Priocera angulata SCHENKLING , 1900

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 : 1157

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Priocera angulata SCHENKLING , 1900
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Priocera angulata SCHENKLING, 1900 ( Figs 26 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 101 View Figs 100-103 )

Priocera angulata SCHENKLING, 1900: 387 .

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Goyaz , Bras. (Goias, Brazil) ( SDEI) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Goias, Jatai,?- XII-1997 -?- I-1998, collector not noted ( SDEI).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig.91 View Figs 91 ): Inadditiontothetypes, I examined 8 specimens from: Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso, Sinop ,?- X-1975, M.Alvarenga ; Rio Caraguata ,?- XII- 1953, 400 m, F. Plaumann ; Estado do Mato Grosso do Sur, Trés Lagoas , International Paper , Rio Verde , 30-XI-1993, ethanol baited FIT, cerrado fragment, Flechtman ; Estado do Rondonia, 7 km E Costa Marques, 11-23-IV-1977, Malaise trap, T. Kline ; Estado do Goias, Jatai ,?- XII-1897 - I-1898, collector not noted ; idem, Mineiro ,?-?-1912, H. Donckier ; Rio Verde ,?-?-1908, G. A. Baer. Specimens are deposited in: MNHM, SDEI, UEPB, USNM, and WOPC .

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except elytra bicolorous, mostly castaneous, with yellow speckles in basal 1/2, apical 1/2 with oblique yellow angular fascia at middle and short yellow oblique line in front of apex; legs bicolorous, distal 1/2 of femora and proximal 1/2 of tibiae testaceous, distal 1/2 of femora and distal 1/2 of tibiae and tarsi dark brown.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 2.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 101 View Figs 100-103 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 65/20. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 130//170); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 460/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 26. View Figs 25-33

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0-12.0 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. The yellow speckles on the elytral disc may be white.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during April, September, and October, from southern Brazil at 400 m.

MNHM

John May Museum of Natural History

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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Priocera angulata SCHENKLING , 1900

Opitz, Weston 2021
2021
Loc

Priocera angulata

SCHENKLING S 1900: 387
1900
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