Platycrepidius monteverde, Johnson, Paul J., 2000

Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3), pp. 284-290 : 288-289

Platycrepidius monteverde new species

Type Series. Holotype, /, labeled ‘‘ Estacion La Casona , R. B. Monteverde, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, 1500 m, Jun 1991, N. Obando, LN 253250 p 449700 #1714; CRI001694153.’’

Etymology. The species epithet ‘‘ monteverde ’’ is a geographic place name and a haven for biologists in northern Costa Rica; it is used as a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the trivittate elytra and a deep and narrow anterior emargination of the pronotal vitta. Pretarsal claws as above.

Description. Length 20.2 mm, width 6.0 mm; elongate, silhouette subfusiform, shallowly convex; integument shining, finely shallowly punctured, finely pubescent. Head rufotestaceous; frons with a shallow subtriangular impression, frontal margin obtuse, projecting over labrum; antennae narrowly serrate from segment 4, segments 1–4 brunneoflavous, segment 5 brunneoflavous basally, infuscate apically, segments 6–11 infuscate gradating to nigrous apically. Pronotum flavous laterally, rufoflavous anteriomedially, with a deeply incised broad median nigrous vitta in basal 3/4; pronotal base with short obtuse median carina on declivity; hind angles strongly divergent, obsolescently unicarinate dorsally; hypomeron flavous laterally, piceous medially, mesal margin shallowly excavate and slightly flaired anteriorly. Scutellum nigrous. Elytra flavous, nigrous on basal margin, circumscutellar area, interval 1 to apex, intervals 5– 6 and 10 from basal quarter to apex. Prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum rufoflavous medially, piceous laterally; legs rufoflavous; abdominal ventrites rufoflavous medially to base of ventrite 4, piceous mediolaterally and convergent to ventrites 4–5, flavous laterally.

Notes. This species is known from a single specimen. Males are unknown.