Priocera ipeti OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1180

Priocera ipeti OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 50, 93, 138)

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: PANAMA, Bayano dist. 20 km W Ipeti, Apr 30-May-3-1992, E. Giesbert, coll. ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Panamá: Provincia de Panamá, km 7.5-9 Llano-Carti road, 28-VII-1995, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien ( JNRC).

D i a g n o s i s: Testaceous, except each elytron with 2 yellow spots, one, triangular premedial, proximal to epipleural margin, one postmedial, oblique near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.1 mm. Form: As in Fig. 138 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 22/22. Thorax: Pronotum with 2 tumescenses, disc finely punctate ( PW /PL 62/90); elytra swollen at base, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, asetiferous punctures oblong ( EL /EW 195/35); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 50.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during May, the paratype during July.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 ): This species is known from Panamá.

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

Figures

Figs 93. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 136-139. Habitus. Priocera hadrosa nov.sp. (136), P. hovorei nov.sp. (137), P. ipeti nov.sp. (138), P. katarubella nov.sp. (139).