Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56

Two new genera of myrmecomorph longicorn beetles from Australia and New Caledonia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Citation

Vives, E. 2012. Two new genera of myrmecomorph longicorn beetles from Australia and New Caledonia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56(1): 79-84. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.1.2012-07

Published online

17 February 2012

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.1.2012-07

Keywords

Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Myrmeciocephalus gen. nov., monteithi sp. nov., Australia, Myrmeparmena gen. nov. sudrei sp. nov., New Caledonia

Abstract 

Two new genera and species of myrmecomorph Cerambycidae are described. Myrmeciocephalus monteithi gen. et sp. nov. (Cerambycinae: Ametrocephalini) comes from mountains of north Queensland, where it apparently associates with the ant, Myrmecia flavicoma minuscula Forel, 1915. All members of this tribe are ant mimics. Myrmeparmena sudrei gen. et sp. nov., (Lamiinae: Parmenini) is from the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, and is provisionally placed in the tribe Parmenini. For this species we lack any information relative to the formicids with which it may coexist.