Labasiella boyaca, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, ClassiIication, Natural History, and Evolution oI the SubIamily Peloniinae OPITZ (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae). Part XIII. The New World genera oI checkered beetles of the Labasiella complex, Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (1), pp. 127-170 : 140-142

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3762392

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3804534

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A412E01D-1C09-3926-E49F-4837E05309A1

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Valdenar

scientific name

Labasiella boyaca
status

nov.sp.

Labasiella boyaca OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 20 View Figs 1-27 , 46 View Figs 44-56 , 71 View Fig 71 , 76 View Figs 72-80 , 99 View Figs 97-102 )

Holotype: ♂. Colombia: Boyaca, SFF Iguaque, Qda. Los Mudos , Malaise , 22-I-8-II-2003, P. Reina ( FSCA). Paratypes: 3 specimens. Colombia: Departamento de Boyacả, SFF Iguaque, Cabaña Mamarramos, 5°25'N 73°27'W, 23-V-2000, P. Reina (WOPC, 1); Departamento de Cundinamarca, Bogotả, Chico, 2-I-1959, J. F. G. Clarke ( USNM, 1). Venezuela: Estado de Merida, Tabay La Mucuy , Send. Lag. Suero, 17-VI-31-VII-1989, Malaise trap, S. & J. Peck ( CMNC, 1) .

Diagnosis: The members of this species superficially resemble those of L. cochabamba , but in L. boyaca specimens the elytral punctures do not extend to the elytral apex.

Description: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 76 View Figs 72-80 . Integument: Cranium and thorax dark castaneous; antenna brown; mouthparts mostly testaceous, terminal maxillary and labial palpomeres and mandibles brown; legs mostly brown, proximal region of prothoracic femur testaceous, distal region of profemur, remaining femora and all tibiae brown, tarsi testaceous; pterothorax brown; elytra mostly castaneous, with posthumeral and postmedial angular fasciae. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, antennal funicular antennomeres subfiliform ( Fig. 20 View Figs 1-27 ), capitulum lax, antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular, antennomere 11 suboval; eyes small, frons wide (EW/FW 14/35); last maxillary and labial palpomere subsecuriform ( Fig. 54B View Figs 44-56 ). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 46 View Figs 44-56 ) with angular tubercle at sides, disc coarsely punctate, with 7 small knobs; elytral asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures end at posterior 3/4 th, epipleural margin not serrate near elytral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus ( Fig. 99 View Figs 97-102 ), distal region of phallobase slightly lobed, tegmen very reduced, submembranous, phallobasic struts confluent with phallobasic apodeme, phallobasic rod long; phallic plates broad, phallic apex large triangular.

Variation: Size: Length 4.0-5.0 mm; width 1.5-1.7 mm. The paratype has a testaceous elytral apex.

Distribution ( Fig. 71 View Fig 71 ): This species is known from Colombia and Venezuela.

Etymology: The trivial name, boyaca, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

FSCA

USA, Florida, Gainesville, Division of Plant Industry, Florida State Collection of Arthropods

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Labasiella

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