Elongate-oblong, small-sized, ranging from about 9–11 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown with whitish, ferrugineous, and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons elongate, about as wide as width of nearly two lower eye lobes. Eyes with lower lobes large, oblong. Genae subquadrate to elongate, distinctly shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, moderately separated; tubercles armed at apex with a small projection. Antennae about as long as overall body length, or as much as 1 1/3 times as long; scape clavate, about as long as antennomere IV; antennomere III sinuate, longer than scape and antennomere IV. Pronotum transverse, roughly cylindrical, without lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides roughly parallel; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra generally uniform in coloration or speckled, or with distinct transverse lines; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri. Basal 1/3 of elytra with dense punctation, surface coarsely punctate to granulate-punctate. Procoxae without projection or with small acute projection or an obtuse tubercle. 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: eyes large, widely separated; roughly cylindrical pronotum, without lateral tubercles; and elytra with sides roughly parallel.
Strongly resembles Alexera and Venustus; superficially resembles Furona, Plerodia, and Tulcoides.
South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru)
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The genus Neolampedusa currently contains two species: N. lateralis (Thomson, 1868Thomson, 1868:
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92.); N. obliquator (Fabricius, 1801Fabricius, 1801:
Fabricius JC. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Kiliae. 2:1–687.).
More species images are available in the Gallery.
Neolampedusa 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: Lamia obliquator Fabricius, 1802
generic synonymies: Lampedusa 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 Lampedusa Boettger, 1877 [Mollusca]
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., Fabricius (1801)Fabricius (1801):
Fabricius JC. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Kiliae. 2:1–687., Monné (2005)Monné (2005):
Monné MA. 2005. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Zootaxa. 1023:1–759., Thomson (1868)Thomson (1868):
Thomson J. 1868. Révision du groupe des oncidérites (Lamites, cérambycides, coléoptères). Physis Recueil d'Histoire Naturelle. 2(5):41–92.
