Pujoliclerus testudinatus, 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 : 1017

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809315

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D86F-FFE0-3CB4-FDA1313BFE4D

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scientific name

Pujoliclerus testudinatus
status

nov.sp.

Pujoliclerus testudinatus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 21 View Figs 1-27 , 137 View Figs 134-152 , 253 View Figs 249-254 , 348)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res. 30 km (air) sw Pto. Maldonado, 290 m, 12°50'S 069°20'W. A second label reads: Smithsonian Institution Canopy Fogging Project, T. L. Erwin et al. colls., 09Mar84, 04/02/06. A third label reads: FOGGING, 0042035 ( USNM) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 2 specimens. Peru: Provincia de Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Reserve , 30 km SW Puerto Maldonado, 8-IX-1983, T. L. Erwin ( USNM, 1; WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: In specimens of this species, the epicranium and the pronotal arch are black, the pronotum proper is yellow, and the elytral disc is almost completely dark brown with the epipleural margin and elytral apex yellow. The combination of these characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 348 View Figs 346-349 . Color: Cranium mostly yellow, epicranium black; antenna black; prothorax mostly yellow, pronotal arch black; pterothorax and abdomen dark brown; legs mostly yellow, base of tibiae and tarsi dark brown; elytra mostly dark brown, epipleural margin and elytral apex yellow. Head: Antenna ( Fig. 21 View Figs 1-27 ) capitate, most funicular antennomeres triangular, 6 th antennomeres particularly robust; capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 25/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 137 View Figs 134-152 ) transverse (PW/PL 70/65), disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 9 striae of asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 200/55). Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 253. View Figs 249-254

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected by fogging tree canopy, during March.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, testudinatus, is a Latin name with the meaning of "arched"; with reference to the well-developed pronotal arch.

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Pujoliclerus

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