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 1 128 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2005)293%3C0001%3ACNHAEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5362748 Aphelocerus citimus , new species Figures 53 , 123 ; map 21 HOLOTYPE : Male. Mexico , Ver., Jalapa , Botanical Gardens , 9 June 1983 , 1320 m, C. & L. O’Brien & G. B. Marshall ( LACM ). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, hand printed; support card, white, locality label, white, machine printed; LACM repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.) PARATYPES : None. DIAGNOSIS: The available specimen superficially resembles the member of A. inconstans (Gorham) , but in citimus beetles the lower aspects of the pronotum lack the dense aggregate of the white setae. DESCRIPTION: Size : Length 6.2 mm ; width 2.2 mm . Integument : Cranium, pronotum, pterothorax, and abdomen cyanescent; elytra and legs black. Vestiture : Apical half of elytra densely vested with patch of variously oriented setae; legs vested with white setae. Head : Interocular depressions and frontal umbo shallow; width across eyes equal to width across pronotum (40:40); antenna as in figure 53. Thorax : Pronotum longer than wide (47:40), considerably narrower than width of elytra across humerus (40:50), anterior transverse depression well developed, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra shallow, depth at humerus 20, greatest depth in posterior half 25. Abdomen : Male pygidium with posterior margin evenly arcuate. Male genitalia : As in figure 123. Figs. 43–46. Habitus views. 43. Aphelocerus panus , dorsal. 44. A. dispilis , dorsal. 45. A. formicoides , dorsal. 46. A. dispilis , lateral. NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected in June, at 1320 m . DISTRIBUTION (map 21): Southeastern Mexico . ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin citimus (nearest). I refer to the superficial resemblance between specimens of A. citimus n.sp. , and those of A. inconstans (Gorham) .