Aphelocerus sabulosus, 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 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493142
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9933-1152-FF0A-FA8BFCEEFA3D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocerus sabulosus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphelocerus sabulosus , new species Figures 199 View Figs , 239 View Figs ; map 27

HOLOTYPE: Female. Costa Rica. Punt. Prov. , 6 km SE Santa Elena, 7–8 June 1987, F. T. Hovore, coll on Croton blossoms ( 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.)

PARATYPES: Eight specimens, two from the same locality as the holotype ( WOPC, 2). Costa Rica: Cartago: Cartago, 11VI1987, F. Hovore ( WFBC, 1) ; Puntarenas: 10 NE Ciudad Neilly , 28VI1994, F. T. Hovore ( JNRC, 1; WOPC, 2) ; vic. Las Alturas , 23– 24I1996, F. T. Hovore ( WOPC, 1) ; Est. Agujas. Send. Leyba. 300–350 m, 29VIII– 12IX1998, M. Labo, Tp., Malaise Seca ( INBC, 1) .

DIAGNOSIS: Distinguishable from other species of Aphelocerus that have the pronotal disc microsculptured by the extent of development of the posterior patch of the elytral middiscal tuft (fig. 239).

DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 3.5–4.8 mm; width 1.3–2.2 mm. Integument: Black. Vestiture: Integument densely vested with prominent light and dark setae; elytral middiscal setal tuft comprised of two patches, posterior patch much wider than anterior patch. Head: Finely punctate; interocular depression and frontal umbo moderately developed; eyes oval, moderately convex; width across eyes slightly narrower than width across pronotum (33:38); antenna shorter than length of pronotum (30:38). Thorax: Pronotum as long as wide (38:38), disc finely punctate and very finely microsculptured, anterior transverse depression poorly defined, side margins moderately arcuate; elytra moderately convex, depth at humerus 22, greatest depth in posterior half 25. Abdomen: Posterior margin of pygidium evenly arcuate in female, truncate in male. Male genitalia: As in figure 199; parameral apices accuminate.

VARIATION: The specimens examined were quite homogeneous.

NATURAL HISTORY: Frank T. Hovore collected all the available specimens during June, on blossoms of Croton . One specimen was collected with a Malaise trap located at 300– 350 m.

DISTRIBUTION (map 27): Known only from southernmost province of Costa Rica.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a Latin adjective that stems from sabulo (gravel). I refer to the gravellike microsculpture on the pronotal disc.