Plocamocera selva, OPITZ, 2004

OPITZ, WESTON, 2004, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part Ii. The Genera Chaetophloeus Opitz And Plocamocera Spinola, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2004 (280), pp. 1-82 : 61

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2004)280<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B087FF-FF92-FFF3-FF3E-FF13A1414169
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Plocamocera selva
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Plocamocera selva , new species Figures 121 View Figs , 169; map 10

HOLOTYPE: Male. Bolivia: Santa Cruz: 5k ESE Warnes, Hotel Rio Selva , 20X200, blacklight trap, M. C. Thomas ( FSCA). (Specimen point mounted, sex label and antenna affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; FSCA repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: These beetles may be conveniently distinguished from superficially similar specimens of P. insula , n. sp. By the uniform curvate margins of the tenth antennomere.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Integument: Cranium dark castaneous; pronotum castaneous at periphery, dark castaneous at disc; elytra variegated; legs flavotestaceous, femore infuscated distally. Head: Antenna as in figure 169. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin prominently projected at middle, discal swelling very prominent; elytral epipleural margin with three conspicuous trichobothria; protibial anterior margin with three spines. Abdomen: Male pygidium broadscutiform; aedeagus (fig. 121) lanceolate.

VARIATION: One specimen examined.

NATURAL HISTORY: The only available specimen was collected with blacklight.

DISTRIBUTION (map 10): This species is only known from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.