General form elongate-ovate, robust, small to moderate-sized, 11–17 mm in length. Head with frons elongate, about 1.5 times width of lower eye lobe. Eyes with lower lobes large, oblong. Genae distinctly shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, moderately separated. Antennae distinctly longer than body; scape robust, clavate; antennomere III longest. Pronotum subcylindrical, transverse, sides feebly sinuate; disk with three tubercles; disk with one basal transverse sulcus, and a more distinct oblique sulcus laterally which continues down the side. Scutellum transverse, apex rounded. Elytra with lateral margins slightly sinuate, gradually rounded to apices at apical 1/3; humeri prominent. Legs moderate in length; profemora robust. Meso- and metafemora clavate apically; tibiae slightly expanded apically; metafemora about 1/3 as long as elytra.
The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: genae distinctly shorter than lower lobes, from 1/3 to 1/2 as tall; frons distinctly elongate and narrow, about as wide as width of 1 to 1.5 lower eye lobes; pronotum subcylindrical; elytra about 3.75 times longer than pronotal length.
The genus Touroultia resembles Priscatoides.
South America (Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana)
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The genus Touroultia currently contains three species: T. lordi Nearns and Tavakilian, 2012; T. obscurella (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.); T. swifti Nearns and Tavakilian, 2012.
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Touroultia Nearns and Tavakilian, 2012
subtribe: Onciderina
type species: Touroultia lordi Nearns and Tavakilian, 2012
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., Nearns and Tavakilian (2012a)Nearns and Tavakilian (2012a):
Nearns EH, Tavakilian G-L. 2012a. New Taxa and Combinations in Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Central and South America, with notes on additional taxa. Insecta Mundi. 0231:1–24.
