Priocera catalinae CAZIER , 1939

Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1145-1255 : 1166-1167

Priocera catalinae CAZIER, 1939 ( Figs 33 , 88 , 117 )

Priocera catalinae CAZIER 1939: 162 .

HOLOTYPE: ♂. North America , At soldiers camp ( AMNH) . ALLOTYPE: S. Catalina, Mts, Ariz. , 7-36, E. S. Ross ( TYPE 4818 ) ( AMNH). CORPORAAL, 1950: 162 .

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d ( Fig. 88 ): In addition to the holotype, I examined 11 specimens from: The United States of America: Arizona, Cochise County, Chiricahua Mountains , Pinery Canyon Camp , 10-VII-2010, 7,000 feet, Wappes & Cicero ; idem, Barfoot Park , 24-VI-1980, under pine bark, 2,535 m, Scott McCleve ; Apache County, Apache National Forest, Luna Lake campground, 5 miles E Alpine, 22-VI-2002, under bark of dead Ponderosa Pine, C. G. Pollock ; Cochise County, 1 mile S Rustler’s Park , 24-VII-1980, under bark of dead Pinus ponderosa, R. Turnbow ; Cochise County, Huachuca. Mountains , 16-VII-1907, 9,000 feet ; H. A. Kaeber; 8- VIII- 1921, J. N. Knull; Coconino County, Flagstaff ,?- VI-1930, collector not noted ; idem, 15-VI-1904, Pinus, J. L. Webb ; idem, 16-VII-1976, W. H. Tyson. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, CASC, FMNH, JNRC, RHTC, USNM, and WFBM .

D i a g n o s i s: The elytral base is devoid of any testaceous marking.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 117 . Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 25/30. Thorax: Pronotal sides wrinkled, pronotum proper and pronotal arch finely punctate, pronotum proper with 2 tumescences ( PW /PL 80/110); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded ( EL /EW 300/50); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male visible abdominal ventrite V deeply widely emarginate distally; aedeagus as in Fig. 33.

V a r i a t i o n: The yellow spots on the elytral disc vary in prominence.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during June and July; one under bark of dead Ponderosa pine [ Pinus ponderosa DOUGLAS exc. LAWSON ( Pinaceae )]. Altitudinally, specimens were collected from 2,134 to 2,743 m.

N o t e s: The description is based on a non-type specimen.

Figures

Figs 88. Approximate distribution of species as noted.

Figs 25-33. Aedeagus. Priocera acrobela (25), P. angulata (26), P. aperturosa (27), P. apicalis (28), P. aurosignata (29), P. batesi (30), P. bibulla (31), P. campbelli (32), P. catalinae (33).

Figs 116-119. Habitus. Priocera championi nov.sp. (116), P. catalinae (117), P. chilotaxis nov.sp. (118), P. chiricahuae (119).