Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain, 1859

Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain, 1859 View in CoL

Emphytoecia Fairmaire & Germain, 1859: 529 View in CoL .

Emphytoecia ( Dimidiatipenna) Özdikmen, 2025g: 3145 . Syn. nov.

Remarks. Özdikmen ( 2025g) divided Emphytoecia into two subgenera and reported: “In first group [ Emphytoecia ( Emphytoecia) Fairmaire & Germain, 1859: 529 ], posterior margin of pronotum never with a transverse, narrowly white band; elytra always with a longitudinal, narrowly white band at the suture; light colored bands of hairs on pronotum and elytra always longitudinal, never transverse;” and “In second group, posterior margin of pronotum always with a transverse, narrowly white band; elytra never with a longitudinal, narrowly white band at the suture; light colored bands of hairs on pronotum and elytra both longitudinal and transverse, at least a narrowly white band in the posterior margin of pronotum and a medial or slightly postmedial white band of hairs on elytra always transverse.”

One more time, the features pointed out by Özdikmen ( 2025g) are only specific differences. Furthermore, according to him, the elytral suture in E. ( Dimidiatipenna) does not have a longitudinal narrow whitish pubescent band. However, it is present in the type species of the subgenus, Saperda alboliturata Blanchard, 1851 (Elitros … con una muy diminuta línea blanquizea cerca de la sutura [Elytra ... with a very narrow whitish line near the suture]).