Platynoptera ampliata (KLUG)

Opitz, Weston, 2015, Systematics of the checkered beetle subfamily Platynopterinae SPINOLA (Coleoptera Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1513-1572 : 1541-1542

Platynoptera ampliata (KLUG)

( Fig . 167)

Holotype: Gender not known. Brasilien ( Brazil). ( NHMB) .

Schenkling, 1903: 103; 1906: 311.

Diagnosis: This is the only member of Platynoptera whose elytral disc is entirely or almost entirely black; there may be a faintly visible pale spot at the center of the disc.

Description: Size: Length 16.0 mm; width 8.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 167 . Color: Cranium black, vertex with narrow flavotestaceous streak, labrum flavotestaceous; pronotum bicolorous, sides and front flavotestaceous, disc black; elytra mostly black, with two faintly visible maculae at the middle of disc. Head: Antennal capitulum long, each capitular antennomere longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 45/45. Thorax: Pronotum quadrate, flared at sides, anterior margin projected at middle, side margin of disc rounded; PW/PL 160/160; elytra strongly flared at sides, disc with 4 carina; EL/EW 780/220. Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at distal margin.

Variation: Size: length 12.0-16.0 mm; width 6.0-8.0 mm. In one specimen the elytral disc is entirely black.

Distribution: I examined two specimens from: Brazil, Minas, Caraça. Specimens are deposited in NHMB, MNHN, WOPC.

Figures

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