Platycrepidius bosque, 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 : 285

Platycrepidius bosque new species

Type Series. Holotype,?, labeled ‘‘ Rio San Lorencito , 900 m, Res. For. Sn Ramon, 5 km N Col. Palmarena, Alajuela, COSTA RICA, Mar 1990, Curso Carabidae 244500–470700; INBIO CRI000159437 .’’

Etymology. The species epithet ‘‘ bosque ’’ is Spanish for forest, in reference to this beetles’ habitat, and is used as a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. Pronotum testaceous and with a pair of black vittae, and each elytron with a short black humeral vitta. Pretarsal claws as above.

Description. Length 15.6 mm, width 4.5 mm; elongate, silhouette subfusiform, shallowly convex; integument shining, finely shallowly punctured, finely pubescent. Head testaceous, with pair piceous maculae on vertex; frons with a shallow subtriangular impression, frontal margin obtuse, projecting over labrum; antennae strongly serrate from segment 4, segments 1–3 testaceous, segments 4–11 darkly infuscate. Pronotum testaceous, with two elongate discal nigrous maculae constricted at midlength and posteriorly; pronotal base with short piceous median carina on declivity; hind angles strongly divergent, unicarinate dorsally, flavotestaceous; hypomeron flavous, mesal margin shallowly excavate and slightly flaired anteriorly. Scutellum nigrous. Elytra flavous, nigrous on basal margin, humeri, strial intervals 1–2 to apex, and strial intervals 6–9 and epipleuron from metafemoral notch to apex. Prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, abdominal ventrites, and legs testaceous to rufotestaceous. Aedeagus ( Fig. 2 ) with median lobe shallowly constricted at midlength, narrow apically, apex obtuse; paramere narrowly sagittate, with 2 dorsal and 24–26 ventral setae.

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.