Priocera stockwelli 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 : 1199-1200

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274677

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-621A-8A45-DA81-E7457F05A586

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scientific name

Priocera stockwelli OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera stockwelli OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 99 View Figs 99 , 165 View Figs 164-167 )

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Brazil: Mto. Grosso, Humboldt , El 200m, 10°25'S 59°28'W, 20 Mar.’77 Stockwell ( AMNH) GoogleMaps . PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Pará, Serra Norte, Manganês, Armadilha, 6-9-II-1985, 1.6 m, Suspense ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; antennae testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter testaceous, pronotum bicolorous, slight testaceous area in front and at sides, pronotal arch mostly testaceous, pronotal collar testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra tricolorous, basal 2/3 rd mostly castaneous, humeral carina black, apical 1/3 rd mostly black, large spherical, testaceous spot near apex; each elytron with 2 yellow fascia, one premedial outlined in black, one post medial.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.6 mm. Form: As in Fig. 165 View Figs 164-167 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 40/10. Thorax: Pronotun with 2 tumescenses, disc finely punctate ( PW /PL 75/120); elytral disc with very conspicuous linear basal carina, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 280/50); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to apex. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

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 February and March, one at 200 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 99 View Figs 99 ): This species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, stockwelli, is a dedicative patronym that honors Henry P. Stockwell for his contribution to field insect Taxonomy.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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