Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) Author OPITZ, WESTON text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 2005-05-11 2005 293 1 128 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2005)293%3C0001%3ACNHAEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5362748 SCULPTILLUS GROUP Aphelocerus sculptillus , new species Figures 137 , 198 , 217, 240; map 27 HOLOTYPE : Female. Panama : Panama , Cerro Campana , 645 m , 1­I­2002 , W. Opitz ( MIUP ). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine print­ ed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; MIUP repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed.) PARATYPES : Ten specimens. Panama : Cocle : Altos de Campana , 26­IV­1996 , R. Turnbow ( RHTC , 1; WOPC , 1) ; El Valle , 29­IV­ 1992 , E. Giesbert ( FSCA , 1; WOPC , 2) ; 10– 13­VI­1985 , E. Riley & D. Rider ( LSUC , 1): Cerro Campana , 7­I­1994 ( JEWC , 1) ; 17­V­ 1999 ( RFMC , 1) ; 625 m , 25­VI­1995 , H. Stockwell ( STRI , 1) ; 820 m , 10­VII­1982 , H. Stockwell ( WOPC , 1) . DIAGNOSIS: The elytral middiscal setal tuft is comprised of one large patch whose setae are directed anteriorly (fig. 240). This feature will distinguish A. sculptillus , n.sp. , specimens from all other aphelocerans with a microsculptured pronotal disc. DESCRIPTION: Size : Length 4.2–5.0 mm; 2.0– 2.2 mm . Integument : Black. Vestiture : Integument densely vested with prominent light and dark setae; elytral sutural tuft well developed, extended to elytral basal third; elytral middiscal tuft comprised of one large transverse patch whose setae are directed anteriorly. Head : Finely punctate; interocular depressions and frontal umbo shallow; eyes, oval moderately convex; width across eyes about equal to width across pronotum (31: 34); antenna (fig. 217) much shorter than length of pronotum (28:35). Thorax : Pronotum about as long as wide (35:34), disc finely punctated and very finely microsculptured, subapical depression poorly defined, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 35, greatest depth in posterior half 50. Abdomen : Posterior margin of pydigium evenly arcuate in female; feebly sinuous in male. Male genitalia : As in figure 198; parameral apices less accuminate than in A. sabulous , n.sp. specimens. VARIATION: There is some variation in the development of the basal accumination of the parameres. NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens have been collected during January, April, May, and June, from 625 to 820 m ; one by beating roadside vegetation. DISTRIBUTION (map 27): Known only from Central Panama . ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a Latin compound name derived from sculpto (carve) and the diminuative suffix ­ illus . I refer to the minute microsculpture on the pronotal disc.