Eurycaulis anaxeis, 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 : 1004

Eurycaulis anaxeis OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 53 , 147 , 240, 328)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda ; 40 km NW Santa Cruz, 17°40.3'S- 063°27.4' W, 3-X-2007, R. Morris, light ( FSCA) . Paratype: 1 specimen. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda ; 40 km NW Santa Cruz, 17°40.3'S- 063°27.4' W, 3-X-2007, light, R. Morris ( RFMC) .

D i a g n o s i s: The broad condition of the phallobasic apodeme will distinguish the members of this species from others within Peloniinae .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 328 . Color: Forebody testaceous, except pronotal collar slightly infuscated; antennal basal half testaceous, brown in remainder; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly dark brown, epipleural margin testaceous. Head: Eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 27/22); antenna capitate ( Fig. 53 ), funicular antennomeres filiform, gradually shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 147 ) slightly transverse; lateral tubercle slightly defined (PW/PL 73/67), disc finely punctate; elytral disc without asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 130/35). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 240.

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, anaxeis, is a Greek adjective that stems from anaxeo (= polish); with reference to the surface of the elytral disc.

Figures

Figs 43-60: Antennae; (43) Ordinis taxis; (44) Pelonium tayrona; (45) Neorthopleura turnbowi, male; (46) N. turnbowi, female; (47) Megaphloeus imparilus; (48) Plocamocera catalexis; (48 a) Cregya entrerios; (49) Ridica merida. (50) Kataspinula puebla. (51) Cregya tobagoensis; (52) Topainca patchacutii; (53) Eurycaulis anaxeis; (54) Amboakis expandosa. (55) Ridica achira. (56) Ampleris cacuminis; (57) Sicamus suprus; (58) Sirpa latiflava; (59) Alarius careoritus; (60) Cregya petalosa.

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 326-329: Habitus; (326) Cregya triguttata; (327) C. vicosa; (328) Eurycaulis anaxcis; (329) Isoparis cassidilis.

Figs 237-242: Aedeagi; (237) Cregya arima; (238) C. biguttula; (239) C. vicosa; (240) Eurycaulis anaxeis; (241) Pelonium tayrona; (242) P. implacide.