Priocera acrobela OPITZ, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5038854 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532175 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/96228794-FFFC-FFC5-7982-23F8FDE0FE23 |
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Carolina |
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scientific name |
Priocera acrobela OPITZ |
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sp. nov. |
Priocera acrobela OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 25 View Figs 25-33 , 91 View Figs 91 , 100 View Figs 100-103 )
HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: SAN ANTONIO de los Altos, m. 1300, (Edo. Miranda, Venezuela). A second label reads: 15-VI-1964, leg. BORDON ( WOPC) . PARATYPES: 19 specimens. Panamá: Provincia de Panamá, Cerro Campana, 29-VI-1974, C. W. & L. O’Brien & Marshall ( WOPC, 1). Venezuela: Estado de Aragua , Tiara , 21-V-1967, 1,200 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) ; Rancho Grande , 10-IV-1973, 1,100 m, G. Ekis ( BMNH, 1; OXUM, 1; SDEI, 1; SMTD, 1) ; idem, 20 km N Maracay , 22-30-IV-1972, 1,130 m, C. T. Collins ( CASC, 1) ; idem: 6-IsV-1978, 1,100 -1,500, O’Brien & Marshall ( JNRC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 13- VIII- 1988, 1,200 -1,400 m, C. W. & L. O’Brien & Wibmer ( CMNH, 1) GoogleMaps ; Estado de Miranda, San Antonio de los Altos , 24-XII-1963, 1,300 m, C. Bordón ( AMNH, 1) ; idem, 2-I-1964, C. Bordón ( MCZC, 1) ; idem, 5-V-1963, C. Bordón ( CSCA, 1) ; Estado de Distrito Capital , Caracas,?-?-1921, A. J. C. Rojas ( USNM, 1) ; Los Venados, Parque Nacional Avila , 11- VIII- 1968, 1,600 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) ; idem, 20- VIII- 1967, 1,600 m, Bordón ( ZMHB, 1) ; 11- VIII- 1968, 1,600 m, C. Bordón ( FMNH, 1) ; El Limón , 20-VI-1965, 1,800 m, C. Bordón ( FSCA, 1) ; Estado de Mérida, 6 km E Las Cruces, 13-VII-1986, R. S. Miller ( WFBM, 1). Colombia: Departamento de Huila , Parque Nacional Puracé, 1-VI-1972,2,300 m, C. Bordón ( WOPC, 1) .
D i a g n o s i s: Forebody and pterothorax castaneous; antenna testaceous; elytra tricolorous, ground color with admixture of testaceous and brown markings, elytral apex yellow; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base, one positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin; legs mostly castaneous, proximal region of femora and distal region of tibiae testaceous, upper margin of femoral capitulum castaneous, tarsi testaceous; abdomen testaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 100 View Figs 100-103 . Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 37/7). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 70/110); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 3/4 th ( EL /EW 320/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 25. View Figs 25-33
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 6.0-8.0 mm; width 1.8-2.0 mm. The yellow spots on the elytral disc may be white.
D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 View Figs 91 ): This species is known from Panamá, Colombia, and Venezuela.
E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, acrobela, stems from the Greek belos (= arrow). I refer to the arrow-like shape of the phallobase.
| CMNH |
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History |
| AMNH |
American Museum of Natural History |
| CSCA |
California State Collection of Arthropods |
| USNM |
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History |
| FMNH |
Field Museum of Natural History |
| FSCA |
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology |
| WFBM |
W.F. Barr Entomological Collection |
| PW |
Paleontological Collections |
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