Pujoliclerus sentus, 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 : 1016-1017

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809303

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D86C-FFE0-3CB4-FB21313DFA97

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scientific name

Pujoliclerus sentus
status

nov.sp.

Pujoliclerus sentus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 20 View Figs 1-27 , 141 View Figs 134-152 , 347)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 430 m, 17°29.949'S- 63°33.152'W, 5-15-XI-2001, M. C. Thomas, trop. Transition forest BLT ( FSCA). GoogleMaps

Paratype: 1 specimen. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Buena Vista, 29-X-1999, disturbed tropical forest, at light, 410 m, C. Porter, L. Stange ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: The extraordinarily rough punctation on the pronotal disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm; width 1.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 347 View Figs 346-349 . Color: Cranium mostly testaceous, frons and epicranium black; antenna black; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly brown, epipleural margin testaceous; legs mostly yellow, prothoracic tibiae brown; prothoracic and metathoracic tarsi brown, metathoracic tibiae yellow. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 20 View Figs 1-27 ) capitate, funicular antenno- meres shorter to capitulum; capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye as wide as frons (EW/FW 25/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 141 View Figs 134-152 ) slightly transverse (PW/PL 80/73), disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 190/55). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

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

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, sentus, is a Latin name with a meaning of "rough"; with reference to the very rough surface on the pronotal disc.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Pujoliclerus

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