Priocera magdalena OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1185

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-6204-8A5A-DA81-E34D7D76A3A8

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scientific name

Priocera magdalena OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera magdalena OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 57, 92, 145)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Colombia , Magdalena, collectors name not legible ( BMNH) . PARATYPES: 11 specimens. Costa Rica: Provincia de Guanacaste, Estación Martiza, lado Oeste Volcán Orosi ,?- IV- 1990, 600 m, Malaise trap, R. Blanco ( CMNH, 1) ; Estación Las Pallas, Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja , 1-22-VII- 1992, 800 m, Malaise trap, D. Garcia ( CSCA, 1) ; Panamá: Barro Island Colorado, 9-VI-1977, H. A. Hespenheide ( WFBM, 1). Colombia: Departamento de Magdalena, collection date not noted, collector name not legible ( SDEI, 1) ; Departamento de Cauca, Valle de Cauca,?-?-1898, M. de Mathan ( MNHN, 1). Venezuela: Estado de Carabobo, San Esteban, 31-I- 1973, 100 m, Carlos Bordón ( WOPC, 1). Peru: Provincia de Caylloma , Huambo,?-?-1889, M. de Mathan ( WOPC, 1). Bolivia: Departamento de La Paz, Callanga, collection date not noted, G. Garlepp ( MNHN, 1) ; Departamento de Santa Cruz, Hotel Fauna & Flora, 1-12-V- 2004, J. Wappes ( ACMT, 1) ; Florida, 4 km N Bermejo, 8-XII-2013, Skillman & Wappes ( FWSC, 1). Brazil: Estado do Rondonia, 62 km SE Ariquemes , 22-31-X-1997, W. J. Hanson ( EMUS, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except elytra with yellow spots; each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one angular at elytral base, one angular, premedial near epipleural margin, one postmedial, obliquely positioned near sutural margin, apex testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 145 View Figs 144-147 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/8). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 85/115); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 300/65); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 57.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 6.0- 7.5 mm; width 1.6-2.0 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected Costa Rica during April in a Malaise trap set at 600-800 m; from Panamá during June; from Venezuela during January; and from Bolivia during May, October, and December.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 92 View Figs 92 ): This species is known from Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, magdalena, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

CMNH

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

CSCA

California State Collection of Arthropods

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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