Priocera denticarea 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 : 1174-1175

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532185

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFEA-FFD7-7982-259AFEB4FF63

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scientific name

Priocera denticarea OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera denticarea OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 41 View Figs 34-42 , 93 View Figs 93 , 127 View Figs 124-127 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: HONDURAS: Dept. Atlantida, Tela, Lancetilla Botanical Gardens , 28- V-1993, M. C. Thomas ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: 5 specimens. Honduras: Departamento de Atlantida, Tela, Lancetilla Botanical Gardens , 28-V-1993, M. C. Thomas ( CUIC, 1; FSCA, 1; WOPC, 2) ; idem, 28-V-1993, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Specimens of this species are similar to those of Priocera stictica GORHAM and P. costaricana WOLCOTT , from which they can only be distinguished by examination of the aedeagus. In P. stictica GORHAM , the phallic plate is set with serrations and in P. costaricana the phallic apex is uncinate. Neither of these phallic characteristics are present in specimens of P. denticarea .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 127 View Figs 124-127 . Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/10). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 90/145); elytra slightly concave at middle, disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 340/60); metathoracic leg gradually increasing in diameter towards apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 41. View Figs 34-42

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0-9.0 mm; width 2.0- 2.2 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected in May.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, denticarea, is a Latin compound name that stems from denti (= tooth) and careo (= to be without). I refer to the lack of serrations on the phallic plates.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

CUIC

Cornell University Insect Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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