Taxonomic revision of the Western 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 ardis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 81, 91, 104) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: Equateur, Loja , Abbé Gaujon ( Ecuador ) ( MNHN ) . PARATYPES : 4 specimens . Ecuador : Provincia de Loja , Loja , Abbé Gaujon ( MNHN , 2; WOPC , 2) . D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, thorax black with slightly reddish hue; antennae, legs, and abdomen testaceous; elytra bicolored, basal 3/4 th mostly dark castaneous, apical 1/4 th yellow, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at basal margin, one premedial, proximal to epipleural suture, one postmedial, proximal to sutural margin. R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.5 mm ; width 2.8 mm . Form: As in Fig. 104 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 48/35. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, particularly at side of pronotal arch, pronotum proper finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 130/180); elytral disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend lightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 420/90); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 81. V a r i a t i o n: The available specimens are quite homogeneous. D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 ): This species is known from Ecuador . E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, ardis , is a Greek name with a meaning of "point of an arrow". I refer to the shape of the phallobasic lobes.