Priocera fissura 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 : 1176-1177

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532187

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFE8-FFE9-7982-2452FD67FE2B

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scientific name

Priocera fissura OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera fissura OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 45, 89, 132)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna , 17°29.949'S 63°33.152' 5-15-XI- 2001, 405 m, M. C. Thomas & B. K. Dozier, tropical transition forest ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: 5 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna , 17°29.949'S 63°33.152'W, 5-15-XI- 2001, 405 m, M. C. Thomas & B. K. Dozier ( FSCA, 1; WOPC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 14-28-X-2000, B. K. Dozier ( FSCA, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 27-31- X-2002, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 1) GoogleMaps ; 4 km N Bermejo, Refugio Los Volcanes , 18°06'S 63°36'W, 5-X-2007, blacklight/mercury vapor light, J. E. Wappes ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except pronotal collar yellow at sides; antenna, pterothorax, and abdomen testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, anterior and posterior angles castaneous; elytra bicolorous, basal 3/4 mostly black, apical 1/4 testaceous, each elytral disc with 3 pale markings, one marking at middle of elytral base, one oblong diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one triangular marking slightly behind middle approaching sutural margin, the 2 more posterior markings conjoin with epipleural margin; legs bicolorous, femora and tibiae mostly brown, femora yellow at base, tarsi yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.5 mm; width 1.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 132 View Figs 132-135 . Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 30/5. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 50/80); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 270/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 45.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 4.2-5.5 mm; width 1.0- 1.2 mm. The width of the frons is sex dimorphic, with males having narrower frons.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during October and November, 2 at 405 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, fissura, is a Latin noun with a meaning of "cleft". I refer to the small fissure in the central part of the pronotum.

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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