Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2021 52 2 1145 1255 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5038854 0253-116X 5038854 Priocera petalosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 68, 98, 157) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: Brazil : Bahia , Itapetinga ,?- XI-1969 , M. Alvarenga ( FSCA ) . PARATYPE :One specimen. Brazil : Estado do Bahia , Villa Victoria,?-?-1890, Ch.Pujol ( MNHN ). D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except elytra bicolored, mostly castaneous, with 3 aggregates of yellow markings, one spot near basal margin, one angular aggregate at midelytron, one spot anterior to elytral apex. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.3 mm . Form: As in Fig. 157 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 50/20). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 110//150); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend posteriorly slightly beyond elytral 1/2 ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 68. D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 98 ): This species is known from the Brazil . E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, petalosa , is a Latin adjective that stems from petalus (= broad), with reference to the comparatively broadened phallobasic lobes.