Neorthopleura quintana, 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 : 993

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809343

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Neorthopleura quintana
status

nov.sp.

Neorthopleura quintana OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 38 View Figs 28-42 , 184 View Figs 179-193 , 231 View Figs 231-236 , 311 View Figs 310-313 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: MEXICO, Quintana Roo, 17 km NW Felipe Carrillo Puerto , 17-VI- 1990, coll. M. C. Thomas ( FSCA) . Paratypes: 3 specimens. Mexico: Estado de Quintana Roo, 18 km N Carrillo Puerto , 1-VI-1984, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 2; WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Testaceous legs and differences in the aedeagus distinguish the members of this species from the superficially similar members of N. thomasi . The genus Neorthopleura BARR was revised by OPITZ (2013b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 311 View Figs 310-313 . Color: Cranium and pronotum red; antenna black except scape testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra brown, with faintly visible testaceous lunulate fascia; legs testaceous; abdomen brown. Head: Cranium densely, finely punctate; lower frons indented; antenna capitate, funicular antennomeres progressively shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 with long ( Fig. 38 View Figs 28-42 , male) collateral branch; antennomere 11 oblong; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider (male) than frons (EW/FW 40/30, male). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 184 View Figs 179-193 ) convex, transverse, side margins convex (PW/PL 115/105); elytra moderately convex, disc densely sculptured with small setiferous punctures; epipleural margin abruptly terminates at elytral middle (EL/EW 360/80). Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate/scutiform, posterior margin emarginated; aedeagus as in Fig. 231 View Figs 231-236 .

Variation: The width of the frons is sex dimorphic.

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

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

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Neorthopleura

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