Enoclerus paula OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (1), pp. 123-169 : 140

Enoclerus paula OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 46 , 98)

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: ♁. Type locality: Brazil, (Rio Grande do Sul), S FCO de Paula, Pró-Mata, 12-XII-1997, Leg. Roland Mecke ( WFBM) . Paratype: 1 specimen. BRAZIL: Estado do Minas Gerais ;?-?-1907 (MNHN, 1).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, antenna, and legs flavotestacous; pronotum bicolorous, black and flavotestaceous; elytra with yellow punctiform marking; elytra tricolorous, basal 1/3 flavotestacous, then with white lunar-shaped fascia followed by broad black fascia, elytra apex flavotestaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 46 . Head: Capitulum slightly acuminate; (EW/FW 20/50). Thorax: Elytral disc partially roughly punctate; (PL/PW 90/90); (EL/EW 240/60). Abdomen: Aedeagus (Fig. 98).

E t y m o l o g y: The species name, paula, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs 45-48. Habitus. Enoclerus para (45); E. paula (46); E. pedraazul (47); E. pictilis (48).