Plocamocera insula, OPITZ, 2004
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2004)280<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B087FF-FF95-FFF4-FF37-FD17A30345E8 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Plocamocera insula |
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sp. nov. |
Plocamocera insula , new species Figures 167, 208 View Figs ; map 7
HOLOTYPE: Female. Trinidad: St. George Co : Arima Ward, Simla (N.Y. Zool. Soc. Sta.), 11VI77, on dead twig, E. E. Grissell ( FSCA). (Specimen point mounted, antenna and sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed, collectors label, white, machine printed, natural history label, white, machine printed; FSCA repository label, white; holotype label, red, machine printed.)
PARATYPES: None.
DIAGNOSIS: Configuration of the antennomeres distinguishes specimens of this species from superficially similar specimens of P. sericellopsis ; in P. insula beetles, antennomere eight is abruptly narrowed distally, whereas in P. sericellopsis specimens antennomere eight narrows gradually.
DESCRIPTION: Size: Length: 5.1 mm; width 2.0 mm. Integument: Cranium predominantly castaneous, frons and vertex narrowly piceous; pronotum castaneous; elytra variegated, humerus flavotestaceous, pale setae arranged into three irregular fascia; legs bicolorous, predominantly flavotestaceous, femora and tibiae infuscated. Head: Antennal club as in figure 167. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin moderately projected at middle; pronotal disc with two prominent swellings; elytral epipleural margin with six conspicuous trichobothria; protibia anterior margin with three spines. Abdomen: Female pygidium broad scutiform.
VARIATION: Not observed.
NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected from the type locality during June, ‘‘on dead twig’’.
ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name insula is a Latin noun meaning ‘‘island’’. I refer to the type locality.
| FSCA |
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology |
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