March 2026: Since the original publication of this tool, seven additional species of Hesychotypa Thomson, 1868Thomson, 1868:
Thomson, J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle, 2(5): 41–92. were described (Audureau 2012Audureau 2012:
Audureau, A. 2012. Notes sur les Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Onciderini). Les Cahiers Magellanes, NS, 9: 61-68., Audureau 2014Audureau 2014:
Audureau A. 2014. Un nouvel Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Lambillionea. 113(3):195-196., Nearns and Nascimento 2019Nearns and Nascimento 2019:
Nearns EH, Nascimento FEL. 2019. A new genus and seven new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Central and South America. Insecta Mundi. 0688:1-16., Pérez-Flores and Nearns 2021Pérez-Flores and Nearns 2021:
Pérez-Flores O, Nearns EH. 2021. Two new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Mexico and Honduras. Zootaxa. 5026(1):145-150., Vlasák et al. 2025Vlasák et al. 2025:
Vlasák J, Nearns EH, Santos-Silva A. 2025. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Ecuador: a new genus and three new species. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 65:1-13.). These species are added to "Included Species". Other sections in this fact sheet have not been edited to account for these new species.
Elongate-oblong, small to large-sized, ranging from about 8–21 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown or ferrugineous with whitish, ferrugineous, brown, and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons subquadrate to elongate, about as wide as width of two to 3 1/2 lower eye lobes. Eyes with lower lobes ovate-oblong. Genae subquadrate to elongate, variable in size, from distinctly shorter to distinctly taller than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, widely separated; tubercles armed at apex with a small projection (females), or with a short to moderately long, blunt or acute horn (some males), or with a large, blunt process (some males). Antennae about as long as overall body length (females), or as much as twice as long (some males); scape clavate, shorter than antennomere IV; antennomere III curved or sinuate, longer than scape and antennomere IV; antennomere XI shorter than X (females) or longer than X (males). Pronotum transverse, roughly cylindrical to conical, wider at base, with or without lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides roughly parallel to slightly attenuate; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra generally uniform in coloration or speckled, or with distinct maculae; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri. Basal 1/3 of elytra with moderate to dense punctation, surface finely punctate, coarsely punctate or granulate-punctate. Procoxae without projection (females) or with an obtuse tubercle (males). Mesosternal process with apex feebly to deeply emarginate. Metafemora moderate to short in length, about 1/3–1/4 as long as elytra.
The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: widely separated antennal tubercles, armed at apex in both sexes; strongly transverse pronotum, roughly cylindrical to slightly conical; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri; and elytra with sides roughly parallel to slightly attenuate.
Superficially resembles Ephiales, Eupalessa, and Lochmaeocles.
Central America (Belize, Honduras and Guatemala to Panama); South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru)
Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda mimosifolia); Fabaceae (Acacia decurrens, Inga huberi, Mimosa scabrella); Lecythidaceae (Chytroma poiteaui, Couratari stellata, Gustavia hexapetala)
Unknown
The genus Hesychotypa currently contains 29 species: H. ableptema Martins and Galileo, 1990Martins and Galileo, 1990:
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 1990. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae): sinonimias, novos taxons, chaves e notas. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 37(4):53–95.; H. aeropa 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.; H. albofasciata Pérez-Flores and Nearns, 2021Pérez-Flores and Nearns, 2021:
Pérez-Flores O, Nearns EH. 2021. Two new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Mexico and Honduras. Zootaxa. 5026(1):145–150.; H. antonkozlovi Nearns and Nascimento, 2019Nearns and Nascimento, 2019:
Nearns EH, Nascimento FEL. 2019. A new genus and seven new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Central and South America. Insecta Mundi. 0688:1–16.; H. aotinga Martins and Galileo, 2008Martins and Galileo, 2008:
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2008. Novas especies de Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) da Bolivia. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48(4):27–31.; H. avrillasi Audureau, 2014Audureau, 2014:
Audureau A. 2014. Un nouvel Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Lambillionea. 113(3):195–196.; H. balia Martins and Galileo, 2009; H. bimaculata 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.; H. cedestes illon and Dillon, 1945; H. colombiana Martins and Galileo, 1990Martins and Galileo, 1990:
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 1990. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae): sinonimias, novos taxons, chaves e notas. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 37(4):53–95.; H. crocea 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.; H. danilevskyi Nearns and Nascimento, 2019Nearns and Nascimento, 2019:
