Plocamocera santa, OPITZ, 2004

OPITZ, WESTON, 2004, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part Ii. The Genera Chaetophloeus Opitz And Plocamocera Spinola, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2004 (280), pp. 1-82 : 54

Plocamocera santa , new species Figures 160, 200 ; map 6

HOLOTYPE: Female. Brazil: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia , 9­I­1957 ( IZAN). (Specimen card mounted, antenna mounted on mount card; abdomen mounted on paper point; locality label, light green, machine and hand printed; IZAV repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: One specimen from the same locality as the holotype ( WOPC, 1).

DIAGNOSIS: The subovoid shape of the eighth antennomere distinguishes the mem­ bers of this species from superficially similar specimens of P. paris , n. sp.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.0–4.8 mm; width 1.2–1.7 mm. Integument: Cranium black; pronotum predominantly piceous, dark castaneous near margins; elytra variegated, predominantly piceous, posthumeral flavotestaceous tripartite macula well developed, disc with short oblique flavotestaceous macula at middle; patches of white setae prominent on flavotestaceous macula and at preapex; legs bicolorous, pro­mesofemora piceous ventrally, flavotestaceous dorsally; metafemur flavotestaceous in basal half, piceous in distal half; tibia piceous in basal twothirds, flavotestaceous in remainder; tarsus flavotestaceous. Head: Antennal club as in figure 160. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin strongly projecting at middle; discal swelling prominent; protibial anterior margin with three spines; elytral epipleural margin with four conspicuous trichobothria. Abdomen: Female pygidium broad­ scutiform.

VARIATION: The two available specimens do not vary appreciably.

NATURAL HISTORY: The type specimens were collected from southern Brazil during January.

DISTRIBUTION (map 6): Known only from southern Brazil.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet represents a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs. 196–212. Antennal clubs. 196. Plocamocera sesquipedalis. 197. P. similis. 198. P. coactilis. 199. P. aspera. 200. P. santa. 201. P. onorei. 202. P. bispina. 203. P. carnegei. 204. P. paris. 205. P. ambra. 206. P. bolivari. 207. P. auratilis. 208. P. insula. 209. P. selva. 210. P. cericellopsis. 211. P.