Priocera acrobela 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 : 1156-1157

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274588

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-6227-8A7E-DA81-E1E57E47A50B

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scientific name

Priocera acrobela OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera acrobela OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 25 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 100 View Figs 100-103 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: SAN ANTONIO de los Altos, m. 1300, (Edo. Miranda, Venezuela). A second label reads: 15-VI-1964, leg. BORDON ( WOPC) . PARATYPES: 19 specimens. Panamá: Provincia de Panamá, Cerro Campana, 29-VI-1974, C. W. & L. O’Brien & Marshall ( WOPC, 1). Venezuela: Estado de Aragua , Tiara , 21-V-1967, 1,200 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) ; Rancho Grande , 10-IV-1973, 1,100 m, G. Ekis ( BMNH, 1; OXUM, 1; SDEI, 1; SMTD, 1) ; idem, 20 km N Maracay , 22-30-IV-1972, 1,130 m, C. T. Collins ( CASC, 1) ; idem: 6-IsV-1978, 1,100 -1,500, O’Brien & Marshall ( JNRC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 13- VIII- 1988, 1,200 -1,400 m, C. W. & L. O’Brien & Wibmer ( CMNH, 1) GoogleMaps ; Estado de Miranda, San Antonio de los Altos , 24-XII-1963, 1,300 m, C. Bordón ( AMNH, 1) ; idem, 2-I-1964, C. Bordón ( MCZC, 1) ; idem, 5-V-1963, C. Bordón ( CSCA, 1) ; Estado de Distrito Capital , Caracas,?-?-1921, A. J. C. Rojas ( USNM, 1) ; Los Venados, Parque Nacional Avila , 11- VIII- 1968, 1,600 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) ; idem, 20- VIII- 1967, 1,600 m, Bordón ( ZMHB, 1) ; 11- VIII- 1968, 1,600 m, C. Bordón ( FMNH, 1) ; El Limón , 20-VI-1965, 1,800 m, C. Bordón ( FSCA, 1) ; Estado de Mérida, 6 km E Las Cruces, 13-VII-1986, R. S. Miller ( WFBM, 1). Colombia: Departamento de Huila , Parque Nacional Puracé, 1-VI-1972,2,300 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody and pterothorax castaneous; antenna testaceous; elytra tricolorous, ground color with admixture of testaceous and brown markings, elytral apex yellow; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base, one positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin; legs mostly castaneous, proximal region of femora and distal region of tibiae testaceous, upper margin of femoral capitulum castaneous, tarsi testaceous; abdomen testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 100 View Figs 100-103 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 37/7). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 70/110); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 3/4 th ( EL /EW 320/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 25. View Figs 25-33

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 6.0-8.0 mm; width 1.8-2.0 mm. The yellow spots on the elytral disc may be white.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 View Figs 91 ): This species is known from Panamá, Colombia, and Venezuela.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, acrobela, stems from the Greek belos (= arrow). I refer to the arrow-like shape of the phallobase.

CMNH

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

CSCA

California State Collection of Arthropods

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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