Nearns EH, Nascimento FEL. 2019. A new genus and seven new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Central and South America. Insecta Mundi. 0688:1–16.; H. dola 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.; H. fernandezi Martins and Galileo, 1999; H. heraldica (Bates, 1872); H. jaspidea (Bates, 1865Bates, 1865:
Bates HW. 1865. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(15):213–225, 382–394; 3(16):101–113, 167–182, 308–314.); H. lirissa 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.; H. liturata (Bates, 1865Bates, 1865:
Bates HW. 1865. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(15):213–225, 382–394; 3(16):101–113, 167–182, 308–314.); H. maculosa (Bates, 1865Bates, 1865:
Bates HW. 1865. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(15):213–225, 382–394; 3(16):101–113, 167–182, 308–314.); H. magnifica Martins and Galileo, 2007Martins and Galileo, 2007:
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2007. Notas e novas especies de Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 47(9):127–135.; H. maraba Martins and Galileo, 2007Martins and Galileo, 2007:
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2007. Notas e novas especies de Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 47(9):127–135.; H. mendax Vlasák, Nearns and Santos-Silva, 2025; H. miniata Thomson, 1868Thomson, 1868:
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92.; H. morvanae Audureau, 2012Audureau, 2012:
Audureau A. 2012. Notes sur les Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Onciderini). Les Cahiers Magellanes, NS. 9:61–68.; H. nyphonoides (Pascoe, 1859Pascoe, 1859:
Pascoe FP. 1859. On new genera and species of longicorn Coleoptera. Part IV. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5(2):12–69.); H. punctata Martins, 1979Martins, 1979:
Martins UR. 1979. Descricoes e notas sobre Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 23(3):147–156.; H. subfasciata 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.; H. turbida (Bates, 1880); H. turbida (Bates, 1880); H. viator Vlasák, Nearns and Santos-Silva, 2025.
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Hesychotypa Thomson, 1868Thomson, 1868:
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92.
subtribe: Onciderina
type species: Hesychotypa miniata Thomson, 1868Thomson, 1868:
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92.
generic synonymies: Ubytyra Martins and Galileo, 2012
Audureau 2012Audureau 2012:
Audureau A. 2012. Notes sur les Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Onciderini). Les Cahiers Magellanes, NS. 9:61–68., Audureau 2014Audureau 2014:
Audureau A. 2014. Un nouvel Onciderini du Pérou (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Lambillionea. 113(3):195–196., Bates (1865)Bates (1865):
Bates HW. 1865. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(15):213–225, 382–394; 3(16):101–113, 167–182, 308–314., Bates (1880–1886), 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., Martins (1979)Martins (1979):
Martins UR. 1979. Descricoes e notas sobre Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 23(3):147–156., Martins and Galileo (1990)Martins and Galileo (1990):
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 1990. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae): sinonimias, novos taxons, chaves e notas. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 37(4):53–95., Martins and Galileo (2007)Martins and Galileo (2007):
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2007. Notas e novas especies de Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 47(9):127–135., Martins and Galileo (2008)Martins and Galileo (2008):
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2008. Novas especies de Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) da Bolivia. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48(4):27–31., Martins and Galileo (2009a)Martins and Galileo (2009a):
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2009a. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae): notas, descricoes, novas combinacoes e chave para grupo de especies de Trachysomus. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 49(13):151–161., Monné (2005)Monné (2005):
Monné MA. 2005. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Zootaxa. 1023:1–759., Nearns and Nascimento 2019Nearns and Nascimento 2019:
Nearns EH, Nascimento FEL. 2019. A new genus and seven new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Central and South America. Insecta Mundi. 0688:1–16., Pascoe (1859)Pascoe (1859):
Pascoe FP. 1859. On new genera and species of longicorn Coleoptera. Part IV. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5(2):12–69., Pérez-Flores and Nearns 2021Pérez-Flores and Nearns 2021:
Pérez-Flores O, Nearns EH. 2021. Two new species of Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Mexico and Honduras. Zootaxa. 5026(1):145–150., Thomson (1868)Thomson (1868):
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92., Vlasák et al. 2025Vlasák et al. 2025:
Vlasák J, Nearns EH, Santos-Silva A. 2025. Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Ecuador: a new genus and three new species. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 65:1-13., Wappes et al. (2009)Wappes et al. (2009):
Wappes JE, Ledezma Arias J, Nearns EH. 2009. List of Coleoptera holotypes in Museo de Historia Natural, Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma "Gabriel Rene Moreno," Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Insecta Mundi. 081:1–8.
