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 marajoara
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(Figs 58, 92, 146)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
Amazonas
,
Bates
(
Brazil
) (
BMNH
).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, lower sides and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, black along dorsal margin, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, testaceous line extends backwards from humeral angle, apical 1/2 yellow except with faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 2 yellow markings, one oblong at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one triangular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 146
. Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel (
EW
/FW 45/5). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure (
PW
/PL 70/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend a short distance beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (
EL
/EW 270/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidial distal margin rounded; aedeagus as in Fig. 58.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 92
): This species is known from
Brazil
.
E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name,
morajoara
, is a patronymic that honors the Amazonian Morajoara pre-Columbian culture, which once flourished on Morajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River, in
Brazil
.