Priocera mixtura OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1189

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274662

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Priocera mixtura OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera mixtura OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 63, 98, 151)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Bolivia, Plazuela to Inquisivi,?-XIII-1984 (collector not noted) ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, prothorax, and pterothorax castaneous; antennae, proximal 1/2 of femora, distal 1/2 of tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolored, basal 3/4 th admixture of white and brown coloration, asetiferous punctures brown, apical 1/5 th white; abdomen brown

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 151 View Figs 148-151 . Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, carinose, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/20). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely sculptured, carinose, with 2 very prominent tumescenses and centrally located fissure ( PW /PL 85/130); elytral disc sculptured with substriate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 360/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 63.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during August.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 98 View Figs 98 ): The species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, mixtura, is a Latin word that stems from miscreo (= mix); I refer to the admixture of colors on the elytral disc.

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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