Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae) Author Opitz, Weston text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2019 2019-12-20 51 2 959 1076 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3746744 3ab3ca17-b957-454a-bdcf-d664740802e6 0253-116X 3746744 Cregya petalosa OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 60 , 112 , 324 ) Holotype : ♀ . Type locality: ECUADOR : Orellana , 1 km S Okone Gare Camp , Reserva Etnica Waorani , 220-250 m , 25-VI-1994 , T. L. Erwin ( USNM ). D i a g n o s i s: The wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm ; width 1.5 mm . Form: As in Fig. 324 . Color: Cranium black. antenna bicolored, fundus and last antennomere yellow, antennomeres 8 and 9 brown; pronotum yellow, except pronotal arch black; mesosternum, femora, and abdomen yellow; metasternum, tibiae, and tarsi dark brown; elytra mostly dark brown, with broad testaceous vitta that extends from elytral posterior 2/3 rd to elytral basal margin; epipleural margin testaceous from humeral angle to posterior 2/3 rd . Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 60 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 large triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 24/30). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 112 ) transverse (PW/PL 80/70), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate at elytral distal 3/4 th (EL/EW 220/65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in June, by fogging tree canopy, at an altitude between 220- 250 m . D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Ecuador . E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, petalosa , is a Greek adjective that stems from petalos (= broad); with reference to the wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc.