Priocera nubes 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 : 1190

Priocera nubes OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 64, 93, 153)

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: GUATEMALA: Suchitepéquez, Zapotitlan, 1525 meters, Finca Las Nubes, 16 June ’73, Ginter Ekis ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Costa Rica: Provincia de Puntarenas, Las Alturas de Cotón, 19-IV-2003, E. G. Riley ( TAMU).

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black; antennae testaceous; pterothorax black; elytra tricolored, large centrally located testaceous marking, apical 1/4 th testaceous; each elytron with one testaceous spot at middle of basal margin, remainder of elytral disc black; legs mostly black, distal limit of tibiae and tarsi testaceous; abdominal ventrites I-III black, ventrites IV-VI yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 153 . Head: Cranium wrinkled; frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 35/10. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 80/125); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral posterior 3/4 th, apex rounded ( EL /EW 330/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 64.

V a r i a t i o n: The available specimens are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during April and June, the holotype at 1,525 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 ): The species is known from Guatemala and Costa Rica.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, nubes, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs 93. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 152-155. Habitus. Priocera turnbowinov.sp. (152), P.nubesnov.sp.(153), P.odegaardi nov.sp. (154), P. pallens (155).