Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
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Isoforma goryi
(LAPORTE)
(
Figs 16-23, 27-30
,
71
,
156
,
175
)
Enoplium goryi
LAPORTE, 1836: 54
.
Holotype
: Gender not known.
Cayenne
(
French Guiana
) (
MIZT
).
KLUG 1842: 395
(
Enoplium
).
SPINOLA 1844: 65
(
Platynoptera
).
DESMAREST 1852: 270
(
Platynoptera
)
SCHENKLING 1906: 311
(
Platynoptera
).
CORPORAAL 1950: 273
(
Platynoptera
).
EKIS 1975: 52
(
Platynoptera
).
Diagnosis: There are 17 spines on the anterior margin of the protibia; among congeners, only in specimens of this species are there more than ten.
Description: Size: Length 15.0 mm; width 8.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 156
. Color: Cranium mostly black, with flavotestaceous line behind eyes; pronotum mostly black, upper sides flavotestaceous; elytral disc mostly black, with midelytral flavotestaceous fascia, the humeral angle may be flavotestaceous. Head: Antennal capitulum very long (
Fig. 71
), each capitular antennomere as long as funicle; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 22/35. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin linear, not projected at middle; side margins of disc rounded at middle; PW/PL 100/80; elytra conspicuously flared; disc with 4 discal carinae; EL/EW 200/140. Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at distal margin.
Natural history: One specimen was collected in August.
Variation: Size: length 10.0-15.0 mm; width 4.0-8.0 mm. The flavotestaceous macula on the humeral angle varies in expression.
Distribution (
Fig. 175
): In addition to the
type
, I examined
2 specimens
from:
French Guiana
, Region de Petit-Saut fleuve Sinnamary,
4.VIII.1994
, ex. Larva, G. Tavakilian. Specimens are deposited in MNHN and WOPC.