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Boletín de la SEA

A new systematic arrangement of the genus Agapanthia Serville, 1835 is proposed based on the shape of the male genitalia (tegmen); two subgenera are recognized, Agapanthia s. str. (type species: Saperda cardui Fabricius, 1801) and Epop- tes Gistel, 1857 (type species: Saperda asphodeli Latreille, 1804). The three new genera, Synthapsia (type species: Saperda kirbyi Gyllenhal, 1817), Chionosticta (type species: Agapanthia niveisparsa Holzschuh, 1981) and Agapanthoplia (type species: Agapanthia coeruleipennis Frivaldszky, 1878) and the six new subgenera, Agapanthia subg. Smaragdula (type species: Sa- perda violacea Fabricius, 1775, A. sbg. Homoblephara (type species: Saperda maculicornis Gyllenhal, 1817), A. subg. Sti- chodera (type species: Saperda irrorata Fabricius, 1787), A. subg. Drosotrichia (type species: Saperda annularis Olivier, 1795), A. subg. Amurobia (type species: A.amurensis Kraatz, 1879) and A. subg. Agapanthiella (type species: Cerambyx villosoviri- descens Degeer, 1775), recently introduced by Pesarini & Sabbadini (2004) and based on individual similarities without phy- logenetic relationship are regarded as synonyms of the two already existing subgenera. Characters to separate A. cardui (Lin- naeus, 1767) and A. suturalis (Fabricius, 1787) are illustrated. The synonymies A. cardui (Linnaeus, 1767) = A. pannonica Kra- tochvil, 1985 and A. suturalis (Fabricius, 1787) = A. ruficornis Pic, 1918 are confirmed. A. suturalis and A. intermedia Ganglbauer, 1884 are recorded from the Iberian Peninsula, the latter for the first time.

Notes on the genus "Agapanthia Serville", 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Agapanthiini)