Priocera katarubella 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 : 1180-1181

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039086

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scientific name

Priocera katarubella OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera katarubella OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 51, 99, 139)

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: BRAZIL: Corcovado , Guanabara,?- X-1961, Seabra & Alvarenga ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: 11 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Beni, Rurrenabaque , 175 m, collection date and collector not noted ( WFBM, 1) Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Cachimbo,?-?- 1890, Ch. Pujol ( MCNZ, 1; MNHN, 3; WOPC, 1) ; Central Brazil , collection date not noted, R. Fischer ( SDEI, 1) ; Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, collection date not noted, Fry ( BMNH, 2) ; Estado do Amazonas, Amazon , collection dates not noted, Bates ( BMNH, 1) ; Estado do Espiritu Santo, specific locality not legible, collector not noted ( BMNH, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except pronotal collar testaceous; antenna, pterothorax, and legs testaceous; elytra tricolored, basal 1/2 testaceous, apical half mostly black, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one short, transverse premedial in position and contiguous with sutural margin, one slightly oblique, postmedial in position and contiguous with sutural margin, elytral apical 1/5 th testaceous; abdomen bicolored, visible ventrites I, IV-VI- testaceous, other visible ventrites yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.5 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 139 View Figs 136-139 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 33/9. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 80/115); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures extending slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 290/57); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 51.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0- 10.5 mm; width 2.0-3.0 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: A specimen from Brazil was collected in October and one from Bolivia at 175 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, katarubella, is a compound name that stems from the Greek kata (= below) and the Latin ruber (= red); with reference to the mostly reddishtestaceous color of the venter of these beetles.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

MCNZ

Porto Alegre, Museu de Ciencias Naturais da Fundacao Zoo-Botanica do Rio Grande do Sul

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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