Priocera calvariola 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 : 1162-1163

Priocera calvariola OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 84, 91, 113)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 4.6 km SSE Buena Vista , F & F Hotel, 22- October- 2004, 405 m, Wappes & Morris ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: 50 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna , 17°29.949'S 63°33.152'W, 5-15-XI- 2001, 405 m, M. C. Thomas & B. K. Dozier ( AMNH, 1; CASC, 1; CMNC, 1; CMNH, 1; FMNH, 1; FSCA, 9) ; idem, 14-19-X-2000, M. C. Thomas ( TAMU, 1) ; idem, 10-29- XI-2003, B. K. Dozier ( USNM, 1) ; idem, 21-24-XI-2003, Wappes, Morris & Nearns ( ACMT, 2) ; idem, 3-8-X-2004, Wappes & Morris ( WFBM, 1) ; idem, 22-31-X-2002, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 2) ; idem, 13-16-XI-2003, Wappes, Morris & Nearns ( ACMT, 1) ; idem, 22-31- X-2002, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 1) ; 4.6 km SSE Buena Vista , 17°29.95'S 63°33.15'W, 3-14- XI-2003, 400- 500 m, S. W. Lingafelter ( ACMT, 2; USNM, 1) ; idem, 3-14-XI-2003, 400- 500 m, N. E. Woodley ( ACMT, 1) ; idem, 27-31-X-2002, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 3) ; idem, 17-20-X- 2000, R. Morris ( RFMC, 1) ; 14-17-XI-2003, Morris, Nearns, Wappes ( RFMC, 1) ; idem, 19-22- X-2004, Morris & Wappes ( JMLC, 1) ; idem, 12-V-2004, Wappes ( ACMT, 1) ; 4 km N Bermejo, Refugio Los Volcanes , 18°06'S 63°36'W, 8-11-XII-2011, 1,350 m, Wappes, Lingafelter, Morris & Woodley ( ACMT, 1) ; idem, 11-17-XII-2012, Wappes & Skillman ( ACMT, 1) ; idem, 9-XII- 2013, Skillman & Wappes ( FWSC, 1) ; idem, 9-12-XII-2011, 1,350 m, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 1) ; idem, 18-24-X-2014, 3,363 feet, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 1) ; idem, 16-21-X-2007, 18°06'S 63°36'W, J. Wappes & A. Cline ( ACMT, 2) ; Potrerillo del Guenda, 40 k NW Santa Cruz, Preserva Natural , 17°40'S 63°27'W, 30-IX-3-X- 2007, 370 m, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 2) ; idem, 10-29-XI-2006, B. K. Dozier ( CUIC, 1) ; idem, 17°40'S 63°27'W, 14-17-I- 2007, 380 m, Lingafelter, Wappes, Prena ( JMLC, 1) ; idem, 17- 22-X-2007, J. Romero ( WOPC, 1) ; Provincia del Sara ,?- XI- 1909, 450 m, J. Steinbach ( CMNH, 1) ; Buena Vista, vicinity Flora & Fauna Hotel, 17-20-X-2000, R. Morris ( RFMC, 1). Peru: Provincia de Tambopata, Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Reserva , 30 km (air) SW Puerto Maldonado, 8-XI- 1983, 290 m, Canopy Fogging, T. L. Erwin ( USNM, 1). Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso , Sinop,?- X-1976, M. Alvarenga ( WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except posterior pronotal angles yellow; antennae, pterothorax, and abdomen testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, apical 1/2 testaceous, except with narrow dark obliquely positioned line; each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one marking at middle of elytral base, one oblong, diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, and one small transverse marking behind middle approaching sutural margin; legs bicolorous, femora black distally, testaceous proximally, tibiae black, tarsi yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.8 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 113 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/3. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, pronotum with 2 tumescenses and small central slit ( PW /PL 70/110); elytra narrow, disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 225/28); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male visible abdominal ventrite V broadly emarginate in posterior margin; aedeagus as in Fig. 84.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 4.0- 7.8 mm; width 1.0-2.0 mm. The width of the frons is sex dimorphic, with males having narrower frons.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected throughout the year, at altitudes that range from 370

to 1,350 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 ): This species is known from Bolivia and Peru.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, calvariola, is a Latin noun with a meaning of "small cup". I refer to the concavity on the distal margin of the male visible abdominal sternite V.

Figures

Figs 91. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 112-115. Habitus. Priocera brunnea nov.sp. (112), P. calvariola nov.sp. (113), P. castanea (114), P. campbelli nov.sp. (115).