Enoclerus maldonado 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 : 136-137

Enoclerus maldonado OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 35 , 90 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: ♁. Type locality: Peru , Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, 16- XI- 2014, 267 m, 12.56104 °S, 71. 10645°W, T. Pérez, Melaise Trap ( WOPC) . Paratypes: 7 specimens. BOLIVIA: Departamento de La Paz , Callanga, G. Garlepp ( WOPC,2) ; La Paz, Callanga ( WOPC, 1). PERU: Provincia de Moyobamba ; M. de Mathan, 1888 ( MNHN, 1) ; Provincia de Satipo ; 15-IX-1941, P. Paprzycki ( WFBM, 1) ; Provincia de Alto Amazonas , 1894 ( MNHN, 2) .

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium red; antenna and femora bicolored; pronotum mostly black, with faint red spot; each elytron 4 with yellow fasciae.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 35 . Head: (EW/FW 20/50). Thorax: Pronotal and elytral discs finely punctate; (PL/PW 110/110); (EL/EW 220/70). Abdomen: Aedeagus ( Fig. 90 ).

V a r i a t i o n: The pronotum is mostly red in some specimens. Length 5.0-7-0 mm; width 1.0- 1.2 mm.

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

Figures

Figs 33-36. Habitus. Enoclerus losvolcanes (33); E. luridus (34); E. maldonado (35); E. matamata (36).

Figs 83-91. Aedeagus. Enoclerus huila (83); E. itajura (84); E. junin (85); E. kaw (86); E. larioja (87); E. losvolcanes (88); E. luridus (89); E. maldonado (90); E. matamata (91).