Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Checkered Beetle GenusPujoliclerusPic (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2014
2014-12-31
68
4
727
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-68.4.727
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.727
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Pujoliclerus alboordinus
Opitz
,
new species
(
Figs. 36
,
65
,
108
,
127
)
Holotype
.
♀
.
PANAMA
:
Coclé
:
El Valle
, 7-I [no year given],
E. Giesbert
(
FSCA
).
Diagnosis.
The white line at the center of the pronotal disc will distinguish the members of this species from other members of the
casselorum
species-group.
Description. Size
: Length 5.0 mm; width
1.8 mm
.
Form
: As in
Fig. 108
.
Integument
: Head mostly light yellow to white, upper frons and epicranium black; antenna mostly brown, last antennomere partially yellow; pronotal disc with 2 broad brown lines aside narrow white line; elytra predominantly brown, epipleural margin broadly white, sutural margin white, apex white; legs mostly white, anterior margin of profemur infuscated; pterothorax and abdomen brown.
Head
: Eyes narrower than frons (10:13); funicular antennomeres slightly expanded, 6
th
antennomere large (
Fig. 36
).
Thorax
: Pronotum quadrate (34:34), lateral tubercle very prominent (
Fig. 65
); epipleural fold gradually diminishing to elytral apex; asetiferous punctures prominent in anterior elytral anterior 2/3.
Abdomen
: Aedeagus not available.
Natural History.
The
type
was collected during January.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality (
Fig. 127
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a Latin compound name that stems from
albus
(= white) and
ordo
(= line). It refers to the white line at the middle of the pronotum.