Priocera odegaardi 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 : 1190-1191

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039108

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Priocera odegaardi OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera odegaardi OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 65, 93, 154)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: PANAMA: Panama, Pr. Nat. Metropolitano, 26 June 1993, leg. F. Odegaard. A second label reads: On Ficus insipida (FSCA) . PARATYPES: 2 specimens. Costa Rica: Provincia de Cartago, Turrialba, no other information available ( USNM). Panamá: Panamá, Parque Nacional Metropolitano, 26-VI-1995, F. Ødegaard ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Color: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, anterior and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, mesofemora and metafemora infuscated along dorsal margin, tibiae brown, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, with broad, testaceous diagonal marking extending obliquely from humeral angle, apical 1/2 testaceous, except with narrow, faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one spot at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one spot oblong, diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one faintly visible spot behind middle near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.1 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 154 View Figs 152-155 . Head: Eyes very large; frons very narrow, narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 30/3). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 48/80); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 65.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.1-8.2 mm; width 1.0- 1.7 mm. Other than body size, the available beetles are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during June. Frode Ødegaard collected two specimens on Ficus incipida WILLD. ( Moraceae ).

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, odegaardi, is a patronymic that honors Frode Ødegaard for his many contributions to Entomology.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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