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 odegaardi OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 65, 93, 154 ) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: PANAMA : Panama , Pr. Nat. Metropolitano , 26 June 1993 , leg. F. Odegaard. A second label reads: On Ficus insipida (FSCA) . PARATYPES : 2 specimens . Costa Rica: Provincia de Cartago , Turrialba, no other information available ( USNM ). Panamá : Panamá , Parque Nacional Metropolitano, 26-VI-1995 , F. Ødegaard ( WOPC ). D i a g n o s i s: Color: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, anterior and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, mesofemora and metafemora infuscated along dorsal margin, tibiae brown, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, with broad, testaceous diagonal marking extending obliquely from humeral angle, apical 1/2 testaceous, except with narrow, faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 3 yellow markings, one spot at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one spot oblong, diagonally positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one faintly visible spot behind middle near sutural margin. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.1 mm ; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 154 . Head: Eyes very large; frons very narrow, narrower than length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 30/3). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure ( PW /PL 48/80); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded ( EL /EW 210/45); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 65. V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.1-8.2 mm ; width 1.0- 1.7 mm . Other than body size, the available beetles are quite homogeneous. N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during June. Frode Ødegaard collected two specimens on Ficus incipida WILLD. ( Moraceae ). D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 93 ): This species is known from Costa Rica and Panamá . E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, odegaardi, is a patronymic that honors Frode Ødegaard for his many contributions to Entomology.