Synopsis of Zikanita Lane (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

Abstract

Lane (1943) proposed the genus Zikanita for Zikanita perpulchra Lane, 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, considering it close to Cosmotomidius Melzer, 1931. Marinoni & Martins (1978) considered Acanthoderes (Trichacanthoderes) Tippmann, 1960 a synonym of Zikanita, and transferred the two species, Z. biocellata (Tippmann, 1960) and Z. argenteofasciata (Tippman, 1960), both described from Peru.

New Species of Cerambycinae and Lamiinae (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) from Mexico

“…Distribution: This is the first North American record of Zikanita, which had previously been recorded only in South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru: Machado andMonne, 2011, Nascimento et al, 2019).…”

“…Zikanita includes five South American species collectively recorded from Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia (Tavakilian andChevillotte, 2019, Nascimento et al, 2019). The genus was reviewed by Machado and Monne (2011), who provided additional diagnostic characters for Zikanita and a key to the four species known at that time. Recently, Nascimento et al, 2019, described another species and detailed the differences between this genus and Cosmotomidius Melzer, 1931.…”