Aphelocerus sculptillus, 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 : 50-51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9930-1152-FC9E-FC06FF44FB05
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus sculptillus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

SCULPTILLUS GROUP Aphelocerus sculptillus , new species Figures 137 View Figs , 198 View Figs , 217, 240; map 27

HOLOTYPE: Female. Panama: Panama, Cerro Campana , 645 m, 1I2002, W. Opitz ( MIUP). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine print ed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; MIUP repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: Ten specimens. Panama: Cocle: Altos de Campana , 26IV1996, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1; WOPC, 1) ; El Valle , 29IV 1992, E. Giesbert ( FSCA, 1; WOPC, 2) ; 10– 13VI1985, E. Riley & D. Rider ( LSUC, 1): Cerro Campana , 7I1994 ( JEWC, 1) ; 17V 1999 ( RFMC, 1) ; 625 m, 25VI1995, H. Stockwell ( STRI, 1) ; 820 m, 10VII1982, H. Stockwell ( WOPC, 1) .

DIAGNOSIS: The elytral middiscal setal tuft is comprised of one large patch whose setae are directed anteriorly (fig. 240). This feature will distinguish A. sculptillus , n.sp., specimens from all other aphelocerans with a microsculptured pronotal disc.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.2–5.0 mm; 2.0– 2.2 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Integument densely vested with prominent light and dark setae; elytral sutural tuft well developed, extended to elytral basal third; elytral middiscal tuft comprised of one large transverse patch whose setae are directed anteriorly. Head: Finely punctate; interocular depressions and frontal umbo shallow; eyes, oval moderately convex; width across eyes about equal to width across pronotum (31: 34); antenna (fig. 217) much shorter than length of pronotum (28:35). Thorax: Pronotum about as long as wide (35:34), disc finely punctated and very finely microsculptured, subapical depression poorly defined, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 35, greatest depth in posterior half 50. Abdomen: Posterior margin of pydigium evenly arcuate in female; feebly sinuous in male. Male genitalia: As in figure 198; parameral apices less accuminate than in A. sabulous , n.sp. specimens.

VARIATION: There is some variation in the development of the basal accumination of the parameres.

NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens have been collected during January, April, May, and June, from 625 to 820 m; one by beating roadside vegetation.

DISTRIBUTION (map 27): Known only from Central Panama.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a Latin compound name derived from sculpto (carve) and the diminuative suffix illus. I refer to the minute microsculpture on the pronotal disc.