Enoclerus crinitus Rifkind

Rifkind, Jacques, 2012, New Central American and Mexican Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae): Part II, Zootaxa 3397, pp. 1-27 : 15

Enoclerus crinitus Rifkind , n. sp.

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Type specimen. Holotype male: México, Puebla, Hwy. 125, 2.5 km SW Zapotitlan Salinas, N 18°19'29" W 97°29'55", 1515 m, 29–vii–2005, C. L. Bellamy, coll., CLB 924, misc. beat & sweep. Holotype deposited in CSCA.

Diagnosis. The new species is readily separable from its congeners based on coloration and vestiture. No other reddish Enoclerus species has comparably long pronotal and elytral setae. Its affinities are not apparent.

Description (Holotype). Length: 11.25 mm. Color: cinnamon; cranium, maxillary palpi, last labial palpomere and underside of antennomere 1, reddish–brown; anterior margin of clypeus, labial palpomeres 1 and 2, antennomeres 2–11, pronotal disk and abdominal tergite 6, castaneous; elytra with a pair of post median, narrow, slightly oblique and rather faintly indicated pale salmon–colored fasciae, complete to epipleura at sides, interrupted well before suture internally. Head: antennae moderately elongate; club gradually enlarged from antennomere 8, antennomere 11 with apical margin rather bluntly, obliquely rounded; front rather deeply, densely punctate; punctures growing finer and more shallow posteriorly; surface rather densely covered with suberect, elongate whitish setae. Pronotum: as broad as long; narrower than elytra at base; transverse impression distinct, broadly V–shaped at middle; disk broadly subflattened; surface very densely, rather minutely punctate, irregularly, finely rugulose posteriorly, bearing a large, rather dense, subcircular patch of elongate, erect black setae, margined laterally and posteriorly with a dense array of quite long, erect white setae. Elytra: elongate (ratio of length to width 12:7), widest at posterior 1/3; humeri pronounced; subbasal tumescences feebly indicated, broadly rounded above; disk subflattened; posterior slope gradual; apices slightly oblique internally, dehiscent; surface deeply, densely, moderately coarsely and irregularly punctate on anterior 1/2, sculpturing increasingly finer and more shallow posteriorly; vestiture as follows: anterior before median fascia unobtrusively set with short, fine, suberect black setae; a sparse U–shaped patch of elongate white setae surrounding the scutellum; a similarly sparse concentration of elongate white setae either side of suture anterior to median fascia; a patch of elongate black setae above postbasal tumescences on either side; median fascia with a rather sparsely arrayed band of short, subrecumbent, white setae; a transverse hourglass–shaped band of rather short, suberect, densely set black setae posterior to median fascia; an anteapical band of densely arrayed subrecumbent white setae of moderate length, narrow at sides, broader towards suture; apices moderately densely covered with short, fine, suberect black setae. Mesosternum: posterior median process feebly elevated. Metasternum: shallowly, densely punctulate and sparsely setose; anterior median process sulcate, not elevated distally. Abdomen: sparsely pubescent; visible sternite 5 broad, posterior margin subtruncate; visible sternite 6 small, hind angles rounded, hind margin subtruncate; visible tergite 6 with sides rounded, posterior margin feebly, arcuately emarginate at middle. Setal daggers absent. Legs: robust.

Etymology. The specific epithet crinitus is Latin for "long haired," a reference to this species' unusual vestiture.

Distribution. The only known specimen was collected in Puebla, México at an elevation of 1515 m.

Biology. Chuck Bellamy reports (personal communication) that he collected the holotype in "a big, wide desert wash with Prosopis , Mimosa , Celtis , etc. growing along the edge and up on the flats."

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. Habitus of: 10. Enoclerus cavei Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male). 11. Enoclerus hespenheidei Rifkind n. sp. (holotype female). 12. Enoclerus melissae Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male). 13. Enoclerus opitzi Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male). 14. Enoclerus urbanus Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male (? )). 15. Enoclerus crinitus Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male). 16. Enoclerus mocho Rifkind n. sp. (holotype female). 17. Enoclerus regnadkcin Rifkind n. sp. (holotype female). 18. Enoclerus citricornis Rifkind n. sp. (holotype male).