Aphelocerus domus, 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 : 62

Aphelocerus domus , new species

50, 96, 223, 232; map 25

HOLOTYPE: Female. Mexico. Chiapas, 4 km N. Ocozocoautla, 900 m, June 20, 1991, beating trop. decid. forest, J. & E. Beird ( LACM). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point; white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, bordered in black; collector/natural history label, white, bordered in black, ma­ chine printed; LACM repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and ovipositor.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: This specimen is superficially very similar to those of A. coactus , n.sp., from which they may be separated by the lack of densely distributed white setae on the distal third of the elytra. Also, in A. domus , n.sp., specimens the female pygidium is not trigonal, which is the case in A. coactus , n.sp., specimens (compare figs. 95, 96).

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 2.1 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Integument densely vested with prominent light and dark setae; elytral middiscal setal tuft comprised of two patches, anterior and posterior patches approximately equal in size. Head: Finely punctate; interocular depressions and frontal umbo moderately developed; eyes oval, moderately convex; width across eyes slightly narrower than width across pronotum (33:38); antenna (fig. 223) shorter than length of pronotum (30:40). Thorax: Pronotum slightly longer than broad (40:38); disc finely punctate, subapical depression faintly visible, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 20, greatest depth in posterior half 30; elytral middiscal setal patch as in figure 232. Abdomen: Posterior margin of female pygidium evenly arcuate.

VARIATION: Not studied.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected in June, by beating within a deciduous forest located at an altitude of 900 m.

DISTRIBUTION (map 25): Known only from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name is a Latin noun meaning roof. I refer to the moderate convexity of the elytra.