Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2015 2015-12-30 47 2 1513 1572 journal article 55551 10.5281/zenodo.5282503 c1dc4996-f173-4272-99a9-bb1bcae9c67a 0253-116X 5282503 Platynoptera ampliata (KLUG) ( Fig . 167) Holotype : Gender not known. Brasilien ( Brazil ). ( NHMB ) . Schenkling, 1903: 103 ; 1906: 311 . Diagnosis: This is the only member of Platynoptera whose elytral disc is entirely or almost entirely black; there may be a faintly visible pale spot at the center of the disc. Description: Size: Length 16.0 mm; width 8.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 167 . Color: Cranium black, vertex with narrow flavotestaceous streak, labrum flavotestaceous; pronotum bicolorous, sides and front flavotestaceous, disc black; elytra mostly black, with two faintly visible maculae at the middle of disc. Head: Antennal capitulum long, each capitular antennomere longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 45/45. Thorax: Pronotum quadrate, flared at sides, anterior margin projected at middle, side margin of disc rounded; PW/PL 160/160; elytra strongly flared at sides, disc with 4 carina; EL/EW 780/220. Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at distal margin. Variation: Size: length 12.0-16.0 mm; width 6.0-8.0 mm. In one specimen the elytral disc is entirely black. Distribution: I examined two specimens from: Brazil , Minas, Caraça. Specimens are deposited in NHMB, MNHN, WOPC.