Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5038854
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5038854
Priocera angulata
SCHENKLING
,
1900
(
Figs 26
,
91
,
101
)
Priocera angulata
SCHENKLING, 1900: 387
.
HOLOTYPE
:
♀
. Type locality:
Goyaz
, Bras. (
Goias
,
Brazil
) (
SDEI
)
.
PARATYPE
: One specimen.
Brazil
:
Estado do
Goias
, Jatai,?-
XII-1997
-?-
I-1998
, collector not noted (
SDEI
).
A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (
Fig.91
):
Inadditiontothetypes, I
examined
8 specimens
from:
Brazil
:
Estado
do
Mato Grosso
,
Sinop
,?-
X-1975
,
M.Alvarenga
;
Rio Caraguata
,?-
XII-
1953
, 400 m,
F. Plaumann
;
Estado
do
Mato Grosso
do
Sur
,
Trés Lagoas
,
International Paper
,
Rio Verde
,
30-XI-1993
, ethanol baited FIT, cerrado fragment,
Flechtman
;
Estado
do
Rondonia
,
7 km
E Costa Marques
,
11-23-IV-1977
,
Malaise trap
,
T. Kline
;
Estado
do
Goias
,
Jatai
,?-
XII-1897
-
I-1898
, collector not noted
;
idem,
Mineiro
,?-?-1912,
H. Donckier
;
Rio Verde
,?-?-1908,
G. A. Baer. Specimens
are deposited in:
MNHM
,
SDEI
,
UEPB
,
USNM
, and
WOPC
.
D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except elytra bicolorous, mostly castaneous, with yellow speckles in basal 1/2, apical 1/2 with oblique yellow angular fascia at middle and short yellow oblique line in front of apex; legs bicolorous, distal 1/2 of femora and proximal 1/2 of tibiae testaceous, distal 1/2 of femora and distal 1/2 of tibiae and tarsi dark brown.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width
2.5 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 101
. Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 65/20. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure (
PW
/PL 130//170); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (
EL
/EW 460/75); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in
Fig. 26.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0-12.0 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. The yellow speckles on the elytral disc may be white.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during April, September, and October, from southern
Brazil
at
400 m
.