Priocera mixtura 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 : 1189

Priocera mixtura OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 63, 98, 151)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Bolivia, Plazuela to Inquisivi,?-XIII-1984 (collector not noted) ( WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, prothorax, and pterothorax castaneous; antennae, proximal 1/2 of femora, distal 1/2 of tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolored, basal 3/4 th admixture of white and brown coloration, asetiferous punctures brown, apical 1/5 th white; abdomen brown

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 151 . Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, carinose, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/20). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely sculptured, carinose, with 2 very prominent tumescenses and centrally located fissure ( PW /PL 85/130); elytral disc sculptured with substriate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 360/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 63.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during August.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 98 ): The species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, mixtura, is a Latin word that stems from miscreo (= mix); I refer to the admixture of colors on the elytral disc.

Figures

Figs 98. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 148-151. Habitus. Priocera miersiana (148), P. migma nov.sp. (149), P. minuta (150), P. mixtura nov.sp. (151).