Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Checkered Beetle GenusPujoliclerusPic (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae) Author Opitz, Weston text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2014 2014-12-31 68 4 727 756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-68.4.727 journal article 10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.727 10110416 CD987054-035A-4A5B-B488-EEA35F632F23 Pujoliclerus alajuela Opitz , new species ( Figs. 32 , 63 , 106 , 127 ) Holotype . ♀ . Sect. San Ramon de Dos Rios , Prov. Alaju., COSTA RICA , 620 m , 16 ENE FEB 1995 , C. Cano ( INBC ). Paratype . One specimen. COSTA RICA : Puntarenas : Quebrada Bonita , X-1989 , 50 m, R. B. Carara , X-1989 , R. Zuniga ( WOPC ) . Diagnosis. This species is distinguishable from the superficially similar specimens of P. megacavus by the smaller size of the elytral punctures. Description. Size : Length 5.0 mm; width 1.4 mm . Form : As in Fig. 106 . Integument : Head mostly yellow, frons black; antenna brown; pronotum tricolorous, anterior margin narrowly white, then reddish brown, then black, base black and disc with a black streak; elytra mostly brown, apex white; legs mostly yellow, infuscated; pterothorax and abdomen brown. Head : Eyes narrower than frons (10:12); funicular antennomeres moderately expanded, 6 th antennomere enlarged ( Fig. 32 ). Thorax : Pronotum quadrate (31:31), lateral tubercle very prominent ( Fig. 63 ); epipleural fold gradually narrowed to elytral apex, asetiferous punctures prominent to distal elytral 2/3. Abdomen : Aedeagus not available. Variation. The two specimens examined are quite homogeneous. Natural History. Specimens were collected during February and October, at altitudes ranging from 50 to 620 m . Distribution. Known only from Costa Rica ( Fig. 127 ). Etymology. The specific epithet, alajuela , constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.