Pujoliclerus maracayensis Opitz, 2014

Opitz, Weston, 2014, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Checkered Beetle GenusPujoliclerusPic (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 68 (4), pp. 727-756 : 727-756

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.727

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543866

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pujoliclerus maracayensis Opitz
status

sp. nov.

Pujoliclerus maracayensis Opitz , new species ( Figs. 22 View Figs , 49 View Figs , 93 View Figs , 126)

Holotype. ♀. VENEZ: Aragua, Maracay, Rancho Grande, 11-30.XII.87, B. D. Gill ( FSCA).

Diagnosis. Within the maracayensis speciesgroup, only in specimens of this species are the elytra mostly yellow and the elytral apex black.

Description. Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 93 View Figs . Integument: Cranium mostly black, lower frons and venter yellow; pronotum reddish yellow, infuscated at base; elytra mostly yellow, infuscated at base and in apical region; femora decreasingly infuscated from profemur to metafemur; tibiae increasingly more yellow from protibia to metatibia; pterothorax and abdomen brown. Head: Eyes as wide as frons (14:14); funicular antennomeres conspicuously expanded, 6 th antennomere large ( Fig. 22 View Figs ). Thorax: Pronotum transverse (39:35), lateral tubercle very prominent ( Fig. 49 View Figs ); epipleural fold gradually narrowed to elytral apex, asetiferous punctures prominent to elytral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus not available.

Natural History. The holotype was collected during December.

Distribution. Known only from Venezuela ( Fig. 126).

Etymology. The trivial name indicates the origin of the holoype and honors the good people of Maracay, Venezuela.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Pujoliclerus

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