Priocera turnbowi 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 : 1190

Priocera turnbowi OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 93 , 152 )

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: NICARAGUA: Matagalpa, Selva Negra , 16-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( FSCA) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Costa Rica: Provincia de Puntarenas, Monteverde,?- IV- 2014 -?- VI-2015, 1.400 m, Walter Feisthuber ( RGCM).

D i a g n o s i s: Color: Black except antennae and tarsi testaceous, elytra bicolored, apicies white; each elytron with 3 white spots, one faintly visible spot at middle of basal margin, one premedial near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 152 . Head: Frons wrinkled and wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/30. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 95/130); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral posterior 3/4 th, apex rounded ( EL /EW 310/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

V a r i a t i o n: The cranium is more completely wrinkled in specimens from Costa Rica.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimenswerecollected during June, the paratype at 1,400 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 ): The species is known from Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, turnbowi, is a patronymic that recognizes Robert H. Turnbow for his outstanding editorial work with my manuscripts.

Figures

Figs 93. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 152-155.Habitus. Priocera turnbowi nov.sp. (152), P.nubes nov.sp.(153),P.odegaardi nov.sp. (154), P. pallens (155).