Platynoptera ochreata OPITZ, 2015

Opitz, Weston, 2015, Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1513-1572 : 1547

Platynoptera ochreata OPITZ , nov.sp.

( Figs . 81, 168 , 173 )

Holotype: ♀. Costa Rica: Puntarenas Prov. nr. Buenos Aires, 18-VI-1976, D.H. Habeck ( WFBM).

Diagnosis: This is the only member of Platynoptera whose elytral disc is entirely flavotestaceous.

Description: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 168 . Color: Cranium mostly black, frons and vertex with narrow flavotestaceous streak, clypeus flavotestaceous; pronotum bicolorous, lower sides infuscated, disc with two linear infuscations; elytra flavotestaceous, slightly infuscated at base of sutural margin. Head: Antennal capitulum long ( Fig. 81 ), basal capitular antennomere longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 20/15. Thorax: Pronotal anterior margin not projected at middle, side margin of disc with shallow tubercle; PW/PL 70/80; elytral moderately explanate at sides, disc with 3 carina; EL/EW 340/95. Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at distal margin.

Natural history: The holotype was collected in June.

Distribution ( Fig. 173 ): Known only from the type locality.

Etymology: The trivial name, ochreata Greek stems from ochros (= pale yellow). I refer to the color of the elytral disc.

Figures

Figs 81-86: Antennae. (81) Platynoptera ochreata, female; (82) Artoadenus similus, male; (83) Tarandocerus auratus, male; (84) T. mexicanus, male; (85) T. testaceiceps, male; (86) Pilosirus versus, female.

Figs 165-168: Habitus illustrations of (165) Platynoptera humeralis, holotype; (166) P. lyciformis, lectotype; (167) P. ampliata, non-type; (168) P. ochreata, holotype.

Fig. 173: Geographic distribution of species as noted.