Artoadenus atrafinus OPITZ, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 1023

Artoadenus atrafinus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 31 , 163 , 357 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: PERU: Madre de Dios; Rio Tambopata Res., 30 air km. SW Pto. Maldonado , 290 m., 16-20 XI-1979, J. B. Heppner, subtropical moist forest ( FSCA) .

D i a g n o s i s: The available member of this species is superficially similar to specimens of Platynoptera similis OPITZ from which it differs by showing a narrow testaceous line between two broad black lines on the pronotal disc. The genus Platynoptera SPINOLA was revised by OPITZ (2015b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.5 mm; width 4.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 357 . Color: Cranium bicolorous, clypeus and venter testaceous; frons and epicranium black except epicranium with narrow testaceous line at middle; antenna black; pronotal disc with two broad black vitta between which is narrow testaceous line, pronotal sides broadly testaceous, lower sides brown; pterothorax testaceous; elytra bicolorous, with broad testaceous marking extended posteriorly from humeral angle, with testaceous fascia at discal middle that expands from epipleural to sutural margin; legs mostly brown, basal 1/2 of femora testaceous; abdomen bicolorous, testaceous and brown. Head: Eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye slightly wider than frons (EW/FW 43/40); funicular antennomeres ( Fig. 31 ) transverse and very setose; capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 long rectangulate, antennomere 11 oblong ovate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 163 ) transverse; pronotal tubercles shallow (PW/PL 150/120), disc finely punctate; elytral asetiferous punctures minute and profusely distributed, elytra notably flared in posterior 1/2 (EL/EW 550/160). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during November, at 290 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromPeru.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, atrafinus, is a Latin compound name that stems from atra (= black) and finis (= end); with regard to the black coloration at the distal 1/3 of the elytal disc.

Figures

Figs 28-42: Antennae; (28) Neorthopleura thomasi, male; (29) N. thomasi, female; (30) N. subfasciata, male; (31) Artoadenus atrafinus; (32) Neorthopleura subfasciata, female; (33) Akonesis atraordinis; (34) Pelonium erudiatum; (35) Neorthopleura cuspidis, female; (36) Agnatis curvabilis; (37) Ichnea paraguayensis; (38) Neorthopleura quintana, male; (39) Pyticara frontegalba; (40) Platynoptera potaro; (41) Neorthopleura cuspidis, male; (42) Nanoclerus fuscus.

Figs 163-170: Pronota; (163) Artoadenus atrafinus; (164) Cregya triguttula; (165) C. biguttula; (166) Perilypus schusteri (167) Platynoptera potaro; (168) Pelonium erudiatum; (169) Parapelonides aodontus; (170) Isoparis cassidilis.

Figs 354-357: Habitus; (354) Sirpa latiflava; (355) Topainca pachacutii; (356) Platynoptera potaro; (357) Artoadenus atrafinus.