Taxonomic revision of the Western 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 ensis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 43, 89, 130) HOLOTYPE : ♂ . Type locality: Equeteur , Soja ( Ecuador ), COLL DE GAULLE, 1910 ( MNHN ). D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black, thorax dark castaneous; antenna, legs and abdomen testaceous; elytra mostly dark castaneous, apical 1/4 th testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at elytral base, one in front of middle near epipleural margin, one behind middle near sutural margin. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 11.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 130 . Head: Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than width of eye and length of antennal pedicel ( EW /FW 47/57). Thorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, with 2 tumescenses ( PW /PL 79/107); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend just beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 400/110); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter towards femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 43. D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 89 ): This species is known from Ecuador . E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, ensis , is a Latin noun with the meaning of "sword"; with reference to the shape of the aedeagus.