Pujoliclerus trunculus, 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 : 1017-1018

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809319

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pujoliclerus trunculus
status

nov.sp.

Pujoliclerus trunculus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 19 View Figs 1-27 , 254 View Figs 249-254 , 349)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz Dist. Potrerillos del Guenda, Preserva Natural , 17°40'S 63°27'W, 370 m, 1-4-OCT-2007, Wappes & Morris, ex. MV/BL ( FSCA) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 5 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda , 23-30-X-2013, Wappes & Kuckartz (ACMT, 1; WOPC, 1) ; idem, 40 km NW Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Huaico , 17°40'S- 063°26'W, 28-X-2013, J. E. Wappes ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; Buena Vista , Flora & Fauna Hotel, 21- 25-X-2003, Morris, Nearns, Wappes ( RFMC, 1) ; 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna , 5- 15-Xi- 2001, 430 m, M. C. Thomas ( FSCA, 1)..

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d). This work included a key to species. Pujoliclerus trunculus specimens key to P. wappesi OPITZ from which P. trunculus specimens differ in showing a much more elongated capitulum.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 349 View Figs 346-349 . Color: Cranium bicolorous, clypeus and lower frons, and cranial venter yellow, upper frons and epicranium black; antenna mostly black, disc of capitular antennomeres slightly lighter; prothorax tricolorous, pronotal basal 1/3 rd black, anterior 2/3 rd mostly yellow, disc slightly infuscated, pronotal sternum yellow; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly brown, epipleural margin yellow to elytral apex; legs mostly yellow, tibiae and tarsi infuscated. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 19 View Figs 1-27 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter to capitulum; capitular antennomeres extraordinarily oblong/ subrectangulate; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye much wider than frons (EW/FW 30/12). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 140 View Figs 134-152 ) quadrate (PW/PL 65/65), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 9 striae of asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 220/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 254. View Figs 249-254

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during October and November, one at 370 m, another at 400 m.

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, trunculus, is a Latin name that stems from truncus (= cut off); about the shape of the distal region of the male 5 th visible abdominal sternite.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Pujoliclerus

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