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Acanthoderes quadrigibba - Aegomorphus quadrigibbus

Acanthoderes quadrigibba - Aegomorphus quadrigibbus
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA

Moved
Moved from Acanthoderini.

Moved

Acanthoderes
A. quadrigibba (Say)

 
??
was going to move, but there appears to be a conflict - see here, which agrees with the info page.

 
Sources may be out of date
Linsley & Chemsak (1984) use Aegomorphus. Monne & Hovore (2005) and Bezark's Cerambycid website use Acanthoderes. I don't have the latest edition of the Western Hemisphere checklist but Bezark modifies his list to correspond so it should be up to date.

 
Monné et al. (2007)...
...placed this species in Acanthoderes as well. I missed this in both the 2005 and 2007 checklists (as did Lingafelter 2007). What I do not know is who made the original transfer - it seems odd that Monné/Hovore would have done so in a catalogue without comment, but I have no literature prior to the 2005 checklist that places it in Acanthoderes since Linsley & Chemsak (1984) first transferred all of the North American "Acanthoderes" into the genus Aegoschema.

I guess we need to change Aegomorphus quadrigibbus to Acanthoderes quadrigibba.

 
Does modestus stay
in Aegomorphus or does it change too? In other words, do we make a new genus page for Acanthoderes and move quadrigibbus there, or do we simply rename Aegomorphus to Acanthoderes and both modestus and quadrigibbus both become Acanthoderes?

 
Aegomorphus still valid
Bezark maintains A. modestus in Aegomorphus and I suspect that placement follows the latest catalog.

 
Yes...
...A. quadrigibba was the only species transferred to Acanthoderes - the remaining North American species were retained in Aegomorphus in both the 2005 and 2007 catalogues.

 
Ted- Thanks! Had to locate at
Ted- Thanks! Had to locate at Acanthoderini

 
Actually, you could have left it on
the species page. Whatever happens to all the images will happen to yours too. We'll move it back there.

 
Mike- Thanks! Please let me k
Mike- Thanks! Please let me know what the proper name is when reconciled.

Flat-faced Longhorn (Lamiinae, Cerambycidae)
Finding out even the tribe of this stout species is a matter for a specialist.

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