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Genus: Ischiocentra

Diagnostic Features
  • Description: Elongate-oblong, small to moderate-sized, ranging from about 11–20 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown or ferrugineous with whitish, ferrugineous, and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons subquadrate to elongate, about as wide as width of two lower eye lobes. Eyes with lower lobes oblong. Genae variable in shape, from elongate to transverse, distinctly shorter than lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, widely separated; tubercles not armed at apex or armed with a small projection, or with a short, blunt horn; antennae about as long as overall body length, or as much as twice as long; scape clavate, about as long or shorter than antennomere IV; antennomere III variable in shape, from nearly straight to curved to sinuate, longer than scape and antennomere IV; antennomere XI shorter than X (females) or longer than X (males). Pronotum transverse, roughly cylindrical, with lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides roughly parallel to attenuate; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra generally uniform in coloration or speckled, or with distinct maculae; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri. Basal 1/3 of elytra with moderate to dense punctation, surface coarsely punctate to granulate-punctate. Procoxae without projection or with distinct, curved hook (males). Mesosternal process with apex feebly emarginate. Metafemora moderate to short in length, about 1/3–1/4 as long as elytra.

  • The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: large eyes; roughly cylindrical pronotum, with lateral tubercles; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri; and elytra with sides roughly parallel to slightly attenuate.

  • Similar genus/genera: superficially resembles Cordites and Ischiosioma.
Geographic Distribution
  • Central America (Costa Rica, Panama)
  • South America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
Host Plants/Trees
  • Apocynaceae (Mandevilla veraguasensis)
Girdling Behavior
  • Unknown
Notes

The genus Ischiocentra currently contains 10 species:
  Ischiocentra clavata Thomson, 1861 [type specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra diringshofeni Lane, 1956 [holotype specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra disjuncta Martins & Galileo, 1990 [holotype specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra hebes (Thomson, 1868) [type specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra insulata (Rodrigues and Mermudes, 2011)
  Ischiocentra monteverdensis Giesbert, 1984
  Ischiocentra nobilitata Thomson, 1868 [type specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra punctata Martins & Galileo, 2005
  Ischiocentra quadrisignata Thomson, 1868 [type specimen, ♂]
  Ischiocentra stockwelli Giesbert, 1984 [paratype specimen, ♀]

Generic Synonymies
  • None
Selected References
 

Ischiocentra stockwelli
paratype specimen, ♀
© E.H. Nearns

 

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The University of New Mexico and Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, USDA, APHIS, PPQ.