Aphelocerus hespenheidei, 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 : 85

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-9955-1134-FF3D-FD7BFBCBFD15
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus hespenheidei
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus hespenheidei , new species Figures 206 View Figs , 247 View Figs ; map 25

HOLOTYPE: Male. COSTA RICA, Heredia: Est. Biol. La Selva , 50–150 m, 108269N, 848019W, Oct. 1994, INBioOET ( INBC). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; collection date label [22 Octubre 1994 FPM/28/29, Pentaclethra macrolobia ], white machine and hand printed; INBC repository label, white, machine printed; electronic label (INBIO CR 1002287830); holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: One specimen from the same locality as the holotype ( WOPC, 1).

DIAGNOSIS: This species may be readily distinguished from the other two species of the panus group by the dense line of decumbent white setae on the sides of the frons.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.0– 4.5 mm; width 1.8 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Side margins of frons with narrow line of dense white setae; dorsum prominently vest ed with dark setae, body sides and legs with abundance of white setae. Head: Frontal umbo and interocular depressions prominent; eyes subspherical, moderately convex; width across eyes equal to width across pronotum (35:35). Thorax: Pronotum as long as wide (37:37), narrower than width of elytra across humeri (37:80), finely punctate, anterior transverse depression well developed; elytra short, boldly convex, depth at humerus 40, greatest depth in posterior half 70; metafemur expanded, extended beyond elytral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium posterior margin evenly arcuate in both sexes; aedeagus as in figure 206.

VARIATION: No noteworthy variation was noted in the two available specimens.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available beetles were collected during October on Pentaclethra macroloba .

DISTRIBUTION (map 25): Known only from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: I take pleasure in naming this species to recognize the outstanding contribution that Henry Hespenheide has made to our understanding of beetle mimicry.