Priocera aurosignata LUCAS , 1857

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 : 1159-1160

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039004

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Priocera aurosignata LUCAS , 1857
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Priocera aurosignata LUCAS, 1857 ( Figs 29 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 107 View Figs 104-107 )

Priocera aurosignata LUCAS, 1857: 92 .

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Nord de Goyas (Goias, Brazil) ( MNHN).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig.91 View Figs 91 ):Iexaminedfivespecimens from: Peru: Provincia de San Martin, Tarapoto,?-V-VIII-1886, M. de Mathan. Brazil: Estado do Minas Gerais, Sertão in: Bolivia: Bolivia, 1989, Guanay, N. La Paz, 19.-21. VIII, MNHN, RGCM and WOPC.

D i a g n o s i s: Light castaneous, except extremities of legs, abdomen, and elytral apex testaceous, and elytra bicolored, mostly castaneous, each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one large triangular marking at middle conjoined with epipleural margin, one spot behind elytral middle near sutural margin.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 107 View Figs 104-107 . Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/8. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 95/140); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures extended posteriorly slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 340/70); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 29. View Figs 25-33

N o t e s: The type was examined, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

Loc

Priocera aurosignata LUCAS , 1857

Opitz, Weston 2021
2021
Loc

Priocera aurosignata

LUCAS P 1857: 92
1857
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