Platynoptera carti OPITZ, 2015

Opitz, Weston, 2015, Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1513-1572 : 1542

Platynoptera carti OPITZ , nov.sp.

( Figs . 77, 125, 126 , 163 , 175 )

Holotype: ♂. Panama: Pma Pr. Llano-Carti Rd. km 9 , El. 350 m, 26-Apr.1986, H. Stockwell ( MIUP).

Diagnosis: This is the only member of Platynoptera in which the basal third of the sutural margin is distinctly black.

Description: Size: Length 9.5.0 mm; width 3.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 163 . Color: Cranium mostly black, vertex with small flavotestaceous streak; cranial venter flavotestaceous; clypeus flavotestaceous; pronotum bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, lower sides narrowly black; disc with two narrow black lines; mesoscutellum flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, black in distal third and along basal third of sutural margin. Head: Antennal capitulum long ( Fig. 77 ), each capitular antennomere longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 18/22. Thorax: Pronotum elongate, anterior margin not projected at middle, side margin of disc with shallow tubercle; PW/PL 57/64; elytral not strongly explanate at sides, carina faintly visible; EL/EW 240/67. Abdomen: Male pygidium not incised at distal margin; aedeagus ( Figs. 125, 126 ); phallic apex notably small.

Natural history: The holotype was collected during April, at 350 m.

Distribution ( Fig. 175 ): Known only from the type locality.

Etymology: The trivial name, carti, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs 70-80: Antennae. (70) Isoforma fritilla, female; (71) I. goryi, female; (72) Isoforma planata, female; (73) Pilosirus brunoi, male; (74) Isoforma subgilva, female; (75) Pilosirus amazonicus, female; (76) P. fasciatus, female; (77) Platynoptera carti, male; (78) P. flavohumeralis, male; (79) P. humeralis, male; (80) P. lyciformis, male.

Figs 109-132: Aedeagi. (109) Ambonoides retinoides phallus; (110) A. retinoides tegmen; (111) A. caraguata phallus; (112) A. caraguata tegmen; (113) Artoadenus dius phallus; (114) A. dius tegmen; (115) A. regina phallus; (116) A. regina tegmen; (117) Aspitonis alarutinis phallus; (118) A. alarutinis tegmen; (119) A. chiapas phallus; (120) A. chiapas tegmen; (121) A. undulicornis phallus; (122) A. undulicornis tegmen; (123) Isoforma biguttula phallus; (124) I. biguttula tegmen; (125) Platynoptera carti phallus; (126) P. carti tegmen; (127) P. flavohumeralis phallus; (128) P. flavohumeralis tegmen; (129) P.humeralis phallus; (130) P. humeralis tegmen;(131)P.lyciformis phallus;(132)P.lyciformis tegmen.

Figs 161-164: Habitus illustrations of (161) Pilosirus fasciatus, holotype; (162) P. versus, holotype; (163) Platynoptera carti, holotype; (164) Platynoptera flavohumeralis, holotype.

Fig. 175: Geographic distribution of species as noted.