Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5038854
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5038854
Priocera apicalis
THOMSON
,
1860
(
Figs 28
,
91
,
102, 103
)
Priocera apicalis
THOMSON, 1860: 51
.
HOLOTYPE
:
Gender
not known. Type locality:
Guyana
(
MNHN
).
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
): In addition to the
holotype
, I examined
one specimen
from:
Brazil
:
Estado do Amazonia
, Amazon, Bates. Specimens are deposited in:
BMNH
and
MNHN
.
D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at basal margin, one premedial, proximal to epipleural suture, one oblong postmedial, proximal to sutural margin.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length
8.5 mm
; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 102, 103
. Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/20. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses, with fissure at middle (
PW
/PL 100/150); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend lightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex truncate, outer edge with spine (
EL
/EW 380/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex.
Abdomen: Aedeagus as in
Fig. 28.
V a r i a t i o n: The available non-type specimen differs from the
holotype
in the shape of the elytral postmedial yellow spot. This spot is slightly oblique in the non-type specimen, whereas it is transverse in the
holotype
.
N o t e s: I examined the
holotype
, but the description is based on a homotype.