Enoclerus ceara OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (1), pp. 123-169 : 128

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13153564

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13153681

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587FF-FF90-127E-67FC-6BABFEC63F82

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scientific name

Enoclerus ceara OPITZ
status

sp. nov.

Enoclerus ceara OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 8 View Figs 5-8 , 68)

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: ♁. Type locality: Brazil, Ceará, Serra de Baturíté, Gounelle ,?- I-1885 ( MNHN) . Paratypes: 2 specimens. BRAZIL: Estado do Ceará ; Serra de Baturíté, Gounelle ,?- I-1885 ( MNHN, 1; WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Mostly black; each elytron with 4 yellow markings, posterior pair of markings curvate.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 8 View Figs 5-8 . Head: Capitulum acuminate; (EW/FW 20/43). Thorax: Elytral disc minutely punctate; (PL/PW 80/80); (EL/EW 230/66). Abdomen: Aedeagus (Fig. 68).

E t y m o l o g y: The species name, ceara, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Gallery Image

Figs 5-8. Habitus. Enoclerus capillus (5); E. caraca (6); E. cauca (7); E. ceara (8).

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Enoclerus