Priocera angulata SCHENKLING , 1900

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 : 1157

Priocera angulata SCHENKLING, 1900 ( Figs 26 , 91 , 101 )

Priocera angulata SCHENKLING, 1900: 387 .

HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Goyaz , Bras. (Goias, Brazil) ( SDEI) . PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Goias, Jatai,?- XII-1997 -?- I-1998, collector not noted ( SDEI).

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.91 ): Inadditiontothetypes, I examined 8 specimens from: Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso, Sinop ,?- X-1975, M. Alvarenga ; Rio Caraguata ,?- XII- 1953, 400 m, F. Plaumann ; Estado do Mato Grosso do Sur, Trés Lagoas , International Paper , Rio Verde , 30-XI-1993, ethanol baited FIT, cerrado fragment, Flechtman ; Estado do Rondonia, 7 km E Costa Marques, 11-23-IV-1977, Malaise trap, T. Kline ; Estado do Goias, Jatai ,?- XII-1897 - I-1898, collector not noted ; idem, Mineiro ,?-?-1912, H. Donckier ; Rio Verde ,?-?-1908, G. A. Baer. Specimens are deposited in: MNHM, SDEI, UEPB, USNM, and WOPC .

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except elytra bicolorous, mostly castaneous, with yellow speckles in basal 1/2, apical 1/2 with oblique yellow angular fascia at middle and short yellow oblique line in front of apex; legs bicolorous, distal 1/2 of femora and proximal 1/2 of tibiae testaceous, distal 1/2 of femora and distal 1/2 of tibiae and tarsi dark brown.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 2.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 101 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 65/20. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 130//170); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 460/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 26.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0-12.0 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. The yellow speckles on the elytral disc may be white.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during April, September, and October, from southern Brazil at 400 m.

Figures

Figs 91. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 25-33. Aedeagus. Priocera acrobela (25), P. angulata (26), P. aperturosa (27), P. apicalis (28), P. aurosignata (29), P. batesi (30), P. bibulla (31), P. campbelli (32), P. catalinae (33).

Figs 100-103. Habitus. Priocera acrobela nov.sp. (100), P angulata (101), P. apicalis (102, 103).