Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5038854
0253-116X
5038854
Priocera brunnea
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(Figs 83, 94, 112)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
Guatemala
,
Escuintla
,
Pantaleon
,
1,700 feet
,
Champion
(
BMNH
).
D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antennae testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5
th
, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at middle of basal margin, one premedial, irregularly shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse, postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 112
. Head: Frons wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 35/12. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, coarsely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle (
PW
/PL 80/110); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral apex, latter rounded (
EL
/EW 280/65); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 83.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 94
): The species is known from
Guatemala
.
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet,
brunnea
, is a name that stems from "brown".