Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2021 52 2 1145 1255 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5038854 0253-116X 5038854 Priocera acrobela OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 25 , 91 , 100 ) 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) ; idem, 13- VIII- 1988 , 1,200 -1,400 m , C. W. & L. O’Brien & Wibmer ( CMNH , 1) ; 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 . 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. 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 ): 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.