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 hadrosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 49, 92, 136) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: Balsapamba, Prov. Bolivar ( Ecuador ), M. de Mathan , III. IV.1894 ( MNHN ). D i a g n o s i s: Cranium mostly testaceous, epicranium infuscated; antennae flavotestaceous; prothorax bicolored, venter testaceous, pronotum testaceous, with black angular markings at sides; pterothorax black; elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, with admixture of brown markings, one rectangulate brown patch at elytral middle 1/3 rd and contiguous with sutural margin, each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one punctiform at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one short, transverse in front of middle near epipleural margin, one short oblique, behind middle near sutural margin. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm . Form: As in Fig. 136 . Head: Cranium finely punctate, frons narrow, about as wide as the length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 35/7). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 70/100); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 260/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Abdominal ventrite V deeply widely emarginate distally; phallobasic loop about as long as remainder of phallobase; aedeagus as in Fig. 49. N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected from Ecuador during April. D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 92 ): This species is known from Ecuador . E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, hadrosa is a Greek name that stems from "hodros" (= well developed); with reference to the well-developed phallobasic loop.