Ampleris jatai 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 : 998

Ampleris jatai OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 83 , 188 , 236 , 319)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Jatahy (= Jatai), Prov. Goyas, Brezil (Goias, Brazil) ( MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Ampleris OPITZ and its 7 previously described species were made available in 2016 ( OPITZ 2016). That work included a key to species. The available Ampleris jatai specimen keys out to A. orosis OPITZ, from which the A. jatai holotype differs by showing shorter and wider capitular antennomeres.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.5 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 319 . Color: Clypeus and lower frons testaceous, upper frons and epicranium brown, except epicranium with narrow testaceous streak at middle; gena testaceous; antenna brown; prothorax bicolored, venter testaceous; pronotum bicolored, disc broadly brown at sides, narrowly testaceous at middle, testaceous region laden with yellow setae; pterothorax, elytra, legs, and abdomen piceous. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 83 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse, very setose, capitular antennomeres oblong; eyes small, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 10/17). Thorax: Pronotal disc ( Fig. 188 ) coarsely punctate, slightly oblong (PW/PL 40/43); lateral tubercle well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures substriate (EL/EW 165/35). Abdomen: Pygidium subquadrate/scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 236.

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, jatai, is a noun in apposition and refers to 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 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 231-236: Aedeagi; (231) Neorthopleura quintana; (232) N. thomasi; (233) N. turnbowi; (234) Ampleris cacuminis; (235) A. itaituba; (236) A. jatai.

Figs 318-321: Habitus; (318) Ampleris ituituba; (319) A. jatai (320) Cregya arima; (321) C. biguttula.