Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
Author
OPITZ, WESTON
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2005
2005-05-11
2005
293
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10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
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Aphelocerus ebenus
,
new species
Figure 205
; map 25
HOLOTYPE
: Male.
Panama
:
Pma. Pr.
, Llano
Carti Rd.
, Km.
10, El.
350 m
, 31 May 983, Stockwell (
STRI
). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, hand printed; support card, white, locality label, white, machine printed;
STRI
repository label, white, machine printed;
holotype
label, red, machine printed.)
PARATYPES
: Two specimens from the same locality as the
holotype
, except
one specimen
collected in the vicinity of km 9 on Llano Carti Rd,
4IX1982
(
WOPC
, 2).
DIAGNOSIS: The more convex outer margins of the pronotum will separate the members of this species from the very similar specimens of
A. turnbowi
,
n.sp.
Further, the parameres are significantly narrower in
A. ebenus
,
n.sp.
, than they are in
A. turnbowi
,
n.sp.
DESCRIPTION:
Size
: Length 4.0–
4.5 mm
; width 1.5–2.0 mm.
Integument
: Black.
Vestiture
: Middiscal elytral setal tuft comprised of two patches, anterior patch elongate, oblique, posterior patch reduced.
Head
: Interocular depressions and frontal umbo prominent; width across eyes subequal to width across pronotum (30:35); antenna as in figure 74 for
A. catie
,
n.sp.
Thorax
: Pronotum as long as wide (35:35), considerably narrower than width of elytra across humerus (35:47), anterior transverse depression, moderately impressed, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 15, greatest depth in posterior half 20.
Abdomen
: Male pygidium subtrigonal, posterior margin short.
Male genitalia
: As in figure 205.
NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimens were collected in May or September, at
350 m
.
DISTRIBUTION (map 25): Known only from the
type
locality.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet
ebenus
(of ebony, black) is a Latin adjectival. I refer to the integumentary color of these beetles.