Aphelocerus aeneus, 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 : 39-41

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9927-1148-FD59-FC06FEF1FE56
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus aeneus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus aeneus , new species Figure 196 View Figs ; map 27

HOLOTYPE: Male. Mexico. Chiapas, El Sumidero , 21 Oct. 1988, R. Turnbow. ( AMNH). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white machine printed; support card, white; locality label, white, machine printed; AMNH repository label white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine printed; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

PARATYPES: None.

DIAGNOSIS: The brassy color of the body in combination with the testaceous mouthparts, clypeus, antenna, and legs testaceous easily distinguish the members of this species from congeneres. Also, most of the short, pale elytral setae are directed posteriorly with no evidence of a middiscal elytral setal tuft.

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 4.3 mm; width 1.8 mm. Integument: Mouthparts, antenna, clypeus, and legs testaceous, remainder metallic bluegreen; elytral disc with pale decumbent setae; no indication of setal tuft. Head: Width across eyes about equal to width across pronotum (32:32); cranium rugose; eyes subspherical, moderately convex. Thorax: Pronotum as long as wide (32:32); narrower than width across humeri (32:38), finely punctate, subapical depression faintly indicated, side margins feebly arcuate; elytra shallow, plane depth at humerus 18, greatest depth in posterior half 18, surface shallowly rugose. Abdomen: Pygidial posterior margin evenly arcuate, tegmen as in figure 196, parameres with medial acumination.

VARIATIONS: Not studied.

NATURAL HISTORY: The holotype specimen was captured during October.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Southern highlands of Chiapas, in Mexico.

ETYMOLOGY: The epithet is a Latin adjective that refers to the metallic bluegreen col or of this beetle.