Nepsudia guenda 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 : 1007-1008

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809277

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D865-FFEB-3CB4-FA6D3323F982

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scientific name

Nepsudia guenda OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Nepsudia guenda OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 96 View Figs 92-100 , 144 View Figs 134-152 , 244, 332)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda, 10-15 Oct. 2007, 370 m, J. Wappes & a. Cline . A second label reads: Reserva Natural , 40k NW Santa Cruz, 17°40'S; 63°27'W ( FSCA). GoogleMaps

D i a g n o s i s: The combination of 11 antennomeres, subsecuriform terminal maxillary palpi, antennomere 9 longer than funicle, and tarsal spur formula 1-2-2 are characteristics that distinguish members of this species from others within Peloniinae .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 332 View Figs 330-333 . Color: Cranium black; antenna bicolored, fundus black, capitulum mostly yellow, posterior margin of capitular antennomeres black; pronotum reddish, anterior and posterior margins infuscated; thoracic venter, legs, and abdomen testaceous; elytra bicolored, mostly testaceous, each elytron with 2 broad black lines extending posteriorly from elytral anterior margin. Head: Eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 28/16); antenna capitate ( Fig. 96 View Figs 92-100 ), funicular antennomeres filiform, gradually shorter to capitulum, capitulum very long rectangulate, antennomere 9 longer than length of funicle. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 114 View Figs 101-117 ) quadrate, lateral tubercles slightly-defined (PW/PL 75/75), disc finely punctate; elytral disc asetiferous punctures substriate (EL/EW 240/75). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 244. View Figs 243-248

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in October.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, guenda, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

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