Unxiini, uma nova tribo de Cerambycinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

First record of the longhorn beetle Cerambyx welensii Küster, 1845 in North Macedonia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

“…Longhorn beetles constitute one of the most numerous groups of insects, with more than 35-36,000 species and more than 4000 genera in 8-9 subfamilies (Bouchard et al 2011, Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2021, Nie et al 2021. The subfamily Cerambycinae, perhaps the most hyperdiverse and evolved, constitutes a monophyletic group comprising 11-12,000 species extremely variable in their morphology and behaviour (Napp 1994;Hanks 1999;Rossa & Goczal 2021). Within the Cerambycinae, the type genus Cerambyx Linnaeus, 1758, includes 13 species distributed in the western Palearctic realm, of which seven are present in Europe (Bense 1995;Danilevsky 2021;Fauna Europaea 2021).…”

Cladistic analysis and biogeography of Aerenicini Lacordaire, 1872 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)

“…Molecular and biogeographic studies indicate that Prioninae originated in Gondwana and was the first lineage to diversify, while Lamiinae, the latter to diverge, would have arisen in Laurasia and migrated to the other regions later (Svacha & Lawrence, 2014). The subfamily Lamiinae (Flat-Faced Longhorns) is monophyletic, corroborated by morphological and molecular data (Liu et al 2018;Napp, 1994;Haddad et al, 2018;Souza et al, 2021;Ashman et al, 2022). However, its relationship with other subfamilies is controversial (Svacha & Lawrence, 2014).…”

“…However, Lawrence et al (2011) mention that Cerambycidae composes a clade (Cerambycoidea) together with Disteniidae, Oxypeltidae and Vesperidae. Napp (1994), proposed for the first time a cladistic hypothesis of evolutionary relationship between subfamilies. In their study, 66 morphological characters of adults and 62 of larvae were analyzed and based on the results, Philinae as subfamily of Cerambycidae and Oxypeltidae and Disteniidae hitherto considered subfamilies, were elevated to families.…”

“…Haddad & McKenna, 2016;Haddad et al, 2018;Nie et al, 2021) According to many studies, Prioninae and Parandrinae composing a clade, is the group with more plesiomorphic characters (e.g. Craighead, 1923;Saalas, 1936;Crowson, 1955;Svacha & Danilevsky, 1987;Napp, 1994;Biffi & Fuhrmann, 2013;Svacha & Lawrence, 2014;Nearns, 2013;Haddad et al, 2017;Nie et al, 2021). Some of these studies indicate that Prioninae have no synapomorphies (paraphyletic) and together with Parandrinae, compose a clade.…”