Platycrepidius alajuelensis, Johnson, Paul J., 2000

Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3), pp. 284-290 : 284-285

Platycrepidius alajuelensis , new species

Type Series. Holotype,?, labeled ‘‘ Sect. San Ramon de Dos Rios , Prov. Alaju, COSTA RICA, 620 m, 27 ABR­11 MAY 1995, C. Cano, L N 318100 381900 #5276; INBIO CRI002146015 .’’

Etymology. Named for the province of Alajuela, from which the type was collected.

Diagnosis. The pronotum yellow with a black median vitta, and the elytral base flavous with apex black and a flavous subapical macula, provide immediate recognition. Pretarsal claws with single large ventral seta.

Description. Length 12.8 mm, width 2.5 mm; elongate, silhouette subfusi­

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form, shallowly convex; integument shining, finely to moderately, shallowly punctured, finely pubescent. Head nigrous; frons with a shallow subtriangular impression, frontal margin obtuse, projecting over labrum; antennae strongly serrate from segment 4, nigrous, except segments 9–11 infuscate. Pronotum flavous with a nigrous median vitta; pronotal base with short smooth median carina on declivity; hind angles strongly divergent, unicarinate dorsally; hypomeron flavous, mesal margin shallowly excavate and slightly flaired anteriorly. Scutellum nigrous. Elytra flavous in basal half, nigrous in apical half, with flavous preapical macula. Prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum nigrous with infuscate to flavous highlights; abdominal ventrites nigrous with lateral margins flavous; legs flavous, except tarsi nigrous. Aedeagus ( Fig. 1 ) with median lobe constricted at midlength, narrow apically, apex obtuse; paramere narrowly sagittate, with 3 dorsal and 14–16 ventral setae.

Additional Specimens Examined. PANAMA, Panama Province, Cerro Jefe (?)( R. Morris) .

Notes. Females are unknown.

Figures

Figs. 1–6. Platycrepidius spp., aedeagi, all in dorsal aspect. 1) P. alajuelensis n. sp.; 2) P. bosque n. sp.; 3) P. costaricensis n. sp.; 4) P. decimnotatus n. sp.; 5) P. duodecimnotatus n. sp.; 6) P. tico n. sp.