Pyticara frontegalba, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 974-975

Pyticara frontegalba OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 39 , 182 , 217 , 283 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: Chapada, Brazil. Acc. No. 2966. A second label reads: Nov. A third label reads: Chapada Campo ( CMNH) . Paratypes: 4 specimens. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Chapada ( WOPC, 2) ; Estado do Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso ( MNHN, 1) ; Estado do Pará, Pará ( CMNH, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pyticara SPINOLA was revised in 2015 ( OPITZ 2015a). This work included a key to species. Pyticara frontegalba specimens key out to P. championi GORHAM from which P. frontegalba specimens differ by showing a longer combined length of the funicular antennomeres. In P. frontegalba specimens the combined length of the funicular antennomeres are longer that 1/2 of the length of the basal capitular antennomeres. In P. championi specimens, the combined length of the funicular antennomeres are shorter than 1/2 the length of the basal antennomere of the capitulum.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 6.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 283 . Color: Cranium and prothorax yellow; antenna black; pterothorax brown; elytra bicolorous, anterior 1/4 th yellow, posterior 3/4 th black; prothoracic and mesothoracic legs bicolorous, femora yellow, tibiae and tarsi brown, metathoracic legs brown; abdomen black. Head: Eyes small, coarsely facetted, eye much narrower than frons (EW/FW 52/70); funicular antennomeres ( Fig. 39 ) transverse, very setose; capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 long rectangulate, antennomere 11 very oblong ovate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 182 ) transverse; pronotal tubercles absent (PW/PL 210/180), disc finely punctate; elytral disc without asetiferous punctures, elytra notably flared in posterior 1/2 (EL/EW 700/200). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse/scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 217 .

Variation: Length 13.0- 16.5 mm; width 3.5-7.0 mm. The extent of the yellow region on the elytral base varies.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during November.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromBrazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, frontegalba, is a Latin compound name that stems from frontis (= forepart) and galbus (= yellow); with regard to yellow color of the anterior dorsal 1/2 of this beetle.

Figures

Figs 28-42: Antennae; (28) Neorthopleura thomasi, male; (29) N. thomasi, female; (30) N. subfasciata, male; (31) Artoadenus atrafinus; (32) Neorthopleura subfasciata, female; (33) Akonesis atraordinis; (34) Pelonium erudiatum; (35) Neorthopleura cuspidis, female; (36) Agnatis curvabilis; (37) Ichnea paraguayensis; (38) Neorthopleura quintana, male; (39) Pyticara frontegalba; (40) Platynoptera potaro; (41) Neorthopleura cuspidis, male; (42) Nanoclerus fuscus.

Figs 179-193: Pronota; 179) Phonius versus; (180) Perilypus arsus; (181) A. nodus; (182) Pyticara frontegalba; (183) Pelonium implacide; (184) Neorthoplera quintana; (185) Perilypus virgulatus; (186) P. alpinus; (187) Amboakis expandosa; (188) Ampleris jatai; (189) Megaphloeus jasuni; (190) Amboakis bermejo (191) Madoniella delta; (192) Megaphloeus imparilus; (193) Pyticeroides brevitubulus.

Figs 213-218: Aedeagi; (213) Perilypus virgulatus; (214) Agnatis curvabilis; (215) A. vaurieae; (216) Parapelonides naranjo; (217) Pyticara frontegalba; (218) Amboakis bermejo.

Figs 282-285: Habitus; (282) Parapelonides naranjo; (283) Pyticara frontegalba; (284) Amboakis bermejo; (285) A. collucoatis.