Pyticeroides brevitubulus, Opitz, Weston, 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 : 987

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809186

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pyticeroides brevitubulus
status

nov.sp.

Pyticeroides brevitubulus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 76 View Figs 61-91 , 193 View Figs 179-193 , 227 View Figs 225-230 , 304 View Figs 302-305 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: PERU: Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res. , 1250S 6920N, 20-29-X- 1982, R. C. Wilkerson, Insect flight trap ( FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pyticeroides KUWERT was revised in 2007 ( OPITZ 2007). That work included a key to Pyticeroides species. The available specimen of Pyticeroides brevitubulus keys out to P. eurides OPITZ, from which the P. brevitubulus holotype differs by showing a significantly shorter aedeagal phallobase.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 304 View Figs 302-305 . Color: Cranium castaneous; antenna black; prothorax mostly black, broadly testaceous at sides; pterothorax brown; elytra black; legs bicolorous, mostly black, metafemoral base testaceous, tarsi yellow. Head: Frons deeply concave; antenna ( Fig. 76 View Figs 61-91 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse, compacted, and densely setose, capitular antennomeres 7 and 8 triangular, antennomere 9 ovoid; eyes large, finely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 25/15). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 193 View Figs 179-193 ) transverse (PW/PL 65/50), sides without tubercle, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures small, mostly striate, punctures less striate near sutural margin (EL/EW 310/70); epipleuron well developed, extended to elytral apex; anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; phallobase as in Fig. 227. View Figs 225-230

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during August.

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, brevitubulus, is a Latin compound name that stems from tubus (= pipe) and brevis (= short); with reference to the short phallobase of the aedeagus.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Pyticeroides

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