Pujoliclerus sentus, Opitz, Weston, 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 : 1016-1017

Pujoliclerus sentus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 20 , 141 , 347)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 430 m, 17°29.949'S- 63°33.152'W, 5-15-XI-2001, M. C. Thomas, trop. Transition forest BLT ( FSCA).

Paratype: 1 specimen. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Buena Vista, 29-X-1999, disturbed tropical forest, at light, 410 m, C. Porter, L. Stange ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: The extraordinarily rough punctation on the pronotal disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm; width 1.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 347 . Color: Cranium mostly testaceous, frons and epicranium black; antenna black; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly brown, epipleural margin testaceous; legs mostly yellow, prothoracic tibiae brown; prothoracic and metathoracic tarsi brown, metathoracic tibiae yellow. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 20 ) capitate, funicular antenno- meres shorter to capitulum; capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye as wide as frons (EW/FW 25/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 141 ) slightly transverse (PW/PL 80/73), disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 190/55). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during October.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, sentus, is a Latin name with a meaning of "rough"; with reference to the very rough surface on the pronotal disc.

Figures

Figs 1-27: Antennae; (1) Aphelocerus nodus; (2) A. copanus; (3) A. magnipannus; (4) A. yoro; (5) A. sparicapillus; (6) A. tigra. (7) A. nolus; (8) A. ligulus; (9) Perilypus schusteri; (10) P. apunctus; (11) P. virgulatus; (12) P. izabal; (13) P. alpinus; (14) Cregya fuscomacula; (15) Phonius versus; (16) Pujoliclerus ariquemes; (17) Pelonium falcatum; (18) Pujoliclerus cnecostus; (19) P. trunculus. (20) P. sentus; (21) P. testudinatus; (22) P. catie; (23) P. flavidus; (24) P. convexus; (25) P. meloinus; (26) P. mexicoensis; (27) P. tuxtlas.

Figs 134-152: Pronota; (134) Pujoliclerus catie; (135) P. mexicoensis; (136) P. convexus; (137) P. testudinatus; (138) Madoniella selvanegra; (139) Cregya entrerios; (140) Pujoliclerus trunculus; (141) P. sentus; (142) P. meloinus; (143) Sicamus suprus; (144) Nepsudia guenda; (145) Nanoclerus fuscus; (146) Topainca pachacutii; (147) Eurycaulis anaxeis; (148) Kataspinula puebla; (149) Madoniella muralla; (150) M. nota; (151) M. acicula; (152) M. baja.

Figs 346-349: Habitus; (346) Pujoliclerus mexicoensis; (347) P. sentus; (348) P. testudinatus; (349) P. trunculus.