Neorthopleura rubra, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 993

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809341
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D877-FFF8-3CB4-FC20307CFEDA
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Neorthopleura rubra
status	nov.sp.

Treatment

Neorthopleura rubra OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 122 View Figs 118-133 , 312 View Figs 310-313 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: GOYAS, RIO VERDE (Goiás, Brazil), G. a. BAER, 1908 ( MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: This is the only known species of Neorthoplera whose specimens show a completely red elytral disc. The genus Neorthopleura BARR was revised by OPITZ (2013b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 5.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 312 View Figs 310-313 . Color: Cranium, prothorax, and elytra red, except epicranium and pronotal arch with black spot; antenna, pterothorax, legs, and abdomen black. Head: Cranium densely, finely punctate; lower frons indented; antenna not available; eyes small, finely facetted, eye much narrower (female) than frons (EW/FW 45/80, female). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 122 View Figs 118-133 ) convex, transverse, arch transversely carinose at middle, disc tumescent at middle of base; side margins convex (PW/PL 135/110); elytra moderately convex, disc densely sculptured with small setiferous punctures, with 8 shallow ridges; epipleural margin abruptly terminates at elytral middle (EL/EW 680/95). Abdomen: Pygidium oblong/ scutiform.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromBrazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, rubra, is a Latin adjective with a meaning of "red"; with regard to the color of the elytral disc.