Beraba Martins 1997

Beraba Martins, 1997 Beraba Martins, 1997: 67. Beraba (Martinsiella) Özdikmen, 2025b: 2897. Syn. nov. Remarks. Özdikmen (2025b) divided Beraba into two subgenera and reported: “In first group [Beraba (Beraba) Martins, 1997: 67], pronotum always with two discrete, medio-laterally, antero-discal tubercles; these tubercles of pronotum of same color as remainder of pronotum, and so pronotum uniformly colored;” and “In second group, pronotum always with two discrete, medio-laterally, antero-discal tubercles; these tubercles of pronotum black contrasting in color from remainder of pronotum, and so pronotum not uniformly colored.” This implies that the author divided the genus solely based on the color of the pronotal tubercles. Botero & Monné (2018) included three species of Beraba in his cladistic analysis of Eburiini: B. moema Martins, 1997; B. cheilaria (Martins, 1967); and B. erosa (Martins, 1981). The former was included by Özdikmen (2025b) in Beraba (Martinsiella). According to Botero & Monné (2018): “Finally, the present analysis was not able to recover the monophyly of the genera Beraba, Eburella, Eburia and Eburodacrys. Further investigations with expanded taxonomic sampling, especially of speciose genera such as Beraba, Eburia and Eburodacrys (18, 86 and 89 species, respectively), and different kinds of data (e.g. molecular data) are needed to gain a better understanding of questions regarding the relationships within the genera of Eburiini and propose any taxonomic change.” Although these authors suspect that Beraba is not monophyletic, it is evident that the color of the pronotal tubercles could never be used—nor should it ever be used—to divide the genus, whether into genera or subgenera. This is a highly variable feature among species within the same genus of Eburiini and, in some cases, can even vary within a single species. Consequently, we are synonymizing Beraba (Martinsiella) with Beraba.