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 Sirpa latiflava OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 58 , 157 , 258 , 354 ) Holotype : ♂ . Type locality: PERU , Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Res. , 30 km (air) sw Pto. Maldonado , 290 m , 12°50'S 069°20'W . A second label reads: Smithsonian Institution , Canopy Fogging Project , T. L. Erwin et al colls. 10Sep84 , 02/02/04. A third label reads: 0053682 ( USNM ). Paratype : 1 specimen . Peru : Region Tambopata , Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Res. , 30 km (air) SW Puerto Maldonado , 12°50'S 069°20'W , 8-IX- 1984 , 290 m , T. L. Erwin ( USNM ). D i a g n o s i s: In 2016, OPITZ published a key to the species of Sirpa OPITZ ( OPITZ 2016: 262 ). Sirpa latiflava specimens key out to S. parva OPITZ from which S. latiflava specimens differ by showing a more transverse pronotum that is also more convex and a much broader aedeagus. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.2 mm ; width 1.8 mm . Form: As in Fig. 354 . Color: Cranium mostly testaceous, with broad black marking that covers upper frons and epicranium; prothorax mostly testaceous, pronotum broadly black at middle; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen dark brown; elytra mostly testaceous, black at base of sutural margin and in elytral apical region. Head: Eye coarsely facetted, as wide as frons (EW/FW 24/24); antenna capitate ( Fig. 58 ), funicular antennomeres subfiliform, gradually shorter and wider to capitulum, capitulum sex dimorphic, slightly longer in male, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular, antennomere 11 subrectangulate. Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 157 ) transverse, lateral tubercles slightly defined (PW/PL 80/60), disc coarsely punctate; asetiferous punctures profusely distributed on elytral disc, epipleural margin prominent, narrows to elytral apex (EL/EW 235/65). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 258. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected in September, at 290 m . 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, latiflava , is a Latin compound name that stems from latus (= side) and flavis (= yellow); with reference to the color of the sides of the elytra.