Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
Division of Plant Industry / Entomology, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1911 SW 34 Street, Gainesville, Florida 32608 - 7100, USA
text
Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-02-24
2022
913
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.6391885
1942-1354
6391885
78496742-E381-477E-BAA7-2D14868E6253
Onychotillus lineatus
Opitz
,
new species
Figure 14
.
Type material.
Holotype
:
Female. Type locality:
Dominican Republic
,
Provincia
de
Santiago
,
San José
de las
Matas
,
VI-1938
,
1,000–2,000 feet
, Darlington (
MCZC
).
Diagnosis.
The cranium and legs are bicolorous, the pronotum is yellow, the elytra are violaceous. These characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
Description.
Size.
Length
5.7 mm
; width
1.7 mm
.
Form.
As in
Fig. 14
.
Color.
Antenna black, pronotum yellow, but pronotal collar slightly brown, legs bicolorous, elytra violaceous.
Head.
Cranium finely punctate, frons much wider than length of pedicel; EW/FW 15/40.
Thorax.
Pronotum finely punctate, oblong, expanded at middle 1/2; subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow; PW/PL 65/70; elytral punctations striate, striae not reduced near elytral apex; EL/EW 240/110; short elytral setae decumbent, long elytral setae recumbent.
Abdomen.
Aedeagus not available for study.
Distribution.
This species is known from
the Dominican
Republic.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
lineatus
,
is a Latin word that translates to “of a line”.