Priocera penna 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 : 1192

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039112

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Priocera penna OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera penna OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 67, 95, 156)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Coyotes , Durango, Dist.Dgo. Mex., 8300 ft., Aug. 8, ’47. A second label reads: D. Rockefellar EXP. Gertsch ( AMNH) . PARATYPE: 2 specimens. México: Estado de México, Valle de Bravo, 7-V-1962, F. D. Parker, L. A. Stange ( UCDC). Estado de Sinaloa, 2 km SW Santa Lucia, Villa Blanca, 16- VIII- 1986, Faulkner ( ACMT).

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one in front of middle near epipleural margin, one behind middle near sutural margin.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 156 View Figs 156-159 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than eye and longer than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 48/55). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and with fissure at middle ( PW /PL 85/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 2/3 rd, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 165/55); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 67.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The two available specimens were collected from México during May and August, one at 2,531 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, penna, is a Latin noun with the meaning of "arrow"; with reference to the shape of the aedeagus.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

UCDC

R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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