Plocamocera bispina, 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 : 53

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-FF9A-FFFB-FF30-FA01A4C840D3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Plocamocera bispina
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Plocamocera bispina , new species Figures 154, 202 View Figs ; map 7

HOLOTYPE: Female. Brazil: Matto Grosso : Rio Caraguata, 21 ° 48 ̍, 52 ° 27 ̍, XII 1953, 400 m alt., Fritz Plaumann ( FMNH). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine and hand printed; FMNH repository label, white, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: Within the coactilis species group, P. bispina specimens are readily identified by the following combination of characteristics: Cranium piceous, protibial anterior margin with two spines.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Integument: Cranium piceous; pronotum castaneous; elytra variegated, with flavous humeral macula that divides posteriorly, postmedial fascia angular, transverse, extend ed to sutural margin; profemur predominantly flavotestaceous, mesofemur predominantly castaneous, metafemur flavotestaceous in basal half, piceous in remainder; tibiae progressively more infuscated from proto metatibia. Head: Antennal club as in figure 154. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin moderately projected at middle; pronotal discal swelling shallow, pronotal arch feebly scabrous; elytral epipleural margin with five conspicuous trichobothria; protibial anterior margin with two spines. Abdomen: Female pygidium broadscutiform.

VARIATION: Not observed.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected from the type locality during December.

DISTRIBUTION (map 7): Known only from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a compound name formulated from the Latin prefix by (two) and the Latin noun spina (thorn). I refer to the two spines on the protibia.