Priocera gibberis 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 : 1178

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039068
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFD6-FFE8-7982-20D7FC2FFFD0
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Priocera gibberis OPITZ
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Priocera gibberis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 47, 89, 134)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BRÉSIL, ET DE SAO PAULO, VAL DU RIO PARDO, E. Gounelle, 12-98 ( MNHN) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Minas Gerais,?-?-1885, E. Gounelle ( WOPC, 1).

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except posterior pronotal angles testaceous; antenna testaceous, pterothorax, legs, and abdomen castaneous; elytra tricolorous, mostly black, diagonal testaceous line projecting posteriorly from humeral angle, apex testaceous, each elytral disc with 3 yellow spots, one diagonal at middle of elytral base, one premedial, near epipleural margin, and one small transverse marking behind middle approaching sutural margin, elytral tumescence castaneous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm. Form: As in Fig. 134 View Figs 132-135 . Head: Frons broader than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 30/13. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, pronotum with 2 tumescenses and small central depression ( PW /PL 70/100); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, swollen in basal 1/4 th, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 260/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male abdominal ventrite V broadly emarginate in posterior margin; pygidium narrowly emarginate; aedeagus as in Fig. 47; phallobasic arch as long as remainder of phallobase.

V a r i a t i o n: The castaneous making on the elytral tumescence is more pronounced in the specimen from Minas Gerais.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during December.

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

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, gibberis, is a Latin adjective that stems from gibber (= swollen). I refer to the swollen condition of the basal 1/4 th of the elytral disc.