Priocera campbelli OPITZ, 2021

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 : 1163

Priocera campbelli OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 32 , 91 , 115 )

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Fazenda Campininas, Mogi Guacu, I, 1-8, 1970, J. M. & B. A. Campbell ( CNCI).

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antennae testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5 th, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at middle of basal margin, one premedial irregularly, shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 115 . Head: Frons slightly wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 33/11. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, finely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle ( PW /PL 70/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral 2/3, latter partly rounded ( EL /EW 270/66); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 32.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig. 91 ): The species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, campbelli, honors J. Milton Campbell for his many contributions to Systematic Entomology.

Figures

Figs 91. 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 112-115. Habitus. Priocera brunnea nov.sp. (112), P. calvariola nov.sp. (113), P. castanea (114), P. campbelli nov.sp. (115).