Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5038854
0253-116X
5038854
Priocera colima
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 37
,
95
,
123
)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
MEXICO
,
Jalisco
, E, slope Nev. De
Colima
,
14 mi.
SW
Cd. Guzman
,
8000 ft.
, VI-25-VII-6-65,
E. M. Fisher
collector (
WFBM
).
D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one faintly visible at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length
7.2 mm
; width
1.7 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 123
. Head: Cranium wrinkled; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel (
EW
/FW 25/15). Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled, with 2 tumescenses, center of disc depressed, center near base with small linear swelling (
PW
/PL 70/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral distal 3/4
th
(
EL
/EW 320/55); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in
Fig. 37.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The
holotype
was collected during a time frame from June 25 to July 6, at
2,439 m
.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 95
): This species is known from
México
.
E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname,
colima
, is a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.