Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2019 2019-12-20 51 2 959 1076 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3746744 3ab3ca17-b957-454a-bdcf-d664740802e6 0253-116X 3746744 Pujoliclerus trunculus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 19 , 254 , 349) Holotype : ♂ . Type locality: BOLIVIA : Santa Cruz Dist. Potrerillos del Guenda , Preserva Natural , 17°40'S 63°27'W , 370 m , 1-4-OCT-2007 , Wappes & Morris , ex. MV/BL ( FSCA ) . Paratypes : 5 specimens . Bolivia : Departamento de Santa Cruz , Potrerillos del Guenda , 23-30-X-2013 , Wappes & Kuckartz (ACMT, 1; WOPC , 1) ; idem, 40 km NW Santa Cruz de la Sierra : Huaico , 17°40'S- 063°26'W , 28-X-2013 , J. E. Wappes ( ACMT , 1) ; Buena Vista , Flora & Fauna Hotel , 21- 25-X-2003 , Morris , Nearns , Wappes ( RFMC , 1) ; 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista , Hotel Flora & Fauna , 5- 15-Xi- 2001 , 430 m, M. C. Thomas ( FSCA , 1).. D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d ). This work included a key to species. Pujoliclerus trunculus specimens key to P . wappesi OPITZ from which P. trunculus specimens differ in showing a much more elongated capitulum. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.8 mm . Form: As in Fig. 349 . Color: Cranium bicolorous, clypeus and lower frons, and cranial venter yellow, upper frons and epicranium black; antenna mostly black, disc of capitular antennomeres slightly lighter; prothorax tricolorous, pronotal basal 1/3 rd black, anterior 2/3 rd mostly yellow, disc slightly infuscated, pronotal sternum yellow; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly brown, epipleural margin yellow to elytral apex; legs mostly yellow, tibiae and tarsi infuscated. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 19 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter to capitulum; capitular antennomeres extraordinarily oblong/ subrectangulate; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye much wider than frons (EW/FW 30/12). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 140 ) quadrate (PW/PL 65/65), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 9 striae of asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 220/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 254. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during October and November, one at 370 m , another at 400 m . D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia . E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, trunculus , is a Latin name that stems from truncus (= cut off); about the shape of the distal region of the male 5 th visible abdominal sternite.