Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) Author OPITZ, WESTON text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 2005-05-11 2005 293 1 128 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2005)293%3C0001%3ACNHAEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5362748 IRRORATUS GROUP Aphelocerus irroratus , new species Figures 34 , 63 , 132 ; map 9 HOLOTYPE : Female. Guatemala , Guat., Antigua, 2000 m , 20­VI­1973 , Ginter Ekis ( AMNH ). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card; locality label, white, machine printed; AMNH repository label, red, machine printed, holotype label, red, machine printed.) Figs. 154–157. Aedeagi. 154. Aphelocerus ciliaris . 155. A. coalitus 156. A. coactus . 157. A. nitidus . PARATYPES : Twenty­seven specimens. Four from the same locality as the holotype ( USNM , 1; JNRC , 1; WOPC , 2). Mexico : Chiapas: 6.4 km N Bochil , 4­V­1969 , H. F. Howden ( CMNC , 1). Guatemala : 4 km W Sta. Catarina Pinula, 1800 m, 13­VI­1991 , H. Howden ( CMNC , 1): El Progresso : above Los Albores , 2439 m , 7–8­IV­1991 , E. Giesbert ( WOPC , 1): Sacatepequez : Capetillo ( BMNH , 4) ; Finca San Rafael , 27­VI­1948 , 2103 m, R. D. Mitchell ( FMNH , 1) ; 19–24 km N. Salama , 25–31­IV­1989 , 1371 m, J. E. Wappes ( JEWC , 1): Baja Verapaz : 7.8 km W Chilasco , 1700 m , 24­V­1991 , H. & A. Howden ( CMNC , 1) ; 24 km N Salama , Pantin , 21­IV­1995 , E. Giesbert , J. Monzon ( WOPC , 1) ; 19–24 km N Salama , 1371 km , 25–31­IV­1989 , E. Giesbert ( FSCA , 1), San Jeronimo ( BMNH , 1) ; 9 km S San Jeronimo , BVP, 25­VI­1966 , 1371 m, J. M. Campbell ( CNCI , 1): Zacapa : Rd. to San Lorenzo, 1288 m , 4­IV­1991 , E. Giesbert ( FSCA , 1; WOPC , 1) ; 158049N, 898569W, Las Nubes near La Trinidad , 1900 m , 27­IV­1997 , M. E. Erwin ( WOPC , 1) ; Guatemala City ( MNHN , 1): Quetzaltenango : 3.0 km SE Zunil, NW slope Vol. Zunil , 148469N, 918289W, 18­VIII­ 1974 ( USNM , 1), 8 km SW Zunil , 1585 m , 18­VI­1993 ; F. Genier , hand collected ( WOPC , 1) ; 1288 m , 20–21­IV­1996 , E. Giesbert & J. Monzon ( FSCA , 1) ; Guatemala : Nebaj , 1829 m , 9­VII­1947 , C. & P. Vaurie ( AMNH , 2) . DIAGNOSIS: The fine punctiform microsculpture (fig. 34) on the elytral disc anterior to the middiscal setal tuft will separate the members of this species from congeners. DESCRIPTION: Size : Length 4.3–5.6 mm , width 1.7–2.1 mm Integument : Cyanescent, except elytra piceous. Vestiture : Basal third of elytral disc densely vested with short, very fine white setae conspicuous along epipleural margin; generally integument vested predominately with dark setae; metepisternal, sutural, and elytral discal tuft well developed, latter bipartite, setae of anterior patch directed anteriorly, setae of posterior patch directed towards epipleural margin. Head : Width across eyes narrower than width across pronotum (23:27); finely punctate; interocular depression and frontal umbo shallow; antenna as in figure 63. Thorax : Pronotum subequal in width and length, narrow­ er than width of elytra across humeri (27: 31); elytral depth at humerus 15, greatest depth in posterior half 20. Male genitalia : Aedeagus (fig. 132) short; ventral sinus twice length of dorsal sinus. NATURAL HISTORY: In June, in Antigua , Guatemala , I collected four specimens at 2000 m by beating a stand of roadside hedgerow adjacent to an extensive pine forest. Oth­ er specimens were taken from June to August, by ‘‘sweeping herbs in cleared fields’’ and by ‘‘beating dead leaves’’, at altitudes ranging from 518 to 2439 m . DISTRIBUTION (map 9): This species ranges from the highlands of Chiapas , Mexico , to the southern extension of the Sierra Madre of Guatemala . ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet irroratus is a Latin adjective denoting ‘‘covered with granules’’ and it is used in reference to the granular condition on the surface of the basal third of the elytra.