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
0253-116X
5038854
Priocera mixtura
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(Figs 63, 98, 151)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
Bolivia
,
Plazuela
to
Inquisivi
,?-XIII-1984 (collector not noted) (
WOPC
).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, prothorax, and pterothorax castaneous; antennae, proximal 1/2 of femora, distal 1/2 of tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolored, basal 3/4
th
admixture of white and brown coloration, asetiferous punctures brown, apical 1/5
th
white; abdomen brown
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.0 mm; width
2.2 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 151
. Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, carinose, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel (
EW
/FW 45/20). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely sculptured, carinose, with 2 very prominent tumescenses and centrally located fissure (
PW
/PL 85/130); elytral disc sculptured with substriate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (
EL
/EW 360/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 63.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The
holotype
was collected during August.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 98
): The species is known from
Bolivia
.
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet,
mixtura
, is a Latin word that stems from
miscreo
(= mix); I refer to the admixture of colors on the elytral disc.