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 51 2 959 1076 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3746744 3ab3ca17-b957-454a-bdcf-d664740802e6 0253-116X 3746744 Amboakis collucoatis OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 82 , 117 , 285 ) Holotype : ♀ . Type locality: Bolivia , Yungas La Paz , Puente Mururrata to Suapi. A second label reads: 1200-1600 m , 25-28.XI.1984 , L. E. Peña leg. ( FSCA ). D i a g n o s i s: This beetle shows a black cranium and a pronotum that is testaceous at the apical and basal margins. The remainder of the pronotal disc is dark brown. This combination of characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. The genus Amboakis OPITZ was established in 2006 (OPITZ 2006). D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.3 mm ; width 1.3 mm . Form: As in Fig. 285 . Color: Cranium black; antenna black, except scape testaceous; prothorax bicolored, venter testaceous; pronotum bicolored, apical and basal margins broadly testaceous, remainder of pronotal disc dark brown; pterothorax and abdomen dark brown; elytra bicolored, mostly black, with short oblique testaceous line extending posteriorly from humeral angle, and with oblique testaceous fascia just behind elytral middle; legs testaceous, except tarsi black. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 82 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 11 ovoid; eyes large, finely facetted, ocular notch large, eye as wide as frons (EW/FW 20/20). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 117 ) transverse (PW/PL 55/48), anterior transverse depression deeply impressed; disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures arranged into 10 striae (EL/EW 220/45); anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during November, at an altitude between 1200-1600 m . D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia . E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, collucoatis , is a Latin name that stems from colluco (= thin); with reference to the body form of this beetle.