Platycrepidius costaricensis, Johnson, Paul J., 2000

Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3), pp. 284-290 : 285-287

Platycrepidius costaricensis new species

Type Series. Holotype,?, labeled ‘‘ Sect. San Ramón de Dos Rios , Prov. Alaju, COSTA RICA, 620m, 20 FEB­3 MAR 1995, C. Cano, L p N p 318100 p 381900 #4398; INBIO CRI002175694 .’’

Etymology. Named for the country of Costa Rica.

Diagnosis. Body entirely piceous to black and each elytron with 5 ivory colored burnishes. Pretarsal claws as above.

Description. Length 12.2–12.4 mm, width 3.1–3.3 mm; elongate, silhouette subfusiform, shallowly convex; integument subshining, moderately to coarsely punctured, finely pubescent. Body piceous to nigrous throughout, except anterior portion of frons, epipleuron, and legs pale flavous; antennal segments 1–3 infuscate, segments 4–11 piceous; five ivory burnishes on each elytron. Frons with a shallow subtriangular impression, frontal margin obtuse, slightly projecting over labrum; antennae strongly serrate from segment 4. Pronotum with hind angles strongly divergent, unicarinate dorsally; pronotal base with short median carina obsolescent posteriorly, subtuberculate anteriorly; hypomeron with mesal margin shallowly grooved and slightly flaired anteriorly. Elytra with apices divergent, acuminate from interval 1; each elytron with 5 ivory burnishes. Aedeagus ( Fig. 3 ) with median lobe shallowly constricted at midlength, narrow apically, apex obtuse; paramere narrowly sagittate, with 11– 13 dorsal and 13–15 ventral setae.

Additional Material Examined. COSTA RICA, Prov. Limón, CRI000397846 (/); Prov. Guanacaste, 2 mi. N. Bijagus (/)( UNLC) .

Figures

Figs. 1–6. Platycrepidius spp., aedeagi, all in dorsal aspect. 1) P. alajuelensis n. sp.; 2) P. bosque n. sp.; 3) P. costaricensis n. sp.; 4) P. decimnotatus n. sp.; 5) P. duodecimnotatus n. sp.; 6) P. tico n. sp.