Priocera brunnea 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 : 1162

Priocera brunnea OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 83, 94, 112)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Guatemala, Escuintla, Pantaleon, 1,700 feet, Champion ( BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antennae testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5 th, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at middle of basal margin, one premedial, irregularly shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse, postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 112 . Head: Frons wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 35/12. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, coarsely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 80/110); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral apex, latter rounded ( EL /EW 280/65); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 83.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 94 ): The species is known from Guatemala.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, brunnea, is a name that stems from "brown".

Figures

Figs 94. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 112-115. Habitus. Priocera brunnea nov.sp. (112), P. calvariola nov.sp. (113), P. castanea (114), P. campbelli nov.sp. (115).