Taxonomic revision of the West ern 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 hovorei OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 92 , 137 ) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: Ecuador , Pichincha Prov. , Tinalandia , 12-IV-1997 , F. Hovore coll. ( CSCA ) . PARATYPES : 3 specimens . Colombia : Departamento de Cauca , Valle de Cauca, 4 km NW San Antonio , 4-VII-1958 , 1,982 m , A.H. Miller ( EMEC , 1). Ecuador : Provincia de Pichincha , 10 km W Nanegalito , 6-I-2002 , F. T. Hovore ( WOPC , 1) ; Provincia de Cotopaxi , 2 km N Las Pampas , 10-12-IV-1997 , E. Giesbert & F. Hovore ( FSCA , 1) . D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, prothorax, and pterothorax castaneous; antennae, proximal 1/2 of femora, distal 1/2 of tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; elytra tricolored, admixture of yellow, brown, and testaceous. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 2.2 mm . Form: As in Fig. 137 . Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 45/11). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctured at middle, shallowly carinose at sides, with 2 very prominent tumescenses and centrally located fissure ( PW /PL 85/140); elytral disc sculptured with substriate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 370/70); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus examined, then lost. V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 9.0-11.0 mm; width 2.2-3.0 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous. N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during, January, April, and July at altitudes that range from 1,450 m to 1,982 m . D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 92 ): This species is known from Ecuador . E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, hovorei , is a dedicative patronymic that honors Frank T. Hovore for his outstanding contributions to beetle taxonomy.