Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2019 2019-12-20 51 2 959 1076 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3746744 3ab3ca17-b957-454a-bdcf-d664740802e6 0253-116X 3746744 Pyticeroides brevitubulus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 76 , 193 , 227 , 304 ) Holotype : ♂. Type locality: PERU : Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Res. , 1250S 6920N, 20-29-X- 1982 , R. C. Wilkerson , Insect flight trap ( FSCA ). D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pyticeroides KUWERT was revised in 2007 ( OPITZ 2007 ). That work included a key to Pyticeroides species. The available specimen of Pyticeroides brevitubulus keys out to P. eurides OPITZ, from which the P. brevitubulus holotype differs by showing a significantly shorter aedeagal phallobase. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm ; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 304 . Color : Cranium castaneous; antenna black; prothorax mostly black, broadly testaceous at sides; pterothorax brown; elytra black; legs bicolorous, mostly black, metafemoral base testaceous, tarsi yellow. Head: Frons deeply concave; antenna ( Fig. 76 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse, compacted, and densely setose, capitular antennomeres 7 and 8 triangular, antennomere 9 ovoid; eyes large, finely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 25/15). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 193 ) transverse (PW/PL 65/50), sides without tubercle, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures small, mostly striate, punctures less striate near sutural margin (EL/EW 310/70); epipleuron well developed, extended to elytral apex; anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; phallobase as in Fig. 227. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during August. D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromPeru. E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, brevitubulus , is a Latin compound name that stems from tubus (= pipe) and brevis (= short); with reference to the short phallobase of the aedeagus.