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 Aphelocerus tigra OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 6 , 107, 207, 268 ) Holotype : ♀ . Type locality: HONDURAS : Dept. Francisco Morazan , Parque Nacional La Tigra , 1-VI-1993 , coll. M. C. Thomas ( FSCA ) . Paratypes : 5 specimens . Honduras : Departamento de Francisco Morazan , Parque Nacional La Tigre , 1-VI-1999 , P. W. Skillman Jr. ( FWSC , 2: WOPC , 2) ; idem, 1-VI-1993 , R. Turnbow ( RHTC , 1) . D i a g n o s i s: The genus Aphelocerus KIRSCH was revised in 2005 (OPITZ 2005). This work included a key to species. The available Aphelocerus tigra specimens key out to A. capillus OPITZ from which A. tigra specimens differ by showing a narrower elytral anterior white setal patch, and the elytral subapex shows more white setae. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 268 . Color: Black; row of white setae on basal region of elytral sutural margin, these setae not contiguous with anterior white setal patch, elytral disc with two well- developed white setal patches. Head: Interocular depression and frontal umbo shallow; antenna ( Fig. 6 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter and wider towards capitulum, capitulum compact; eyes finely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 15/45). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 107 ) quadrate, very finely punctate; (PW/PL 82/82); elytral disc with well-developed anterior and posterior white setal patches, disc with striae of very small setiferous punctures (EL/EW 230/60). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 207. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during June. D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Honduras . E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, tigra , is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.