Priocera longula SCHENKLING , 1906

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 : 1183-1184

Priocera longula SCHENKLING, 1906 (Figs 55, 92, 143)

Priocera longula SCHENKLING, 1906: 256 .

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Here designated. Brazilia , Jatahy Goyas, Sept. á Sept. 97 ( Brazil, Jatai, Goias) ( SDEI).

PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Goias, collectors name not discernible ( USNM). CORPORAAL 1950: 100.

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.92 ): Inadditiontothetypes, I examined 12 specimens from: Brazil: Estado do Pará, Santarém , no other information available ; Estado do Amazonas, Amazonas , Bates, no other information available ; Estado do Bahia, Chapada, no other information available ; Estado do Rondônia, Vilhena ,?- XI-1973, M. Alvarenga. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, CMNH, FMNH, SDEI, USNM, and WOPC .

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium and antenna flavotestaceous; prothoracic venter black; pronotum bicolored, pronotum proper with streaky black lines amidst testaceous areas, pronotal arch and pronotal collar mostly testaceous, infuscated at middle; pterothoracic venter black; elytral tricolored, each elytron with black markings at base and at apical 1/2 and with 3 oblong yellow markings, 2 near middle, one near base proximal to sutural margin; legs bicolorous, mostly testaceous, infuscated; abdominal ventrites I-IV testaceous, ventrites V and VI dark brown.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 1.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 143 . Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 37/7. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 70/107); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 280/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium emarginate along distal margin; phallobasic loop longer than phallobase; aedeagus as in Fig. 55.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.0-8.0 mm; width 1.0- 1.3 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: One specimen was collected during November.

Figures

Figs 92. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 140-143. Habitus. Priocera klugi (140), P.lateralis (141), P. laticincta nov.sp.(142), P. longula (143).