Lepturges ( Lepturges ) prolixus Melzer, 1931

Lepturges ( Lepturges) prolixus Melzer, 1931 View in CoL

Lepturges prolixus Melzer, 1931: 69 View in CoL .

Urgleptes prolixus View in CoL ; Monné, 1976: 457.

Lepturges ( Lepturges) melzeri View in CoL ; Olivier et al., 2024: Fig. 38-40.

Note: for full references, see Monné (2024) and Tavakilian & Chevillotte (2024). See photographs on Bezark (2024) and Olivier et al. (2024), as L. ( L.) melzeri .

Remarks. – Monné (1976) transferred Lepturges prolixus to Urgleptes (translated): “Due to the position of the lateral spines of the prothorax, away from the posterior angles, and the continuous basal [posterior] row of pronotal punctures behind the tubercles [following toward sides of the prothorax], we transferred the following species to the genus Urgleptes : Urgleptes melzeri (Gilmour, 1959) , comb. n.; U. miser (Bates, 1863) , [ sic, semicolon] comb. n.; U. prolixus ( Melzer, 1931) , comb. n. and [ sic, semicolon + and] U. puerulus (Melzer, 1932) , comb. n. ” However, there are species in Lepturges ( Lepturges) with the lateral tubercles of the prothorax not close to or coinciding with the posterolateral angles. Even more importantly, the row of punctures on the posterior region of the pronotum does not continue toward the sides of the prothorax (see photographs in Olivier et al. (2024). Therefore, as the most important feature of Urgleptes , the row of punctures on the posterior region of the pronotum continuing toward the sides of the prothorax, in fact the only character that can currently be used to separate it from Lepturges ( Lepturges) , is not present in U. prolixus , the species has to be transferred to the genus in which it was described.