Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part Ii. The Genera Chaetophloeus Opitz And Plocamocera Spinola
Author
OPITZ, WESTON
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2004
2004-01-09
2004
280
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282004%29280%3C0001%3ACNHAEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2004)280<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5354624
Plocamocera bispina
,
new species
Figures 154
,
202
; map 7
HOLOTYPE
: Female.
Brazil
:
Matto Grosso
:
Rio Caraguata
, 21
°
48
̍
, 52
°
27
̍
,
XII
1953
, 400 m alt.,
Fritz Plaumann
(
FMNH
). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine and hand printed;
FMNH
repository label, white, machine printed.)
PARATYPES
: None.
DIAGNOSIS: Within the
coactilis
species group,
P. bispina
specimens are readily identified by the following combination of characteristics: Cranium piceous, protibial anterior margin with two spines.
DESCRIPTION:
Size
: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm.
Integument
: Cranium piceous; pronotum castaneous; elytra variegated, with flavous humeral macula that divides posteriorly, postmedial fascia angular, transverse, extend ed to sutural margin; profemur predominantly flavotestaceous, mesofemur predominantly castaneous, metafemur flavotestaceous in basal half, piceous in remainder; tibiae progressively more infuscated from proto metatibia.
Head
: Antennal club as in figure 154.
Thorax
: Pronotal anterior margin moderately projected at middle; pronotal discal swelling shallow, pronotal arch feebly scabrous; elytral epipleural margin with five conspicuous trichobothria; protibial anterior margin with two spines.
Abdomen
: Female pygidium broadscutiform.
VARIATION: Not observed.
NATURAL HISTORY: The available specimen was collected from the
type
locality during December.
DISTRIBUTION (map 7): Known only from the
type
locality.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a compound name formulated from the Latin prefix
by
(two) and the Latin noun
spina
(thorn). I refer to the two spines on the protibia.