Priocera strigilla 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 : 1201

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039120

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFCF-FFF1-7982-2112FCA8FF00

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scientific name

Priocera strigilla OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera strigilla OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 75 View Figs 70-78 , 95 View Figs 95 , 167 View Figs 164-167 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: MEXICO: Michuocán, Jct. Hwy 4 & Huetamo, rd., e Morela, vii.8.1947, 83, T. H. Hubbell, 2100 m ( WFBM) . PARATYPES: México: Estado de Colima, Lago La Maria , 22-VII-1995, 1,250 m, beating, J. Rifkind, A. Reischneider ( JNRC) ; Estado de Hidalgo, El Chico , 10-VII-1947, C. Bolivar ( WOPC) .

D i a g n o s i s: Color: Castaneous, except antennae, distal area of tibiae, tarsi, and apical region of elytra testaceous; each elytron, with 3 yellow spots, one circular at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one angular in front of middle near epipleural margin, one shorttransverse behind middle near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 10.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 167 View Figs 164-167 . Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, carinose, eyes wider than frons, latter wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 40/35). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, carinose, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 110/155); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 4/5 th, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 440/90); metathoracic femur gradually broadened to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 75. View Figs 70-78

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during July and August, at altitudes that range from 1,500 to 2,100 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 95 View Figs 95 ): This species is known from México.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, strigilla, is a Latin name that stems from striga (= a furrow); with reference to the macrosculpture on the cranium.

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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