Enoclerus tucuman OPITZ, 2021

Opitz, Weston, 2021, New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (1), pp. 123-169 : 144

Enoclerus tucuman OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 58 , 107 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: ♁. Type locality: Argentina, 800, Tucuman, Ciudad Universitaria , 18-II-1959, J. F.G. Clarke ( WFBM) . Paratypes: 3 specimens. ARGENTINA: Provincia de Córdaba ; Córdaba,?-9-1939, M. J. Viana ( MNHN, 1; WOPC, 1) ; idem, La Criolla,?- I-1903, 1,500 m. G. A. Baer ( MNHN, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Antennae testaceous; prothorax bicolorous; pronotum mostly black, partly testaceous; pterothorax testaceous; elytra base slightly testaceous, rest of elytra black, but elytra with three yellow markings; elytral apex setose; legs testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 58 . Head. (EW/FW 20/60). Thorax: Subapical depression well defined; pronotal and elytral discs finely punctate; (PL/PW-110/110); (EL/EW 270/75). Abdomen: Aedeagus ( Fig. 107 ).

V a r i a t i o n: Length 5.0-7-0 mm; width 1.0- 1.2 mm. The pronotum may entirely testaceous.

E t y m o l o g y: The species name, tucuman, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Figures

Figs 57-60. Habitus. Enoclerus teutonia (57); E. tucuman (58); E. velha (59); E. vera (60).

Figs 101-110. Aedeagus. Enoclerus rio (101); E. riocuare (102); E. rionegro (103); E. rondonia (104); E. sinop (105); E. teutonia (106); E. tucuman (107); E. vista (108); E. wappesi (109); E. yungas (110).