Amblycerus tachigaliae Kingsolver, 1976

Amblycerus tachigaliae Kingsolver, 1976

Fig. 10 A – H View Figure 10 , Table 1 View Table 1

Amblycerus tachigaliae Kingsolver, 1976: 150–151 (detailed original description, type locality: Panama); Kingsolver 1980: 238–239 (mentioned); Johnson and Kingsolver 1981: 410 (checklist); Kitajima and Augspurger 1989: 1105 (distribution, host association, ecology); Udayagiri and Wadhi 1989: 15 (catalog); Romero-Nápoles et al. 2021: 210 (catalog).

Type material.

Holotype • Deposited in USNM, male, with labels: Panama: Barro Colorado I. ; feb. 1975; Robin Foster, coll., reared from seeds of Tachigali versicolor Standley & Williams. Paratypes • ( n = 2), two same locality, one female; 24 - II- 1975; T. L. Erwin coll., at light in USNM, one male; 10 - III- 1961; J. M. Campbell coll., at light, in CNC (Canadian National Collection, Ottawa). ( Kingsolver 1976) .

This species was recognized based on the original detailed description presented by Kingsolver (1976) where the male genitalia is well illustrated. New record. • ( n = 2) Panama: Colón, Santa Rita Ridge 10–11 June 1977, coll. Howden, H. and Howden • ( n = 3) Manaus , Brazil \ 1978 [white label, handwritten]; ♀; collected by \ M. A. S. Serrano [white label, first line printed in black, second handwritten]; Amblycerus tachigaliae \ Kingsolver \ Det. J. Romero N. 91 ’ (white label, printed in black, first line bold letters); TAMU -ENTO X 0102475 ( TAMU) [just one with a female label]. As discussed previously, this should be considered provisional and should be confirmed based on the characters presented in the key .

Diagnosis.

Amblycerus tachigaliae has a number of sclerites in the internal sac of male genitalia that distinguish it from the other species of the group sclerolobii (Fig. 10 G View Figure 10 ). It has an extra pair of sclerites at MR, short and denticulate, in addition to the pair of laminar sclerites and unpaired wishbone-shaped sclerites shared by the other species of the group.

Note.

In the original description of A. tachigaliae, Kingsolver (1976) did not mention the pair of sclerites, short and denticulate at MR (Fig. 10 G View Figure 10 ). However, we can identify them in the drawing of male genitalia of Kingsolver (1976) by carefully observing the teeth placed at the same position as these sclerites. We illustrate the extreme contrasts observed in the integument coloration between ventrites of the thorax, legs, and abdomen for A. tachigaliae (Fig. 10 C, D View Figure 10 ).

Distribution.

Panama (Barro Colorado Island, Colón *), Brazil (Amazonas-Manaus *)

Host plant.

Fabaceae : Tachigali versicolor Standl. & L. O. Williams (quoted erroneously as Tachigalia versicolor )