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 campbelli
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 32
,
91
,
115
)
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
. Type locality:
Brazil
,
São Paulo
, Fazenda Campininas,
Mogi Guacu, I
, 1-8, 1970,
J. M. & B. A. Campbell
(
CNCI
).
D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antennae testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5
th
, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at middle of basal margin, one premedial irregularly, shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length
6.5 mm
; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 115
. Head: Frons slightly wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 33/11. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, finely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle (
PW
/PL 70/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral 2/3, latter partly rounded (
EL
/EW 270/66); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in
Fig. 32.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig. 91
): The species is known from
Brazil
.
E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname,
campbelli
, honors J. Milton Campbell for his many contributions to Systematic Entomology.