Priocera crista 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 : 1174

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-6231-8A6F-DA81-E0FF7D13A23E

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scientific name

Priocera crista OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera crista OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 40 View Figs 34-42 , 89 View Figs 89 , 126 View Figs 124-127 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Colombia: Boyaca, SFF Iquaque La Planada, Malaise , 13-XI-4-XII- 2000, P. Reina ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Colombia: Departamento de Bolivar, SFF Los Colorados Alto, El Mirador, 3-18- VIII- 2001, 400 m, E. Deulufeut ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Mostly black; antennae testaceous; pronotal arch and legs dark castaneous, except distal limits of tibiae and tarsi testaceous; elytral apical 1/4 th testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one oblong at middle of basal margin, one transverse, premedial near epipleural margin, one transverse, postmedial near sutural margin, abdomen bicolorous, ventrites I-IV dark brown, ventrites V-VI testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 10.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 126 View Figs 124-127 . Head: Cranium finely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/30. Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, with 2 tumescenses, slight slit at middle ( PW /PL 95/140); elytral disc sculptured with longitudinal ridge and striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral posterior 3/4 th, apex rounded ( EL /EW 430/70); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 40. View Figs 34-42

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 August and November, in a Malaise trap set at 400 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 89 View Figs 89 ): The species is known from Colombia.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, crista, 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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