Priocera migma 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 : 1187-1188

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274658

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87CF-6206-8A59-DA81-E6057FD5A6FE

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scientific name

Priocera migma OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera migma OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 61, 98, 149)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Venezuela: Aragua, Rancho Grande , 9-VII-1973, 1100 m, J. Saledo, J. Charigo ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: 2 specimens. Venezuela: Estado de Aragua, Rancho Grande, 9- VII-1973, 1,100 m, J. Saledo, J. Charigo ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium bicolored, mostly castaneous, frons and epicranium partially yellow; antennae testaceous, prothorax mostly dark castaneous, pronotal arch yellow, pronotum proper and pronotal collar partially yellow; pterothorax dark castaneous; elytra bicolorous, admixture of brown and yellow, asetiferous punctures brown, concentration of brown coloration in middle 1.3 rd of disc proximal to sutural margin, narrow brown transverse band near apex; legs bicolorous, mostly yellow, femora with brown ring, tibiae mostly yellow, prothoracic and metathoracic tibiae infuscate at base, metathoracic tibia brown, tarsi yellow; abdomen brown.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm. Form: As in Fig. 149 View Figs 148-151 . Head: Frons broad, wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 33/30). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 95/115); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 320/70); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 61.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.5-7.0 mm; width 1.2-2.0 mm. The dark brown markings on the elytral disc vary in size.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during January, May, and July, from 31 to 1,300 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 89 View Figs 89 ): The species is known from Venezuela.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, migma, is a Greek term that translates as "mixture". I refer to the mixture of brown and yellow coloration on the elytral disc.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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