Elongate-ovate, robust, moderate-sized, about 20 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown or black with whitish, ferrugineous, black, and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons elongate, narrow, less than the width of one lower eye lobe. Eyes with lower lobes large, ovate-oblong. Genae subquadrate to transverse, distinctly shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, moderately to narrowly separated; tubercles not armed at apex or armed with a short, blunt horn. Antennae distinctly shorter than overall body length, or as much as 1 2/3 times as long; scape clavate, longer than antennomere IV; antennomere III sinuate, about as long or longer than scape and longer than antennomere IV. Pronotum transverse, strongly conical, wider at base, without lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides 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 punctation, surface granulate-punctate; punctures distinctly large. Procoxae with small acute projection, an obtuse tubercle, or with distinct, curved hook. 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: large eyes, narrowly separated; distinctly sinuate antennomere III; strongly conical pronotum, without lateral tubercles; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri; and distinctly large punctation at basal 1/2 of elytra.
South America (Brazil, Colombia, Peru)
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The genus Neohylus currently contains two species: N. alexandrei Martins and Galileo, 2010; N. dubius (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.).
More species images are available in the Gallery.
Neohylus Monné, 2005Monné, 2005:
Monné MA. 2005. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Zootaxa. 1023:1–759.
subtribe: Onciderina
type species: Hylus dubius 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.
generic synonymies: Hylus 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., preoccupied by Hylus Van Dyke, 1943 [Coleoptera: Eucnemidae]
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 and Galileo (2010)Martins and Galileo (2010):
Martins UR, Galileo MHM. 2010. Novos táxons em Onciderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 54(1):66–71., Monné (2005)Monné (2005):
Monné MA. 2005. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Zootaxa. 1023:1–759.
