Priocera miersiana W HITE, 1849

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 : 1186-1187

Priocera miersiana W HITE, 1849 (Figs 60, 98, 148)

Priocera miersiana WHITE, 1849: 49 .

Priocera cylidrica THOMSON, 1860: 54. nov.syn.

Priocera villosa CHEVROLAT, 1876: 6 . nov.syn.

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Brazil, Miers ( OXUM). CORPORAAL 1950 : 100.

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig. 98 ): In addition to the lectotype, I examined 48 specimens from: Ecuador: Provincia de Loja, collection date not noted, Abbé Gaujon. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Antonio de Barra ,?-?-1889, Pujol ; Estado do Pará, Jacareacanga ,?- VI- 1969, P. R. Barbosa ; Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara ,?- III-1964, M. Alvarenga ; Nova Friburgo , 3-4-II-1903, E. Gounelle ; Estado do São Paulo, Japoguara , 11-II-1934, J. Halik ; Bananal, Guarulhos , 11-II-1958, J. Halik ; Silio Bananal, Guarulhos , 12-XI1959, J. Halik ; Jabaguadra ,?-XII-?, B. Pohl ; Quéluz , collection date not noted, P. Germain ; Rio Pardo ,?- XII-1898, E. Gounelle ; Cantareira , 21-XII-1961, J. Halik ; Estado do Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto , 9-XI-1985, T. J. Henry 7 S. P. Fiuza F ; Santa Barbara Serrado, Caraca ,?- I-1970, F. M. Oliveira ; Mar du Hespanha ,?-?-1909, collector not noted ; Sertão de Diamantina, Fazenda las Melacias , 10-XI-1902, E. Gounelle ; Estado do Santa Catarina, Rio Natal ,?- I-1946, A. Maller ; Ibirama, Wiggenhauser’s Forest , 4-I- 1993, 200 m, Mata Atlantica, J. & E. Beierl ; Rio Grande do Sul, São Fco. De Paula, Pró Mata , 31-II-1997, Roland Mecke ; idem, 1-XI-1999, L. Maura ; Torres, 12-I-2005, I. Heydrich. Paraguay: Departamento de San Pedro, Capiibary ,?- I-1995, collector not noted. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, BMNH, CASC, CMNC, CMNH, FMNH, JNRC, KSUC, MCNZ, MNHN, OXUM, SDEI, SMTD, USNM, WFBM, and WOPC .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black; antenna testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra tricolored, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at basal margin, one angular in front of middle, one postmedial, apical 1/4 th testaceous; abdomen bicolored, basal visible ventrites I-III brown, apical 3 ventrites testaceous.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 148 . Head: Frons wrinkled, wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 53/20. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, finely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 115/150); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 425/70); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus (Fig. 60) extraordinarily long; inner margin of phallobasic lobe with one faintly visible spine.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 7.0-13.0 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. The orientation of the postmedial yellow spot varies slightly; it is slightly oblique in some specimens.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected throughout the year, 3 at 200 m.

Figures

Figs 98. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 148-151. Habitus. Priocera miersiana (148), P. migma nov.sp. (149), P. minuta (150), P. mixtura nov.sp. (151).