Timbaraba
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Subfamily: Cerambycinae
Tribe: Bothriospilini
Genus: Timbaraba
Monné & Napp, 2004
Species:
T. dispar
Binomial name
Timbaraba dispar
Monné & Napp, 2004

Timbaraba dispar is a species of beetle in the tribe Bothriospilini (family Cerambycidae), and the only species in the genus Timbaraba.[1] Both the genus and its species were described in 2004 by Brazilian entomologists Marcela Laura Monné and Dilma Solange Napp. Timbaraba dispar occurs in Venezuela. It has filiform (threadlike) antennae with 11 segments, and a trapezoidal mentum. The genus name Timbaraba – an indigenous word that means "sprinkles of white" – refers to the eburneous (resembling ivory) callosities that occur on the elytra.[2]

References

  1. Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Retrieved on 22 May 2012.
  2. Monné, M.L.; Napp, D.S. (2005). "New South American Genus and Species, and Notes on Xenambyx lansbergei (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Torneutini)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 58 (4): 509–512. JSTOR 4009833.


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