Priocera catalinae CAZIER , 1939

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 : 1166-1167

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039024

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Priocera catalinae CAZIER , 1939
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Priocera catalinae CAZIER, 1939 ( Figs 33 View Figs 25-33 , 88 View Figs 88 , 117 View Figs 116-119 )

Priocera catalinae CAZIER 1939: 162 .

HOLOTYPE: ♂. North America , At soldiers camp ( AMNH) . ALLOTYPE: S. Catalina, Mts, Ariz. , 7-36, E. S. Ross ( TYPE 4818 ) ( AMNH). CORPORAAL, 1950: 162 .

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig. 88 View Figs 88 ): In addition to the holotype, I examined 11 specimens from: The United States of America: Arizona, Cochise County, Chiricahua Mountains , Pinery Canyon Camp , 10-VII-2010, 7,000 feet, Wappes & Cicero ; idem, Barfoot Park , 24-VI-1980, under pine bark, 2,535 m, Scott McCleve ; Apache County, Apache National Forest, Luna Lake campground, 5 miles E Alpine, 22-VI-2002, under bark of dead Ponderosa Pine, C. G. Pollock ; Cochise County, 1 mile S Rustler’s Park , 24-VII-1980, under bark of dead Pinus ponderosa, R. Turnbow ; Cochise County, Huachuca. Mountains , 16-VII-1907, 9,000 feet ; H. A. Kaeber; 8- VIII- 1921, J. N. Knull; Coconino County, Flagstaff ,?- VI-1930, collector not noted ; idem, 15-VI-1904, Pinus, J. L. Webb ; idem, 16-VII-1976, W. H. Tyson. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, CASC, FMNH, JNRC, RHTC, USNM, and WFBM .

D i a g n o s i s: The elytral base is devoid of any testaceous marking.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 117 View Figs 116-119 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 25/30. Thorax: Pronotal sides wrinkled, pronotum proper and pronotal arch finely punctate, pronotum proper with 2 tumescences ( PW /PL 80/110); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 300/50); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male visible abdominal ventrite V deeply widely emarginate distally; aedeagus as in Fig. 33. View Figs 25-33

V a r i a t i o n: The yellow spots on the elytral disc vary in prominence.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during June and July; one under bark of dead Ponderosa pine [ Pinus ponderosa DOUGLAS exc. LAWSON ( Pinaceae )]. Altitudinally, specimens were collected from 2,134 to 2,743 m.

N o t e s: The description is based on a non-type specimen.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

Loc

Priocera catalinae CAZIER , 1939

Opitz, Weston 2021
2021
Loc

Priocera catalinae

CAZIER M 1939: 162
1939
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