Plocamocera onorei, OPITZ, 2004

OPITZ, WESTON, 2004, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part Ii. The Genera Chaetophloeus Opitz And Plocamocera Spinola, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2004 (280), pp. 1-82 : 53-54

Plocamocera onorei , new species Figure 165; map 7

HOLOTYPE: Female. Ecuador: Napo: Yasuni Research Station , 19–30 Oct. 1998, 250 m, W. J. Hanson ( QCAZ). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; locality label, white, machine printed; QCAZ repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: Within the coactilis species group, these beetles may be conveniently identified by the combination of antenno­ mere eight ovate and protibial anterior margin with two spines.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Integument: Cranium piceous; pronotum piceous, periphery castaneous; elytra variegated, flavotestaceous humeral macula reduced, very faintly connected to more posterior bifurcated macula, postmedial macula faintly developed proximal to epipleural margin, three irregular pale setal fascia, anterior setal fascia proximal to sutural margin, with admixture of golden­yellow, pale, and piceous setae; legs bicolorous, profemur predominantly flavotestaceous, very faintly infuscat­ ed on anterior surface, metafemur flavotestaceous, feebly infuscated near apex. Head: Antennal club as in figure 165. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin only feebly projected at middle; discal swelling only faintly tumescent, pronotal arch finely punctated; elytral epipleural margin with four conspicuous trichobothria. Abdomen: Female pygidium broad­trigonal.

VARIATION: Not observed.

NATURAL HISTORY: The only available specimen was collected from the type­locality, during October, at 250 m.

DISTRIBUTION (map 7): Known only from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name represents a noun in apposition and refers to Professor Giovanni Onore, an Ecuadorian Entomologist very devoted to the advancement of Ecuadorian insect systematics and to the growth of the insect collection at the Catholic Pontifical University of Quito, in Ecuador.