New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13153564
0253-116X
13153564
Enoclerus paula
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 46
, 98)
T y p e m a t e r i a l:
Holotype
: ♁. Type locality:
Brazil
, (
Rio Grande do Sul
), S FCO
de Paula
,
Pró-Mata
,
12-XII-1997
, Leg. Roland Mecke (
WFBM
)
.
Paratype
:
1 specimen
.
BRAZIL
:
Estado
do
Minas Gerais
;?-?-1907 (MNHN, 1).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, antenna, and legs flavotestacous; pronotum bicolorous, black and flavotestaceous; elytra with yellow punctiform marking; elytra tricolorous, basal 1/3 flavotestacous, then with white lunar-shaped fascia followed by broad black fascia, elytra apex flavotestaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 46
. Head: Capitulum slightly acuminate; (EW/FW 20/50). Thorax: Elytral disc partially roughly punctate; (PL/PW 90/90); (EL/EW 240/60). Abdomen: Aedeagus (Fig. 98).
E t y m o l o g y: The species name,
paula
, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.