Plocamocera insula, OPITZ, 2004

OPITZ, WESTON, 2004, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part Ii. The Genera Chaetophloeus Opitz And Plocamocera Spinola, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2004 (280), pp. 1-82 : 60

Plocamocera insula , new species Figures 167, 208 ; map 7

HOLOTYPE: Female. Trinidad: St. George Co : Arima Ward, Simla (N.Y. Zool. Soc. Sta.), 11­VI­77, on dead twig, E. E. Grissell ( FSCA). (Specimen point mounted, antenna and sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed, collectors label, white, machine printed, natural history label, white, machine printed; FSCA repository label, white; holotype label, red, machine printed.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: Configuration of the antennomeres distinguishes specimens of this species from superficially similar specimens of P. sericellopsis ; in P. insula beetles, antennomere eight is abruptly narrowed distally, whereas in P. sericellopsis specimens antennomere eight narrows gradually.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length: 5.1 mm; width 2.0 mm. Integument: Cranium predominantly castaneous, frons and vertex narrowly piceous; pronotum castaneous; elytra variegated, humerus flavotestaceous, pale setae arranged into three irregular fascia; legs bicolorous, predominantly flavotestaceous, femora and tibiae infuscated. Head: Antennal club as in figure 167. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin moderately projected at middle; pronotal disc with two prominent swellings; elytral epipleural margin with six conspicuous trichobothria; protibia anterior margin with three spines. Abdomen: Female pygidium broad scutiform.

VARIATION: Not observed.

NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected from the type locality during June, ‘‘on dead twig’’.

ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name insula is a Latin noun meaning ‘‘island’’. I refer to the type locality.

Figures

Figs. 196–212. Antennal clubs. 196. Plocamocera sesquipedalis. 197. P. similis. 198. P. coactilis. 199. P. aspera. 200. P. santa. 201. P. onorei. 202. P. bispina. 203. P. carnegei. 204. P. paris. 205. P. ambra. 206. P. bolivari. 207. P. auratilis. 208. P. insula. 209. P. selva. 210. P. cericellopsis. 211. P.