Priocera unimacula OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1204

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039130

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFCC-FFF2-7982-234AFDA7F990

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scientific name

Priocera unimacula OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera unimacula OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 89 View Figs 89 , 173 View Figs 172-175 )

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: VENEZUELA, Aragua, Rancho Grande , 1200-1400m, Aug. 13, 1988, C&L. O’Brien & Wibmer ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: 1 specimen. Venezuela: Estado de Aragua, Rancho Grande, 13- VIII- 1988, 1,200 -1,400 m, C.& L. O’Brien & Wibner ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; antennae testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra bicolored, mostly castaneous, with with one, cross-like yellow marking at middle, apical 1/5 th yellow; legs mostly black, base of mesofemu and metafemu testaceous; abdomen yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 173 View Figs 172-175 . Head: Epicranium with wrinkles; frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 40/8). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 75/110); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend posteriorly slightly beyond elytral 1/2 ( EL /EW 310/55); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

V a r i a t i o n: The 2 available specimens are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The type was collected during August, at an altitude between 1,200 and 1,400 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 89 View Figs 89 ): This species is known from the Venezuela.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, unimacula, is a Latin compound name that stems from the prefix uni (= one) and macula (= spot), with reference to the single cross-like marking in the middle of the elytral disc.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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