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.