Priocera odegaardi OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1190-1191

Priocera odegaardi OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 65, 93, 154)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: PANAMA: Panama, Pr. Nat. Metropolitano, 26 June 1993, leg. F. Odegaard. A second label reads: On Ficus insipida (FSCA) . PARATYPES: 2 specimens. Costa Rica: Provincia de Cartago, Turrialba, no other information available ( USNM). Panamá: Panamá, Parque Nacional Metropolitano, 26-VI-1995, F. Ødegaard ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Color: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, anterior and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, mesofemora and metafemora infuscated along dorsal margin, tibiae brown, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, with broad, testaceous diagonal marking extending obliquely from humeral angle, apical 1/2 testaceous, except with narrow, faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one spot at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one spot oblong, diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one faintly visible spot behind middle near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.1 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 154 . Head: Eyes very large; frons very narrow, narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 30/3). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 48/80); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 65.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.1-8.2 mm; width 1.0- 1.7 mm. Other than body size, the available beetles are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during June. Frode Ødegaard collected two specimens on Ficus incipida WILLD. ( Moraceae ).

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 ): This species is known from Costa Rica and Panamá.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, odegaardi, is a patronymic that honors Frode Ødegaard for his many contributions to Entomology.

Figures

Figs 93. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 152-155.Habitus. Priocera turnbowi nov.sp. (152), P.nubes nov.sp.(153),P.odegaardi nov.sp. (154), P. pallens (155).