Priocera colima 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 : 1171-1172

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039036

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFED-FFD2-7982-24CAFF7AFD08

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scientific name

Priocera colima OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera colima OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 37 View Figs 34-42 , 95 View Figs 95 , 123 View Figs 120-123 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: MEXICO, Jalisco, E, slope Nev. De Colima, 14 mi. SW Cd. Guzman , 8000 ft., VI-25-VII-6-65, E. M. Fisher collector ( WFBM).

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one faintly visible at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.2 mm; width 1.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 123 View Figs 120-123 . Head: Cranium wrinkled; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 25/15). Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled, with 2 tumescenses, center of disc depressed, center near base with small linear swelling ( PW /PL 70/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 3/4 th ( EL /EW 320/55); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 37. View Figs 34-42

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during a time frame from June 25 to July 6, at 2,439 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 95 View Figs 95 ): This species is known from México.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, colima, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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