Aphelocerus myrmecoides, OPITZ, 2005

OPITZ, WESTON, 2005, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (293), pp. 1-128 : 23

myrmecoides group

Specimens of this species group have an abdomen that is proportionally very short. They share some characteristics with those of the formicoides and cheliferous group; for example, the elytral disc shows very shallow longitudinal swellings, the elytra are devoid of setal tufts and are exceptionally polished, and the legs are conspicuously lengthened with the femur extended well beyond the elytral apex. The pronotal tuft (on the lower sides of the pronotum) is highly developed in these beetles. Their geographic range extends from Costa Rica to Ecuador.