Pujoliclerus variolus, 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 : 1019

Pujoliclerus variolus OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 68 , 155 , 351 )

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res. , 30 km (air) sw Pto. Maldonado, 290 m, 12°50'S 069°20'W. A second label reads: Smithsonian Institution Canopy Fogging Project, T. L. Erwin et al. colls, 09 Nov 83, 05/02/055. A third label reads: FOGGING 0037358 ( USNM).

D i a g n o s i s: Only in specimens of this Pujoliclerus species do the elytra show brown spots amidst an otherwise yellow disc. The genus Pujoliclerus PIC was revised in 2014 ( OPITZ 2014d).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.2 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 351 . Color: Forebody, pterothorax, legs and abdomen yellow; antenna brown. Head: Antenna ( Fig. 68 ) capitate, 6 th antennomere expanded, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye as wide as frons (EW/FW 25/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 155 ) quadrate (PW/PL 70/70), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures restricted to humeral region (EL/EW 175/65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in November, at 290 m, by tree canopy fogging.

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, variolus, is a Latin adjective that stems from variola (= spotted); with regards to the coloration of the elytral disc.

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 153-162: Pronota; (153) Agnatis vaurieae; (154) Pelonium atrigonatium; (155) Pujoliclerus variolus; (156) Epiphloeus prolixicornus; (157) Sirpa latiflava; (158) Neorthopleura turnbowi; (159) Aphelocerus yaguare; (160) A. copanus; (161) Amboakis mitaraka; (162) Ellipotoma makrosa.

Figs 350-353: Habitus; (350) Pujoliclerus tuxtlas; (351) P. variolus; (352) Sicamus suprus; (353) Sirpa acara.