Aphelocerus turnbowi, OPITZ, 2005

OPITZ, WESTON, 2005, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (293), pp. 1-128 : 59-61

Aphelocerus turnbowi , new species Figures 209 , 220, 233; map 25

HOLOTYPE: Male. Panama: Chiriqui, 5 km N Hornito , 17 May 1996, R. Turnbow ( MIUP). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white machine print­ ed; support card, white; locality label, white; MIUP repository label, white, machine print­ ed; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: Sixty­two specimens, twenty seven specimens from the same locality as the holotype ( RHTC, 2; WOPC, 2) ; 15­IV­ 1996 ( RHTC, 1; WOPC, 1) ; 16­IV­1996 ( JNRC, 2; RHTC, 9; WOPC, 3) ; 17­IV­1996 ( WOPC, 1). Panama: Chiriqui: Finca La Suiza, 16­IV­1996 ( RHTC, 3) ; 6­VII­1996 ( WOPC, 1) ; 1 km SE Hornito , 28­V–2­VI­ 1994, F. Andrews and A. Gilbert, Malaise trap ( CDAE, 4; WOPC, 2) ; 2 km N Hornito , 16­VI­1994, 1200 m, A. R. Gillogly ( STRI, 1) ; vic. Hornito , 1371 m, 24–26­IV­1995, E. Giesbert ( FSCA, 1; WOPC, 1) ; vic. Hornito , 1371 m, 14–18­IV­1996, Wappes, Huether, and Morris (JEWS, 1; RFMC, 1) ; Hartmann’s Finca , 4–7­VII­1997, Wappes and Morris ( JEWS, 1) ; 18­IV­1993, E. Giesbert ( FSCA, 1) ; 6 km SE Fortuna Dam , 16–17­ IV­1992 ( FSCA, 1) ; 20­I­1992, 1100 m, H. P. Stockwell ( WOPC, 1) ; 7 km SE Fortuna Dam , 8­V­1993, Gillogly and Stockwell ( STRI, 4; WOPC, 2) ; 13­VII­1995, 1100 m, A. R. Gillogly ( STRI, 1; WOPC, 1) ; 12­V­ 1991, 1100 m, Windsor and Stockwell ( STRI, 1; WOPC, 2) ; 13­VII­1995, A. R. Gillogly ( WOPC, 1) ; 30­IV­1993, 1200 m ( STRI, 2) ; nr. Mina Cerro Colorado , 6­VIII­ 1993, 1800 m, Gillogly and Stockwell ( STRI, 1; WOPC, 1) ; vic. Chiriquicito , 365 m, 25­IV­1995, E. Giesbert ( WOPC, 1) ; Reserva Fortuna, Rio Hornito trail, 28­V­1993, F. Andrews and A. Gilbert ( CDAE, 1; WOPC, 1): Veraguas : Alto de Piedra , above Santa Fe , 850 m, 10­IV­1993, H. Stockwell ( STRI, 2; WOPC, 1) .

DIAGNOSIS: Specimens from the Panamanian Province of Chiriqui are considered to belong to this species if they have the posterior patch of the elytral middiscal setal tuft quadrate, about half the size of the anterior patch (fig. 233). Also, the posterior patch may be substantially reduced.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 3.6–5.0 mm; width 1.1–2.1 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Integument densely vested with prominent light and dark setae; elytral middiscal setal tuft comprised of two patches, posterior patch half the size of anterior patch. Head: Finely punctate; interocular depressions and frontal umbo moderately developed; eyes

oval, moderately convex; width across slightly narrower than width across pronotum (33: 43); antenna (fig. 220) shorter than length of pronotum (30:35). Thorax: Pronotum about equal in length and width (35:35), disc finely punctate, anterior transverse depression faintly visible, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra notably convex in posterior half, depth at humerus 17, greatest depth in posterior half 25. Abdomen: Posterior margin of male pygidium narrowly truncate, evenly arcuate in females. Male genitalia: Aedeagus short, tegmen as in figure 209.

VARIATION: The posterior patch of the elytral middiscal tuft varies in size, most often being rather small as shown in figure 233.

NATURAL HISTORY: The specimens examined were collected during May, June, and July, from altitudes ranging from 365 to 1371 m.

DISTRIBUTION (map 25): Known only from the highlands of Chiriqui and Varaguas, in Panama.

ETYMOLOGY: It gives me great pleasure to name this species to give credit to an outstanding beetle collector and friend of the insect systematic profession. On several occasions Dr. Turnbow took the initiative to contact me and make available his fine assortment of clerids.

Figures

Figs. 193–214. Tegmina and phalli. 193. Aphelocerus delicatulus, tegmen. 194–195. A. bispineus (194, tegmen; 195, phallus). 196. A. aeneus, tegmen. 197. A. acuticolis, tegmen. 198. A. sculptillus, tegmen. 199. A. sabulosus, tegmen. 200–201. A. akis (200, phallus; 201, tegmen). 202–203. A. chelonus (202, tegmen; 203, phallus). 204. A. scalenus, tegmen. 205. A. ebenus, tegmen. 206. A. hespenheidei, tegmen. 207–208. A. ciliaris (207, tegmen; 208, phallus). 209. A. turnbowi, tegmen. 210. A. improcerus. 211. A. anticus, tegmen. 212. A. inbatus, tegmen. 213. A. chondrus, tegmen. 214. A. monteverde. tegmen.