Perilypus alpinus, 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 : 967

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809247

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D85D-FFD3-3CB4-FCF9306DFA61

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scientific name

Perilypus alpinus
status

nov.sp.

Perilypus alpinus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 13 View Figs 1-27 , 186, 209, 271)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Mexico, Chiapas, Cañon Sumidero , 0-12.2 km N Park Entrance, TDF. A second label reads; 18-vi-2016, Beating, J. Rifkind, E. Martinez, colls. ( CSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Perilypus SPINOLA was revised in 1977 (EKIS 1977). This work included a key to species. The available Perilypus alpinus specimen keys out to P. caliculus EKIS, from which Perilypus alpinus differs by showing a serrated tegminal dome, which is not present in P. caliculus specimens.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 271 View Figs 270-273 . Color: Cranium bicolorous, lower frons and clypeus yellow, upper frons, and middle epicranium black, sides of epicranium yellow, cranial venter yellow; antenna black; pronotum broadly yellow at sides, with black discal marking that has central yellow spot; pterothorax dark brown; elytra black; legs bicolorous, femora mostly flavotestaceous, infuscated in distal 1/2, tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen dark brown. Head: Interocular depression shallow, crescentic; frontal umbo not prominent; cranium minutely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 13 View Figs 1-27 ) moderately serrate, not densely setose, antennomeres gradually increasing in diameter from scape to antennomere 11; eyes finely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 25/38). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 186 View Figs 179-193 ) transverse, very finely punctate; pronotal arch well defined; subapical depression well defined; side margins of pronotum proper strongly arcuate (PW/PL 90/78); elytra oblong rectangulate, pubescence short and profusely distributed throughout disc; disc punctures small and profusely distributed on disc, epipleural fold plane (EL/EW 240/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 209. View Figs 207-212

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during June, by beating.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from México. E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, alpinus, is a Latin name with a meaning of "high mountain"; in reference to the type locality.

CSCA

California State Collection of Arthropods

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Perilypus

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