Aphelocerus inbatus, 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 : 98

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493152
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9960-1101-FF1D-FE63FC78FE3B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus inbatus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus inbatus , new species Figures 56 View Figs , 212 View Figs , 229, map 25

HOLOTYPE: Male. Costa Rica, Puntren., San Vito , Las Alturas, 1500 m, XII. 1991, Hanson & Godoy ( MUCR). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; MUCR repository label; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

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

DIAGNOSIS: The absence of a distinct pair of setal tufts on the frons easily distinguishes these beetles from others of the myrmecoides species group.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 5.0– 5.5 mm; width 3.3–3.6 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Pronotal, metepisternal, and sutural tufts well developed; dorsum predominantely vested with dark setae; legs predominantly vested with pale setae. Head: Genae and epicranium expanded, gena behind eyes wrinkled; interocular depression and frontal umbo shallow; frons, epicranium, and gena very finely punctate; eyes subspherical, moderately convex; width across eyes equal to width across pronotum (41:41); antenna as in figs. 56, 229. Thorax: Pronotum elongate (41:45), considerably narrower than width of elytra across humeri (41:54), finely, sparsely punctate, side margin feebly arcuate, anterior transverse depression indistinct; elytra short, notably convex; elytral depth at humerus 20, greatest depth in posterior half 30; legs notably elongate, metafemur extended beyond elytral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium posterior margin evenly arcuate in both sexes. Male genitalia: As in figur 212.

VARIATION: The 11th antennomere varies in shape (compare figs. 56, 229).

NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens were collected during December at 1500 m.

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

ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name inbatus is a Latin compound adjective that stems from the prefix in (without) and batus (bush). I refer to the absence of a welldefined setal tuft on the frons present in specimens of closely related species.