Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2015 2015-12-30 47 2 1513 1572 journal article 55551 10.5281/zenodo.5282503 c1dc4996-f173-4272-99a9-bb1bcae9c67a 0253-116X 5282503 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.