Sirpa latiflava OPITZ, 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 : 1021

Sirpa latiflava OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 58 , 157 , 258 , 354 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res., 30 km (air) sw Pto. Maldonado , 290 m, 12°50'S 069°20'W. A second label reads: Smithsonian Institution , Canopy Fogging Project , T. L. Erwin et al colls. 10Sep84, 02/02/04. A third label reads: 0053682 ( USNM). Paratype: 1 specimen. Peru: Region Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res., 30 km (air) SW Puerto Maldonado , 12°50'S 069°20'W, 8-IX- 1984, 290 m, T. L. Erwin ( USNM).

D i a g n o s i s: In 2016, OPITZ published a key to the species of Sirpa OPITZ ( OPITZ 2016: 262). Sirpa latiflava specimens key out to S. parva OPITZ from which S. latiflava specimens differ by showing a more transverse pronotum that is also more convex and a much broader aedeagus.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.2 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 354 . Color: Cranium mostly testaceous, with broad black marking that covers upper frons and epicranium; prothorax mostly testaceous, pronotum broadly black at middle; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen dark brown; elytra mostly testaceous, black at base of sutural margin and in elytral apical region. Head: Eye coarsely facetted, as wide as frons (EW/FW 24/24); antenna capitate ( Fig. 58 ), funicular antennomeres subfiliform, gradually shorter and wider to capitulum, capitulum sex dimorphic, slightly longer in male, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular, antennomere 11 subrectangulate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 157 ) transverse, lateral tubercles slightly defined (PW/PL 80/60), disc coarsely punctate; asetiferous punctures profusely distributed on elytral disc, epipleural margin prominent, narrows to elytral apex (EL/EW 235/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 258.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected in September, at 290 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, latiflava, is a Latin compound name that stems from latus (= side) and flavis (= yellow); with reference to the color of the sides of the elytra.

Figures

Figs 43-60: Antennae; (43) Ordinis taxis; (44) Pelonium tayrona; (45) Neorthopleura turnbowi, male; (46) N. turnbowi, female; (47) Megaphloeus imparilus; (48) Plocamocera catalexis; (48 a) Cregya entrerios; (49) Ridica merida. (50) Kataspinula puebla. (51) Cregya tobagoensis; (52) Topainca patchacutii; (53) Eurycaulis anaxeis; (54) Amboakis expandosa. (55) Ridica achira. (56) Ampleris cacuminis; (57) Sicamus suprus; (58) Sirpa latiflava; (59) Alarius careoritus; (60) Cregya petalosa.

Figs 153-162: Pronota; (153) Agnatis vaurieae; (154) Pelonium atrigonatium; (155) Pujoliclerus variolus; (156) Epiphloeus prolixicornus; (157) Sirpa latiflava; (158) Neorthopleura turnbowi; (159) Aphelocerus yaguare; (160) A. copanus; (161) Amboakis mitaraka; (162) Ellipotoma makrosa.

Figs 255-261: Aedeagi; (255) Pujoliclerus tuxtlas; (256) Sicamus suprus; (257) Sirpa acara; (258) Sirpa latiflava; (259) Topainca pachacutii; (260) Pelonium atrigonatium; (261) Ordinis taxis.

Figs 354-357: Habitus; (354) Sirpa latiflava; (355) Topainca pachacutii; (356) Platynoptera potaro; (357) Artoadenus atrafinus.