Priocera aurosignata LUCAS , 1857

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1159-1160

Priocera aurosignata LUCAS, 1857 ( Figs 29 , 91 , 107 )

Priocera aurosignata LUCAS, 1857: 92 .

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Nord de Goyas (Goias, Brazil) ( MNHN).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig.91 ):Iexaminedfivespecimens from: Peru: Provincia de San Martin, Tarapoto,?-V-VIII-1886, M. de Mathan. Brazil: Estado do Minas Gerais, Sertão in: Bolivia: Bolivia, 1989, Guanay, N. La Paz, 19.-21. VIII, MNHN, RGCM and WOPC.

D i a g n o s i s: Light castaneous, except extremities of legs, abdomen, and elytral apex testaceous, and elytra bicolored, mostly castaneous, each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one large triangular marking at middle conjoined with epipleural margin, one spot behind elytral middle near sutural margin.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 107 . Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/8. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 95/140); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures extended posteriorly slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 340/70); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 29.

N o t e s: The type was examined, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.

Figures

Figs 91. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 25-33. Aedeagus. Priocera acrobela (25), P. angulata(26), P. aperturosa (27), P.apicalis (28), P. aurosignata (29), P. batesi (30), P. bibulla (31), P. campbelli (32), P. catalinae (33).

Figs 104-107. Habitus. Priocera ardis nov.sp. (104), P. aperturosa nov.sp. (105), P. aspera nov.sp. (106), P. aurosignata (107).