Sirpa latiflava OPITZ, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 1021

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809297

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D86B-FFE4-3CB4-FE2332E7FFBD

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Valdenar

scientific name

Sirpa latiflava OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Sirpa latiflava OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 58 View Figs 43-60 , 157 View Figs 153-162 , 258 View Figs 255-261 , 354 View Figs 354-357 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res., 30 km (air) sw Pto. Maldonado , 290 m, 12°50'S 069°20'W. A second label reads: Smithsonian Institution , Canopy Fogging Project , T. L. Erwin et al colls. 10Sep84, 02/02/04. A third label reads: 0053682 ( USNM). GoogleMaps Paratype: 1 specimen. Peru: Region Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res., 30 km (air) SW Puerto Maldonado , 12°50'S 069°20'W, 8-IX- 1984, 290 m, T. L. Erwin ( USNM). GoogleMaps

D i a g n o s i s: In 2016, OPITZ published a key to the species of Sirpa OPITZ ( OPITZ 2016: 262). Sirpa latiflava specimens key out to S. parva OPITZ from which S. latiflava specimens differ by showing a more transverse pronotum that is also more convex and a much broader aedeagus.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.2 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 354 View Figs 354-357 . Color: Cranium mostly testaceous, with broad black marking that covers upper frons and epicranium; prothorax mostly testaceous, pronotum broadly black at middle; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen dark brown; elytra mostly testaceous, black at base of sutural margin and in elytral apical region. Head: Eye coarsely facetted, as wide as frons (EW/FW 24/24); antenna capitate ( Fig. 58 View Figs 43-60 ), funicular antennomeres subfiliform, gradually shorter and wider to capitulum, capitulum sex dimorphic, slightly longer in male, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular, antennomere 11 subrectangulate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 157 View Figs 153-162 ) transverse, lateral tubercles slightly defined (PW/PL 80/60), disc coarsely punctate; asetiferous punctures profusely distributed on elytral disc, epipleural margin prominent, narrows to elytral apex (EL/EW 235/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 258. View Figs 255-261

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected in September, at 290 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromPeru.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, latiflava, is a Latin compound name that stems from latus (= side) and flavis (= yellow); with reference to the color of the sides of the elytra.

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Sirpa

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