Pyticara lineatohumeralis PIC , 1955

Opitz, Weston, 2015, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Enopliinae GISTEL (Coleoptera Cleridae). Part IV. The New World genus Pyticara SPINOLA, Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 711-730 : 720

Pyticara lineatohumeralis PIC, 1955 ( Figs 5, 11, 19, 20 , 36 , 40 )

Pyticara lineatohumeralis PIC, 1955: 16 . Lectotype. Ƌ. Here designated. Teffé (Ega) (= Tefé), Amazones, M de Mathan, 2° Trimestre, 1879 ( Brazil) (MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: Within Pyticara , specimens of P. batesiana and the one of P. lineatohumeralis have midelytral fascia, but on the available P. lineatohumeralis specimen there is a posthumeral streak, which is not the case in P. batesiana specimens.

D e s c r i p t i o n Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 36 . Color: Cranium mostly black, broadly flavotestaceous behind eyes, gular region flavotestaceous; pronotal disc broadly black, flavotestaceous at sides; mesoscutellum testaceous; elytra bicolored, mostly black, with flavotestaceous fascia that extends from epipleural to sutural margins, humeral region with posteriorly directed flavotestaceous streak; legs mostly brown, basal half of femora flavotestaceous. Head: Not wider than anterior margin of pronotum; antennomere 9 ( Fig. 5 ) longer than funicle; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 30/37. Thorax: Pronotum transverse, side margin rounded ( Fig. 11 ); PW/PL 130/110; elytra gradually increasing in diameter from base to apex; EL/EW 510//120. Abdomen: Male pygidium not incised at distal margin; aedeagus as in Figs 19, 20 ; tegminal plates narrow, lobes strongly fimbriate.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 40 ): Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figs 1-20: Morphological organs of Pyticara species. 1-6 Antennae. (1) Pyticara batesiana; (2) P. duponti. (3) P. championi. (4) P. implana. (5) P. lineatohumeralis; (6) P. simoata. 7-12 Pronota. (7) P. batesiana. (8) P. championi. (9) P. duponti. (10) P. implana. (11) P. lineatohumeralis. (12) P. simoata. 13-20 Aedeagi. (13) P. batesiana phallus. (14) P. batesiana tegmen. (15) P. championi phallus. (16) P. championi tegmen. (17) P. duponti phallus. (18) P. duponti tegmen. (19) P. lineatohumeralis phallus. (20) P. lineatohumeralis phallus.

Figs 36-39: Photographs of Pyticara and Chrysomelidae species. (36) P. lineatohumeralis. (37) P. simoata. (38) P. duponti. (39) Chrysomelidae: Monocesta depressa.

Fig. 40: Geographic distribution of species as noted.