Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
Author
OPITZ, WESTON
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2005
2005-05-11
2005
293
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journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
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Aphelocerus acuticolis
,
new species
Figures 197
, 215, 235; map 27
HOLOTYPE
: Male:
Mexico
:
Chiapas
,
2.6 km
S
La Trinitaria
,
19–Oct. 1988
,
R. Turnbow
(
AMNH
). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed;
AMNH
repository label, white, machine printed;
holotype
label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)
PARATYPES
: Two specimens with the same locality data as the
holotype
(
RHTC 1
;
WOPC
, 1)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Distinguishable from the superficially similar specimens of
A. bispinous
,
n.sp.
, by the more globose pronotum, lack of setal tuft on the lower sides of the pronotum, and castaneous mouthparts.
DESCRIPTION:
Size
: Length
4.5–5.1 mm
, width 1.5–2.0 mm.
Integument
: Maxillae and labium castaneous, remainder black.
Vestiture
: Sutural tuft absent; midelytron with narrow band of white setae, setae oriented in various directions.
Head
: Width across eyes feebly narrower than width across pronotum (20:21); clypeus and frons coarsely punctate, vertex finely punctate; eyes subspherical, moderately convex; antenna as in figure 215.
Thorax
: Pronotum equal in width and length (21:21), considerably narrower than width across humeri (21:27), finely punctate, anterior transverse depression well developed, side margins strongly arcuate; elytra feebly convex in posterior half, depth at humerus 9, greatest depth in posterior half 12, surface shallowly rugose.
Abdomen
: Pygidial poste rior margin evenly arcuate; aedeagus as in figure 197; paramere with medial acumination.
NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens have been collected during October.
DISTRIBUTION (map 27): Known only from the
type
locality.
ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin adjective
acuti
(pointed) and the Latin noun
colis
(penis). I refer to the spinal development of the parameres of the tegment.