New Central American and Mexican Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae): Part II
Author
Rifkind, Jacques
text
Zootaxa
2012
3397
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.213050
25b27738-26cd-4231-8a21-bdabd68d7797
1175-5326
213050
Enoclerus boquete
Rifkind
,
n. sp.
(
Fig. 2
)
Type
specimen
.
Holotype
male:
Panamá
,
Boquete
, Prov. Chiriquí,
July 27–30, 1961
,
4000 ft
., J. M. Campbell.
Holotype
deposited in
LACM
.
Diagnosis.
Unique among the small, black, antlike
Enoclerus
of Middle
America
by virtue of its smooth anterior elytral surface. The Panamanian species
E. albosignatus
Ekis
is similar, but has the elytral base distinctly carinate.
Description (
Holotype
). Length: 3.75 mm. Color: black to reddish black; antennal scape and pedicel (in part), palpi, and trochanters testaceous; legs reddish; each elytron bearing a slightly raised, elongate–triangulate, transverse eburneous fascia, complete to lateral margins, narrowing internally where it is interrupted before the suture (
Fig. 2
). Head: broader across than anterior margin of pronotum, antennae elongate, attaining posterior margin of pronotum when laid alongside; club rather elongate and loosely composed; surface densely and coarsely but shallowly rugulo–punctate; vestiture pale, sparse and fine, with a few erect, stouter setae intermixed. Pronotum: longer than broad (25:22), campanulate, broadest at anterior 1/5; transverse impression obscure; disk subflattened above; surface sculpturing as on head; rugae irregularly transverse; vestiture moderately dense but inconspicuous, consisting of short and long, fine and robust, suberect and erect, pale and black setae, mostly directed anteriorly. Elytra: elongate; umbones rounded; sides sinuate, broadest at approximately posterior 1/3; subbasal tumescences very shallow, rounded and smooth above; posterior quite convex in
holotype
(this possibly an artifact of preservation); apices do not appear to be dehiscent; surface shining on anterior 1/3, which is smooth except for shallow, indistinct wrinkling laterally, and a sparse array of mostly erect, mostly robust setae; eburneous fascia smooth, slightly elevated, situated at about anterior 1/3, inconspicuously set with short, suberect white setae; surface posterior to fascia coarsely but very shallowly rugose, with impressions forming vague longitudinal striae; vestiture inconspicuous, composed of fine, rather short, suberect pale setae with a sparser admixture of longer, more robust, erect dark setae. Legs: meso– and metafemora elongate, not particularly swollen at middle.
Etymology.
Named for the
type
locality.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality of
Boquete
, Chiriquí,
Panamá
at an elevation of 4000'.
Boquete
is situated in montane forest, including cloud forest habitat.