Ampleris itaituba 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809327
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D872-FFFD-3CB4-FEC13323F883
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Ampleris itaituba OPITZ
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Ampleris itaituba OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 197 View Figs 194-200 , 235 View Figs 231-236 , 318)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Itaituba ( Brazil, Para), Amazonas, Hahnel ( 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). This work included a key to species. The available Ampleris itaituba specimen keys out to A. orosi OPITZ, from which the A. itaituba holotype differs by showing a more obtuse pronotal tubercle and broader capitular antennomeres.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 318 View Figs 318-321 . Color: Clypeus and cranial venter testaceous, remainder of cranium black; antenna black; prothorax bicolored, prothoracic venter testaceous, pronotum mostly black, with narrow testaceous line at middle; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra piceous; legs bicolorous, mostly brown, testaceous at base. Head: Antenna capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse, capitular antennomeres narrow-oblong; eyes small, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 20/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 197 View Figs 194-200 ) quadrate, disc coarsely punctate (PW/PL 65/65); lateral tubercle well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures profusely distributed (EL/EW 255/55). Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 235. View Figs 231-236

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, itaituba, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.