Priocera calvariola 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 : 1162-1163

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFE6-FFDB-7982-239AFB8BFF03

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Carolina

scientific name

Priocera calvariola OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera calvariola OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 84, 91, 113)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 4.6 km SSE Buena Vista , F & F Hotel, 22- October- 2004, 405 m, Wappes & Morris ( FSCA) . PARATYPES: 50 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna , 17°29.949'S 63°33.152'W, 5-15-XI- 2001, 405 m, M. C. Thomas & B. K. Dozier ( AMNH, 1; CASC, 1; CMNC, 1; CMNH, 1; FMNH, 1; FSCA, 9) GoogleMaps ; idem, 14-19-X-2000, M. C. Thomas ( TAMU, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 10-29- XI-2003, B. K. Dozier ( USNM, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 21-24-XI-2003, Wappes, Morris & Nearns ( ACMT, 2) GoogleMaps ; idem, 3-8-X-2004, Wappes & Morris ( WFBM, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 22-31-X-2002, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 2) GoogleMaps ; idem, 13-16-XI-2003, Wappes, Morris & Nearns ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 22-31- X-2002, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; 4.6 km SSE Buena Vista , 17°29.95'S 63°33.15'W, 3-14- XI-2003, 400- 500 m, S. W. Lingafelter ( ACMT, 2; USNM, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 3-14-XI-2003, 400- 500 m, N. E. Woodley ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 27-31-X-2002, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 3) GoogleMaps ; idem, 17-20-X- 2000, R. Morris ( RFMC, 1) GoogleMaps ; 14-17-XI-2003, Morris, Nearns, Wappes ( RFMC, 1) ; idem, 19-22- X-2004, Morris & Wappes ( JMLC, 1) ; idem, 12-V-2004, Wappes ( ACMT, 1) ; 4 km N Bermejo, Refugio Los Volcanes , 18°06'S 63°36'W, 8-11-XII-2011, 1,350 m, Wappes, Lingafelter, Morris & Woodley ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 11-17-XII-2012, Wappes & Skillman ( ACMT, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 9-XII- 2013, Skillman & Wappes ( FWSC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 9-12-XII-2011, 1,350 m, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 18-24-X-2014, 3,363 feet, Morris & Wappes ( RFMC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 16-21-X-2007, 18°06'S 63°36'W, J. Wappes & A. Cline ( ACMT, 2) GoogleMaps ; Potrerillo del Guenda, 40 k NW Santa Cruz, Preserva Natural , 17°40'S 63°27'W, 30-IX-3-X- 2007, 370 m, Wappes & Morris ( ACMT, 2) GoogleMaps ; idem, 10-29-XI-2006, B. K. Dozier ( CUIC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 17°40'S 63°27'W, 14-17-I- 2007, 380 m, Lingafelter, Wappes, Prena ( JMLC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 17- 22-X-2007, J. Romero ( WOPC, 1) GoogleMaps ; Provincia del Sara ,?- XI- 1909, 450 m, J. Steinbach ( CMNH, 1) ; Buena Vista, vicinity Flora & Fauna Hotel, 17-20-X-2000, R. Morris ( RFMC, 1). Peru: Provincia de Tambopata, Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Reserva , 30 km (air) SW Puerto Maldonado, 8-XI- 1983, 290 m, Canopy Fogging, T. L. Erwin ( USNM, 1). Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso , Sinop,?- X-1976, M. Alvarenga ( WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except posterior pronotal angles yellow; antennae, pterothorax, and abdomen testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, apical 1/2 testaceous, except with narrow dark obliquely positioned line; each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one marking at middle of elytral base, one oblong, diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, and one small transverse marking behind middle approaching sutural margin; legs bicolorous, femora black distally, testaceous proximally, tibiae black, tarsi yellow.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.8 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 113 View Figs 112-115 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/3. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, pronotum with 2 tumescenses and small central slit ( PW /PL 70/110); elytra narrow, disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 225/28); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male visible abdominal ventrite V broadly emarginate in posterior margin; aedeagus as in Fig. 84.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 4.0- 7.8 mm; width 1.0-2.0 mm. The width of the frons is sex dimorphic, with males having narrower frons.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected throughout the year, at altitudes that range from 370

to 1,350 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 View Figs 91 ): This species is known from Bolivia and Peru.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, calvariola, is a Latin noun with a meaning of "small cup". I refer to the concavity on the distal margin of the male visible abdominal sternite V.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

CMNH

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

TAMU

Texas A&M University

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

WFBM

W.F. Barr Entomological Collection

CUIC

Cornell University Insect Collection

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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