Amboakis bermejo, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 975

Amboakis bermejo OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 67 , 190 , 218 , 284 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz Dist. 4 km N Bermejo, Refugio Los Volcanes , 18°05'S 63°26'W, 1000 m, 05-Oct-2007, J. E. Wappes, Ex. blacklight/mercury vapor light ( FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: These specimens have a yellow cranium and the pronotum is widely yellow at the sides. These characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. The genus Amboakis OPITZ was established in 2006 (OPITZ 2006).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.0 mm; width 1.1 mm. Form: As in Fig. 284 . Color: Cranium testaceous; antenna black; prothorax bicolorous, venter and pronotal sides yellow, pronotal disc with brown streak; pterothorax and elytra brown, except elytron with a faint paler region behind middle; legs mostly testaceous, tibiae infuscated. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 67 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres slightly triangular, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 22/15). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 190 ) transverse (PW/PL 50/40), disc finely punctate; pronotal tubercle well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures organized into 10 striae (EL/EW 180/45). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 218.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, bermejo, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs 61-91: Antennae; (61) Madoniella muralla; (62) M. nota; (63) M. acicula; (64) M. aspera; (65) M. baja; (66) M. delta; (67) Amboakis bermejo; (68) Pujoliclerus variolus; (69) Megatrachys irrasis; (70) Cregya arima; (71) Nelsopelonium aspikelum; (72) Cregya vicosa; (73) Pujoliclerus abditus; (74) P. dexus; (75) Cregya triguttula; (76) Pyticeroides brevitubulus; (77) Pujoliclerus lasiosus; (78) Cregya biguttula; (79) Sirpa acara; (80) Parapelonides naranjo; (81) Cregya livida; (82) Amboakis collucoatis; (83) Ampleris jatai; (84) Megaphloeus yasuni; (85) Pelonium implacide, male; (86) Epiphloeus prolixicornus; (87) Pelonium implacide, female; (88) Epiphloeus mantillerii; (89) Amboakis mitaraka; (90) Ellipotoma makrosa; (91) Cregya maura.

Figs 179-193: Pronota; 179) Phonius versus; (180) Perilypus arsus; (181) A. nodus; (182) Pyticara frontegalba; (183) Pelonium implacide; (184) Neorthoplera quintana; (185) Perilypus virgulatus; (186) P. alpinus; (187) Amboakis expandosa; (188) Ampleris jatai; (189) Megaphloeus jasuni; (190) Amboakis bermejo (191) Madoniella delta; (192) Megaphloeus imparilus; (193) Pyticeroides brevitubulus.

Figs 213-218: Aedeagi; (213) Perilypus virgulatus; (214) Agnatis curvabilis; (215) A. vaurieae; (216) Parapelonides naranjo; (217) Pyticara frontegalba; (218) Amboakis bermejo.

Figs 282-285: Habitus; (282) Parapelonides naranjo; (283) Pyticara frontegalba; (284) Amboakis bermejo; (285) A. collucoatis.