Priocera marajoara 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 : 1185-1186

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039092

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFDF-FFE0-7982-2514FDD4FE40

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scientific name

Priocera marajoara OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera marajoara OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 58, 92, 146)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Amazonas , Bates ( Brazil) ( BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, lower sides and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, black along dorsal margin, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, testaceous line extends backwards from humeral angle, apical 1/2 yellow except with faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 2 yellow markings, one oblong at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one triangular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 146 View Figs 144-147 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/5). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 70/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend a short distance beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 270/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidial distal margin rounded; aedeagus as in Fig. 58.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 92 View Figs 92 ): This species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, morajoara, is a patronymic that honors the Amazonian Morajoara pre-Columbian culture, which once flourished on Morajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River, in Brazil.

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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