Priocera apicalis THOMSON , 1860

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 : 1158

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Priocera apicalis THOMSON , 1860
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Priocera apicalis THOMSON, 1860 ( Figs 28 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 102, 103 View Figs 100-103 )

Priocera apicalis THOMSON, 1860: 51 .

HOLOTYPE: Gender not known. Type locality: Guyana ( MNHN).

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. 91 View Figs 91 ): In addition to the holotype, I examined one specimen from: Brazil: Estado do Amazonia, Amazon, Bates. Specimens are deposited in: BMNH and MNHN.

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at basal margin, one premedial, proximal to epipleural suture, one oblong postmedial, proximal to sutural margin.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 102, 103 View Figs 100-103 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/20. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses, with fissure at middle ( PW /PL 100/150); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend lightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex truncate, outer edge with spine ( EL /EW 380/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex.

Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 28. View Figs 25-33

V a r i a t i o n: The available non-type specimen differs from the holotype in the shape of the elytral postmedial yellow spot. This spot is slightly oblique in the non-type specimen, whereas it is transverse in the holotype.

N o t e s: I examined the holotype, but the description is based on a homotype.

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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Priocera apicalis THOMSON , 1860

Opitz, Weston 2021
2021
Loc

Priocera apicalis

THOMSON J 1860: 51
1860
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