Priocera marajoara 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 : 1185-1186

Priocera marajoara OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 58, 92, 146)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Amazonas , Bates ( Brazil) ( BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, lower sides and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, black along dorsal margin, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, testaceous line extends backwards from humeral angle, apical 1/2 yellow except with faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 2 yellow markings, one oblong at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one triangular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 146 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/5). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 70/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend a short distance beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 270/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidial distal margin rounded; aedeagus as in Fig. 58.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 92 ): This species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, morajoara, is a patronymic that honors the Amazonian Morajoara pre-Columbian culture, which once flourished on Morajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River, in Brazil.

Figures

Figs 92. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 144-147. Habitus. Priocera lustruata nov.sp. (144), P. magdalena nov.sp. (145), P. marajoara nov.sp. (146), P. marginicollis (147).