Priocera petalosa 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.5039114

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFD8-FFE6-7982-23B8FC09F9F6

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scientific name

Priocera petalosa OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera petalosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 68, 98, 157)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Brazil: Bahia, Itapetinga ,?- XI-1969, M. Alvarenga ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Villa Victoria,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujol ( MNHN).

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

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 157 View Figs 156-159 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 50/20). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 110//150); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend posteriorly slightly beyond elytral 1/2 ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 68.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 98 View Figs 98 ): This species is known from the Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, petalosa, is a Latin adjective that stems from petalus (= broad), with reference to the comparatively broadened phallobasic lobes.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

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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