Priocera cocha 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 : 1171

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274620

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-6236-8A68-DA81-E0157D13A3EE

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scientific name

Priocera cocha OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera cocha OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 36 View Figs 34-42 , 89 View Figs 89 , 122 View Figs 120-123 )

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Ecuador: 28 km NE Campo Cocha , 15-30-III-2001, F. Hovore ( WFBM) . PARATYPE: one specimen. Ecuador: Provincia de Sucumbios, Shushufindi, 11- VIII- 1997, 215 m, Fred G. Andrews ( CSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: Mostly testaceous; elytra tricolorous, each elytron with small dark brown spots, one at humerus, one premedial, proximal to epipleural margin, 2 near middle, flanking yellow transverse spot, a faintly visible brown fascia at posterior 3/4 th, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at base near mesoscutellum, one premedial near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 122 View Figs 120-123 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 22/22. Thorax: Pronotun with 2 tumescenses, disc finely punctate ( PW /PL 65/95); elytral disc with very conspicuous basal carina, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 215/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 36. 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 March and August, one at 215 m.

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

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

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

CSCA

California State Collection of Arthropods

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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