Priocera aperturosa 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 : 1157-1158

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5038994

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFFB-FFC4-7982-2592FD7DFF46

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scientific name

Priocera aperturosa OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera aperturosa OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 27 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 105 View Figs 104-107 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande, 6-VI-01973, G. Ekis ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: Two specimens. México : Estado de Chiapas, Las Rosas, at lights, 12-III-1963, R. C. Bechtel, E. I. Schlinger ( EMEC) ; 6 km NW Teopisca , 30-VI-1-VII-1977, 1.830 m, E. M. Fisher ( WFBM) .

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antenna testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5 th, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one spheroid at middle of basal margin, one premedial irregularly shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse, postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 105 View Figs 104-107 . Head: Frons wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 32/26. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, coarsely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 95/130); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral apex, latter rounded ( EL /EW 340/80); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Inner ventral margin of phallobasic lobe with spine; aedeagus as in Fig. 27. View Figs 25-33

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0- 9.5 mm; width 2.0-3.0 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: Specimens were collected during March and June, the holotype at 1,000 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 View Figs 91 ): The species is known from México and Venezuela.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, aperturosa, is a compound name that stems from the Latin aperture (= hole) and the suffix - osus (= abundance). I refer to the extensive distribution of the asetiferous punctures on the elytral disc.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

EMEC

Essig Museum of Entomology

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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