Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Checkered Beetle GenusPujoliclerusPic (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae) Author Opitz, Weston text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2014 2014-12-31 68 4 727 756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-68.4.727 journal article 10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.727 10110416 CD987054-035A-4A5B-B488-EEA35F632F23 Pujoliclerus megalus Opitz , new species ( Figs. 40 , 70 , 112 , 125 ) Holotype . ♀ . COLOMBIA : Santander del Norte , Prima , 1-700 m , 29-V-1965 , J. & B. Bechyne ( FSCA ). Diagnosis. This species is distinguishable from superficially similar specimens of P . flavoapicalus by the less robustly lobate funicular antennomeres. Description. Size : Length 7.0 mm; width 2.1 mm . Form : As in Fig. 112 . Integument : Head yellow, epicranium with black streak; antenna mostly brown, last antennomere yellow; pronotal disc black, remainder yellow; elytra predominantly brown, epipleural margin broadly yellow, sutural margin narrowly yellow; legs mostly yellow, anterior margin infuscated; ptero- t h o r a x a n d a b d o m e n b r o w n. Head : E y e s wider than frons (18:14); funicular antennomeres considerably expanded, 6 th antennomere very large ( Fig. 40 ). Thorax : Pronotum transverse (46:42), lateral tubercle very prominent ( Fig. 70 ); elytron with lateral ridge mesad to epipleural fold, epipleural fold gradually diminishing to elytral apex; asetiferous punctures prominent in anterior elytral 2/3. Abdomen : Aedeagus not available. Figs. 48–61. Pujoliclerus species , pronota. 48) P. helvinus ; 49) P. maracayensis ; 50) P. modestus ; 51) P. bilineatus ; 52) P. calceatus ; 53) P. corumba ; 54) P. flavolimbatus ; 55) P. ovatus ; 56) P. wappesi ; 57) P. amplus ; 58) P. flavoapicalus ; 59) P. gilvus ; 60) P. hermani ; 61) P. orellana . Natural History. The type was collected during May, at an altitude between 1 and 700 m . Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Colombia ( Fig. 125 ). Etymology. The specific epithet is a Greek adjective that stems from megas (= large) and refers to the extraordinary large size of antennomere 6.