Pelonium erudiatum, 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 : 1009

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809283
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D867-FFE8-3CB4-FE8B31B7F8E3
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Pelonium erudiatum
status	nov.sp.

Treatment

Pelonium erudiatum OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 34 View Figs 28-42 , 168 View Figs 163-170 , 336 View Figs 334-337 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: 40 Mi. E. of Abancay, PERU, III-5-51 ( CASC).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pelonium SPINOLA was revised in 2018 ( OPITZ 2018b). This work included a key to species groups and species. The available specimen of Pelonium erudiatum keys out to the amabile group, in which it is distinguished by showing elytral asetiferous punctures that abruptly end at elytral distal 2/3 rd.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 336 View Figs 334-337 . Color: Forebody and pterothorax castaneous; antenna testaceous; elytra dark testaceous; legs testaceous, femora infuscated distally; abdomen dark testaceous. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 34 View Figs 28-42 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 long triangular, antennomere 11 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 30/44). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 168 View Figs 163-170 ) oblong (PW/PL 105/115), disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercles well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of large asetiferous punctures that abruptly end at elytral posterior 2/3 rd (EL/EW 350/85). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in March.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromPeru.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, erudiatum, is a Latin name that stems from erudio (= polish); with reference to the polished posterior 1/3 rd of the elytral disc.