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 bibulla
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 31
,
91
,
109
)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
Colombia
(no other information noted on label) (
FSCA
).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, prothorax, and pterothorax castaneous; antennae, proximal 1/2 of femora, distal 1/2 of tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; elytra tricolored, each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one marking at middle of elytral base, one angular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, and one divided marking behind middle approaching sutural margin.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 10.0 mm; width
1.2 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 109
. Head: Cranium coarsely sculptured, carinose, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel (
EW
/FW 50/20). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctured, with 2 very prominent tumescenses and centrally located fissure (
PW
/PL 100/160); elytral disc sculptured with substriate asetiferous punctures that extend slightly beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (
EL
/EW 470/90); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in
Fig. 31.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 91
): This species is known from
Colombia
.
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet,
bibulla
, is a Latin compound name derived from
bulla
(= knob) and the prefix
bi
- (= two); with regard to the two tumescences on the pronotum.