A new species of Chariea Audinet-Serville, 1832, C. birai sp. nov., from Peru is described and illustrated. This is the smallest known species of Prioninae

Monné, Marcela L.

Monné, Miguel A.

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A new species of Chariea Audinet-serville, 1832 (coleopterA, cerAmbycidAe, prioninAe)mArcelA l. monné1,2,3miguel A. monné1,2,4ABSTRACTA new species of Chariea Audinet-Serville, 1832, C. birai sp. nov., from Peru is described and illustrated. This is the smallest known species of Prioninae.Key-Words: Anacolini; Chariea; Small dimensions; Peru.ana (Monné, 2006). Here we describe the male of a new species of Chariea from Peru, and it is, to our knowledge, the smallest known member of Prioninae.MATERIAL AND METHODSAbbreviations cited in the text: USNM, Nation-al Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institu-tion, Washington, D.C., United States.TAXONOMYChariea birai sp. nov. (Figs. 1, 2)Male: Integument dark brown to black with metallic reflections, except antennae orange brownish. Sur-face of the head with less metallic reflection, densely punctate-reticulate. Eyes deeply notched, finely fac-eted; lower lobe more than three times as tall as gena INTRODUCTIONSeveral genera of the tribe Anacolini (Prioninae) have males of very small size (less than 10  mm) as compared to females. Those genera also have the an-tennae uni- or biflabellate. Two of them, Chariea Au-dinet-Serville, 1832 and Flabellomorphus Galileo & Martins, 1990 are distributed in the Amazon Region and they are very scarce in collections. Galileo (1987) pointed out that the differences between Chariea, Anacolus Berthold, 1827 and Rhodocharis Lacordaire, 1868 exist in that the antennae are biflabellate and the abdomen reduced and recurved in Chariea whle in Anacolus and Rhodocharis, the antennae are unif-labellate and the abdomen is not reduced or recurved. Galileo & Martins (1990) reiterated those differences and described C. longispina.The genus Chariea has three species: C. cyanea Audinet-Serville from French Guiana, Brazil (Amazo-nas), Peru and Bolivia (La Paz), C. lepesmei Tippmann, 1956 from French Guiana, and C. longispina Galileo & Martins, 1990 from Brazil (Pará) and French Gui-http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v46i5p79-81Volume 46(5):79‑81, 20151. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Museu Nacional, Departamento de Entomologia. Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.2. CNPq Researcher.3. E-mail: mlmonne2@gmail.com4. E-mail: monne@uol.com.brFIGURES 1‑3: (1, 2) Chariea birai sp. nov., holotype male: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) lateral habitus. (3) Chariea longispina holotype male.Monné, M.L. & Monné, M.A.: A new species of Chariea80below it; upper lobes separated by about one and a half times greatest width of scape. Antennae extend-ing to the middle of prothorax, scape subtriangular in shape; articles of the flagellum biflabellate; articles 3 to 11 with dorsal longitudinal carinae extending by the process of each article of the flagellum.Prothorax with acute lateral projection slightly behind middle; pronotum with oblique ovoid raised prominence each side of the middle. Surface densely alveolate punctate except at the dorsal prominences. Prosternal process projected behind, covering the mesosternum, as large as width of procoxae, densely punctate. Mesosternal process concave in the middle, as broad as width of mesocoxae.Elytra not covering the membranous wings, with parallel sides, apex largely rounded, the distal marginal angles provided with a minute spine. Surface with dense, fine and confluent punctation.Legs very short, femorae and tibiae sublinear. Abdomen very reduced, last urosternite with apical margin rounded.Measurements, in mm, male: Total length (frons to the apex of the elytron), 4.2; prothorax length, 1.2; pro-thorax width at its widest point, 1.8; elytral length, 2.2; humeral width, 2.8.Type material: Holotype male, PERU, Madre de Dios: Tambopata Wildlife Reserve, 30 km SW Puerto Mal-donado, 12°50’ S, 69°20’W, 290 m, 15-31.X.1982, Joseph J. Anderson col. (USNM).Etymology: The specific name is in honor to Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza, “Bira”, our dear friend who recently passed away.Remarks: The new species is distinguished from the other three species in the genus as follows: C.  birai (Figs.  1,  2) differs from C.  cyanea, C.  lepesmei, and C.  longispina by the smaller dimensions and color-ation, in C. longispina (Fig. 3) the prothorax is orange and there are an acute spine in the distal marginal angle of the elytra and in C. cyanea the integument is brown reddish with violet blue reflections.RESUMOUma espécie nova de Chariea Audinet-Serville, 1832, C. birai sp. nov., do Peru é descrita e ilustrada; acredita-mos que seja o menor Prioninae conhecido.Palavras-Chave: Anacolini; Chariea; Pequenas di-mensões; Peru.ACKNOWLEDGMENTWe are grateful to Dr. Steven W. Lingafelter (USNM) for sending undetetermined Cerambycidae from the Smithsonian Institution for our studies.REFERENCESAudinet-Serville, J.G. 1832. Nouvelle classification de la famille des longicornes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (1)1: 118-201.Galileo, M.H.M. 1987. Sistemática das tribos Meroscelisini e Anacolini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae) nas Américas. II. Anacolini. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 31(4): 481-705.Galileo, M.H.M. & Martins, U.R. 1990. Novos táxons de Anacolini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 37(3): 39-52.Monné, M.A. 2006. Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part III. Subfamilies Parandrinae, Prioninae, Anoplodermatinae, Aseminae, Spondylidinae, Lepturinae, Oxypeltinae, and addenda to the Cerambycinae and Lamiinae. Zootaxa, 1212: 1-244.Aceito em 18/08/2015 Impresso em: 23/12/2015Arquivos de Zoologia, 46(5), 2015 81

A new species of Chariea Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)

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A new species of Chariea Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)

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