Priocera uncinata OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1203

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039126

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFCD-FFF3-7982-23A2FD7CF938

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Carolina

scientific name

Priocera uncinata OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera uncinata OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 78 View Figs 70-78 , 99 View Figs 99 , 171 View Figs 168-171 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Amazon , Bates ( Brazil) ( BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: Dark castaneous, except elytra bicolored, mostly dark castaneous, with 3 aggregates of yellow markings, one spot near basal margin, one angular aggregate at mid-elytron, one spot anterior to elytral apex.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.2 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 171 View Figs 168-171 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/7. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 90/133); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 78. View Figs 70-78

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 99 View Figs 99 ): This species is known from the Amazon.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, uncinata, is a Latin noun that stems from uncus (= hook), with reference to the spurs on the phallobasic lobes.

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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