Neorthopleura quintana, 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 : 993

Neorthopleura quintana OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 38 , 184 , 231 , 311 )

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: MEXICO, Quintana Roo, 17 km NW Felipe Carrillo Puerto , 17-VI- 1990, coll. M. C. Thomas ( FSCA) . Paratypes: 3 specimens. Mexico: Estado de Quintana Roo, 18 km N Carrillo Puerto , 1-VI-1984, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 2; WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Testaceous legs and differences in the aedeagus distinguish the members of this species from the superficially similar members of N. thomasi . The genus Neorthopleura BARR was revised by OPITZ (2013b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 311 . Color: Cranium and pronotum red; antenna black except scape testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra brown, with faintly visible testaceous lunulate fascia; legs testaceous; abdomen brown. Head: Cranium densely, finely punctate; lower frons indented; antenna capitate, funicular antennomeres progressively shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 with long ( Fig. 38 , male) collateral branch; antennomere 11 oblong; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider (male) than frons (EW/FW 40/30, male). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 184 ) convex, transverse, side margins convex (PW/PL 115/105); elytra moderately convex, disc densely sculptured with small setiferous punctures; epipleural margin abruptly terminates at elytral middle (EL/EW 360/80). Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate/scutiform, posterior margin emarginated; aedeagus as in Fig. 231 .

Variation: The width of the frons is sex dimorphic.

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

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

Figures

Figs 28-42: Antennae; (28) Neorthopleura thomasi, male; (29) N. thomasi, female; (30) N. subfasciata, male; (31) Artoadenus atrafinus; (32) Neorthopleura subfasciata, female; (33) Akonesis atraordinis; (34) Pelonium erudiatum; (35) Neorthopleura cuspidis, female; (36) Agnatis curvabilis; (37) Ichnea paraguayensis; (38) Neorthopleura quintana, male; (39) Pyticara frontegalba; (40) Platynoptera potaro; (41) Neorthopleura cuspidis, male; (42) Nanoclerus fuscus.

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 231-236: Aedeagi; (231) Neorthopleura quintana; (232) N. thomasi; (233) N. turnbowi; (234) Ampleris cacuminis; (235) A. itaituba; (236) A. jatai.

Figs 310-313: Habitus; (310) Neorthopleura cuspidis; (311) N. quintana; (312) N. rubra; (313) N. thomasi.