Aphelocerus citimus, 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 : 37-38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493138
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9925-1145-FD5A-FC06FBFBF913
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus citimus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus citimus , new species Figures 53 View Figs , 123 View Figs ; map 21

HOLOTYPE: Male. Mexico, Ver., Jalapa , Botanical Gardens, 9 June 1983, 1320 m, C. & L. O’Brien & G. B. Marshall ( LACM). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, hand printed; support card, white, locality label, white, machine printed; LACM repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: The available specimen superficially resembles the member of A. inconstans (Gorham) , but in citimus beetles the lower aspects of the pronotum lack the dense aggregate of the white setae.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 6.2 mm; width 2.2 mm. Integument: Cranium, pronotum, pterothorax, and abdomen cyanescent; elytra and legs black. Vestiture: Apical half of elytra densely vested with patch of variously oriented setae; legs vested with white setae. Head: Interocular depressions and frontal umbo shallow; width across eyes equal to width across pronotum (40:40); antenna as in figure 53. Thorax: Pronotum longer than wide (47:40), considerably narrower than width of elytra across humerus (40:50), anterior transverse depression well developed, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra shallow, depth at humerus 20, greatest depth in posterior half 25. Abdomen: Male pygidium with posterior margin evenly arcuate. Male genitalia: As in figure 123.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected in June, at 1320 m.

DISTRIBUTION (map 21): Southeastern Mexico.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin citimus (nearest). I refer to the superficial resemblance between specimens of A. citimus n.sp., and those of A. inconstans (Gorham) .