Aphelocerus acuticolis, OPITZ, 2005

OPITZ, WESTON, 2005, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (293), pp. 1-128 : 41-42

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9929-1149-FD48-FD0EFE3FFE23
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus acuticolis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus acuticolis , new species Figures 197 View Figs , 215, 235; map 27

HOLOTYPE: Male: Mexico: Chiapas, 2.6 km S La Trinitaria , 19–Oct. 1988, R. Turnbow ( AMNH). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; AMNH repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

PARATYPES: Two specimens with the same locality data as the holotype ( RHTC 1 ; WOPC, 1) .

DIAGNOSIS: Distinguishable from the superficially similar specimens of A. bispinous , n.sp., by the more globose pronotum, lack of setal tuft on the lower sides of the pronotum, and castaneous mouthparts.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.5–5.1 mm, width 1.5–2.0 mm. Integument: Maxillae and labium castaneous, remainder black. Vestiture: Sutural tuft absent; midelytron with narrow band of white setae, setae oriented in various directions. Head: Width across eyes feebly narrower than width across pronotum (20:21); clypeus and frons coarsely punctate, vertex finely punctate; eyes subspherical, moderately convex; antenna as in figure 215. Thorax: Pronotum equal in width and length (21:21), considerably narrower than width across humeri (21:27), finely punctate, anterior transverse depression well developed, side margins strongly arcuate; elytra feebly convex in posterior half, depth at humerus 9, greatest depth in posterior half 12, surface shallowly rugose. Abdomen: Pygidial poste rior margin evenly arcuate; aedeagus as in figure 197; paramere with medial acumination.

NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens have been collected during October.

DISTRIBUTION (map 27): Known only from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin adjective acuti (pointed) and the Latin noun colis (penis). I refer to the spinal development of the parameres of the tegment.