Priocera faro 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 : 1176

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5039054

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFE8-FFD6-7982-2268FF7BF84E

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scientific name

Priocera faro OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Priocera faro OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 44, 89, 131)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Faro , Amazonas, Hahnel ( Brazil) ( MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: Light castaneous, except elytra bicolored, mostly light castaneous; each elytron with white flecks in basal 1/3 rd, angular, oblique yellow line at middle and yellow lunulate, marking near elytral apex.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 2.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 131 View Figs 128-131 . Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 70/10). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central slit ( PW /PL 130/190); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures, few of which extend slightly beyond elytral middle, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 450/90); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 44.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 89 View Figs 89 ): This species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, faro, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Priocera

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