The genus Epicasta Thomson, 1864 and the limits of the morphological systematics in the study of Lamiinae (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Vitali, Francesco (2025): The genus Epicasta Thomson, 1864 and the limits of the morphological systematics in the study of Lamiinae (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Faunitaxys 13 (7): 1-5, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(07), URL: dx.doi.org/10.1080/09273948.2025.2496729 Abstract. – Epicasta malayana n. sp. from peninsular Malaysia is described.

The peculiar coloration of this specieshas allowed allocating it into the genus Epicasta Thomson, 1864 (Desmiphorini, olim Epicastini), but the presence of a cicatrix on the scape places it into the tribe Lamiini. The analysis of the other species of the genus has allowed transferring Epicasta to Lamiini and to consider Epicastini a junior synonym of Lamiini. The systematic position of Acaloleptabiocellata Breuning 1940andof thegenus Pseudodihammus Breuning, 1936, which show characters similar to Epicasta, are discussed.