Aphelocerus ebenus, 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 : 75

Aphelocerus ebenus , new species Figure 205 ; map 25

HOLOTYPE: Male. Panama: Pma. Pr., Llano­ Carti Rd. , Km. ­10, El. 350 m, 31 May 983, Stockwell ( STRI). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, hand printed; support card, white, locality label, white, machine printed; STRI repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: Two specimens from the same locality as the holotype, except one specimen collected in the vicinity of km 9 on Llano­ Carti Rd, 4­IX­1982 ( WOPC, 2).

DIAGNOSIS: The more convex outer margins of the pronotum will separate the members of this species from the very similar specimens of A. turnbowi , n.sp. Further, the parameres are significantly narrower in A. ebenus , n.sp., than they are in A. turnbowi , n.sp.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.0– 4.5 mm; width 1.5–2.0 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Middiscal elytral setal tuft comprised of two patches, anterior patch elongate, oblique, posterior patch reduced. Head: Interocular depressions and frontal umbo prominent; width across eyes subequal to width across pronotum (30:35); antenna as in figure 74 for A. catie , n.sp. Thorax: Pronotum as long as wide (35:35), considerably narrower than width of elytra across humerus (35:47), anterior transverse depression, moderately impressed, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 15, greatest depth in posterior half 20. Abdomen: Male pygidium subtrigonal, posterior margin short. Male genitalia: As in figure 205.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimens were collected in May or September, at 350 m.

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

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet ebenus (of ebony, black) is a Latin adjectival. I refer to the integumentary color of these beetles.

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.