New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13153564
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13153564
Enoclerus tucuman
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 58
,
107
)
T y p e m a t e r i a l:
Holotype
: ♁. Type locality:
Argentina
, 800,
Tucuman
,
Ciudad Universitaria
,
18-II-1959
,
J. F.G. Clarke
(
WFBM
)
.
Paratypes
:
3 specimens
.
ARGENTINA
:
Provincia de Córdaba
;
Córdaba
,?-9-1939,
M. J. Viana
(
MNHN
, 1;
WOPC
, 1)
;
idem,
La Criolla
,?-
I-1903
,
1,500 m
.
G. A. Baer
(
MNHN
, 1)
.
D i a g n o s i s: Antennae testaceous; prothorax bicolorous; pronotum mostly black, partly testaceous; pterothorax testaceous; elytra base slightly testaceous, rest of elytra black, but elytra with three yellow markings; elytral apex setose; legs testaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 58
. Head. (EW/FW 20/60). Thorax: Subapical depression well defined; pronotal and elytral discs finely punctate; (PL/PW-110/110); (EL/EW 270/75). Abdomen: Aedeagus (
Fig. 107
).
V a r i a t i o n: Length 5.0-7-0 mm; width 1.0-
1.2 mm
. The pronotum may entirely testaceous.
E t y m o l o g y: The species name,
tucuman
, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.