Aphelocerus yaguare, 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 : 966

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809218
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D852-FFDD-3CB4-FD1331AFFE0A
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Aphelocerus yaguare
status	nov.sp.

Treatment

Aphelocerus yaguare OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 99 View Figs 92-100 , 159 View Figs 153-162 , 269 View Figs 266-269 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: Nicaragua: Matagalpa: Selva Negra , 1280 m, 17-VI-2018, Weston & Galena Opitz, beating live branches of orange jasmine ( FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Aphelocerus KIRSCH was revised in 2005 (OPITZ 2005). This work included a key to species. Aphelocerus yaguare specimens key out to A. myrmecoides OPITZ from which A. yaguare specimens differ by showing a more oblong elytral form. The elytral length to width ratio in A. yaguare specimens is 8.0, whereas in A. myrmecoides specimens it is 5.6. Also, the metepisternal line of white setae is missing in specimens of A. yaguare .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 269 View Figs 266-269 . Color: Black; row of white setae on at sides of frons and lower sides of pronotum. Head: Genae and epicranium extended; gena wrinkled behind eyes; interocular depression and frontal umbo shallow; antenna ( Fig. 99 View Figs 92-100 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter and wider towards capitulum, capitulum not compact; eyes finely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 17/51). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 159 View Figs 153-162 ) oblong, very finely punctate; (PW/PL 60/42); elytra boldly convex, disc with striae of very small setiferous punctures (EL/EW 240/30). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during mid-June, by beating live branches of the evergreen bush orange jasmine [ Murraya paniculata (L.) JACK ( Rutaceae )], at 1,280 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, yaguare, is a noun in apposition and honors Yagüare the Nicaraguan native who founded the community of Matagalpa.