; prothorax with sides whitish; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri; and elytra with large whitish maculae at humeri and near middle.
South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru)
Fabaceae (Delonix regia, Acacia decurrens, A. polyphylla, Enterolobium contortisiliquum); Sapindaceae (Litchi chinensis)
Unknown
The genus Cipriscola currently contains one species: C. fasciata (Thomson, 1860Thomson, 1860:
Thomson J. 1860. Essai d'une classification de la famille des cérambycides et materiaux pour servir a une monographie de cette famille. Paris.).
Specimens of this genus have been collected by beating vegetation and log picking (E.H. Nearns, pers. observation).
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., Souza et al. (2024)Souza et al. (2024):
Souza DS, French RLK, Silva Jr. JO, Nearns EH, Marinoni L, Swift IP, Miller KB, Sperling FAH, Monné M. 2024. Cutting the sap: First molecular phylogeny of twig-girdler longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini) suggests shifts in host plant attack behaviours contributed to morphological evolution. Systematic Entomology. 502:369–389., Thomson (1860)Thomson (1860):
Thomson J. 1860. Essai d'une classification de la famille des cérambycides et materiaux pour servir a une monographie de cette famille. Paris.
