Cregya petalosa, 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 : 1001-1002

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809379

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cregya petalosa
status

nov.sp.

Cregya petalosa OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 60 View Figs 43-60 , 112 View Figs 101-117 , 324 View Figs 322-325 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: ECUADOR: Orellana, 1 km S Okone Gare Camp, Reserva Etnica Waorani , 220-250 m, 25-VI-1994, T. L. Erwin ( USNM).

D i a g n o s i s: The wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 324 View Figs 322-325 . Color: Cranium black. antenna bicolored, fundus and last antennomere yellow, antennomeres 8 and 9 brown; pronotum yellow, except pronotal arch black; mesosternum, femora, and abdomen yellow; metasternum, tibiae, and tarsi dark brown; elytra mostly dark brown, with broad testaceous vitta that extends from elytral posterior 2/3 rd to elytral basal margin; epipleural margin testaceous from humeral angle to posterior 2/3 rd. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 60 View Figs 43-60 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 large triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 24/30). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 112 View Figs 101-117 ) transverse (PW/PL 80/70), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate at elytral distal 3/4 th (EL/EW 220/65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in June, by fogging tree canopy, at an altitude between 220- 250 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, petalosa, is a Greek adjective that stems from petalos (= broad); with reference to the wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Cregya

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