Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2019
2019-12-20
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3746744
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0253-116X
3746744
Cregya entrerios
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 48a
,
139
, 361)
Holotype
: ♂. Type locality:
ARGENTINA
,
I.1990
, Prov.
Entre Rios
, Dept. Colon,
Liebig
(
RGCG
).
D i a g n o s i s: The three-pronged testaceous marking near the the base of the elytral sutural margin will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width
1.3 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 361
. Color: Cranial dorsum dark brown, venter light brown; antenna, legs, and abdomen testaceous; prothorax mostly brown, pronotum with two paralateral black vittae, venter yellow; pterothorax dark brown; elytra bicolorous, disc mostly dark brown, epipleural margin broadly testaceous to elytral apex, sutural margin broadly testaceous to elytral apex, anteriorly testaceous sutural margin transforms to three-pronged testaceous marking. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna (
Fig. 48a
) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 20/30). Thorax: Pronotum (
Fig. 139
) quadrate (PW/PL 70/70), disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 9 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate near elytral apex (EL/EW 200/45). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus examined, then lost.
N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The
holotype
was collected during January.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from
Argentina
.
E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name,
entrerios
, is a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.