Priocera ensis 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 : 1175-1176

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039048

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFE9-FFD6-7982-25DAFD22FE23

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scientific name

Priocera ensis OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera ensis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 43, 89, 130)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Equeteur , Soja ( Ecuador), COLL DE GAULLE, 1910 ( MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black, thorax dark castaneous; antenna, legs and abdomen testaceous; elytra mostly dark castaneous, apical 1/4 th testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base, one in front of middle near epipleural margin, one behind middle near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 130 View Figs 128-131 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than width of eye and length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 47/57). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 79/107); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend just beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 400/110); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter towards femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 43.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, ensis, is a Latin noun with the meaning of "sword"; with reference to the shape of the aedeagus.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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