Parapelonides naranjo, 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

Parapelonides naranjo OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 80 , 120 , 216 , 282 )

Holotype: ♀. COSTA RICA, Guan. 3k SE R. Naranjo, 15-19-Mar. 1993, F. D. Parker ( FSCA) . Paratype: 1 specimen. Honduras: Departamento de Francisco de Morazan, Zamorano, 27-V- 2002, R. Turnbow ( RHTC).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Parapelonides BARR was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014b). This work included a key to species. Parapelonides naranjo specimens key out to P. nigrescens (SCHAEFFER) from which P. naranjo specimens differ by showing the side margins of the pronotum constricted at anterior 1/4 th.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.2 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 282 . Color: Cranium mostly black, clypeus and middle frons testaceous; antenna black; prothorax widely testaceous at sides, black in remainder; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen piceous; elytra bicolored, testaceous in basal 2/3 rd, black in remainder. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 80 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres gradually shorter from pedicel to 8 th antennomere, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 long triangular, antennomere 11 subrectangulate; eyes small, ommatidia small, ocular notch large, eye much narrower than frons (EW/FW 15/30). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 120 ) quadrate (PW/PL 70/70), anterior transverse depression present; disc coarsely punctate, sides of pronotal proper convex; elytral asetiferous punctures small, profusely distributed throughout disc; epipleural fold wide in basal 3/4 th, then tapered to elytral apex (EL/EW 250/60); Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 216 .

Variation: In some specimens, the posterior black coloration on the elytral disc is extended more anteriorly, narrowly extended anteriorly near sutural margin.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during March and May.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Honduras and Costa Rica.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, naranjo, is a name in apposition and refers to Rio Naranjo, part of the type locality.

Figures

Figs 61-91: Antennae; (61) Madoniella muralla; (62) M. nota; (63) M. acicula; (64) M. aspera; (65) M. baja; (66) M. delta; (67) Amboakis bermejo; (68) Pujoliclerus variolus; (69) Megatrachys irrasis; (70) Cregya arima; (71) Nelsopelonium aspikelum; (72) Cregya vicosa; (73) Pujoliclerus abditus; (74) P. dexus; (75) Cregya triguttula; (76) Pyticeroides brevitubulus; (77) Pujoliclerus lasiosus; (78) Cregya biguttula; (79) Sirpa acara; (80) Parapelonides naranjo; (81) Cregya livida; (82) Amboakis collucoatis; (83) Ampleris jatai; (84) Megaphloeus yasuni; (85) Pelonium implacide, male; (86) Epiphloeus prolixicornus; (87) Pelonium implacide, female; (88) Epiphloeus mantillerii; (89) Amboakis mitaraka; (90) Ellipotoma makrosa; (91) Cregya maura.

Figs 118-133: Pronota; (118) Pujoliclerus abditus; (119) Nelsopelonium aspikelum; (120) Parapelonides naranjo; (121) Pujoliclerus lasiosus; (122) Neorthopleura rubra; (123) Pujoliclerus ariquemes; (124) Ichnea cerinis; (125) Ampleris amazon; (126) Pujoliclerus abditus; (127) P. dexsus; (128) Sirpa acara; (129) Madoniella aspera; (130) Pelonium tayrona; (131) Megatrachys irrasis; (132) Ordinis taxis; (133) Pujoliclerus cnecostus.

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.