Onychotillus vittatus Chapin, 1945

Opitz, Weston, 2022, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (913), pp. 1-16 : 4-5

Onychotillus vittatus Chapin, 1945

Figure 16 .

Type material. Holotype: Gender unknown. Type locality: Jamaica, Parish of Saint Catherine, Great Goat Island , 23-IV-1941, on flower of spike Agave sobolifera Salm-Dyck ( USNM) . Paratypes. 17 specimens. Jamaica, Parish of

Saint Catherine, Great Goat Island, 23-IV-1941, on flower of spike Agave sobolifera Salm-Dyck ( USNM). The 18 type specimens were not available for study. The description is based on a homotype specimen.

Diagnosis. The legs are completely brown. This characteristic will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

Redescription. Size. Length 4.0 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form. As in Fig. 16 Color. Body purpurescent, elytra with feebly indicated transverse fascia. Head. Cranium finely punctate, eyes prominent, frons much wider than length of pedicel; EW/FW 10/35. Thorax. Pronotum finely transversely wrinkled, oblong, slightly expanded at middle 1/2; subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow; PW/PL 45/50; elytra punctations striate, striae not reduced near elytral apex; EL/EW 150/35; short elytral setae decumbent, long elytral setae recumbent. Abdomen. Aedeagus not available for study.

Distribution. I examined one homotype specimen from Jamaica, Bull Run, Saint Andrew Parish, 19-IV-1959, Farr and Sanderson (USNM).

Figures

Figures 15–17. Habitus of Onychotillus species. 15) Onychotillus minutus. 16) O. vittatus. 17) O. woodruffi.