Priocera ipeti 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 : 1180

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274644

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-620F-8A51-DA81-E0427CCDA3C9

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scientific name

Priocera ipeti OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera ipeti OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 50, 93, 138)

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: PANAMA, Bayano dist. 20 km W Ipeti, Apr 30-May-3-1992, E. Giesbert, coll. ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Panamá: Provincia de Panamá, km 7.5-9 Llano-Carti road, 28-VII-1995, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien ( JNRC).

D i a g n o s i s: Testaceous, except each elytron with 2 yellow spots, one, triangular premedial, proximal to epipleural margin, one postmedial, oblique near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.1 mm. Form: As in Fig. 138 View Figs 136-139 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 22/22. Thorax: Pronotum with 2 tumescenses, disc finely punctate ( PW /PL 62/90); elytra swollen at base, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, asetiferous punctures oblong ( EL /EW 195/35); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 50.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during May, the paratype during July.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 View Figs 93 ): This species is known from Panamá.

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

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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