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Priocera campbelli Opitz 2021, nov.sp.

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Priocera campbelli OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 32, 91, 115)

HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Fazenda Campininas, Mogi Guacu, I, 1-8, 1970, J. M. & B. A. Campbell (CNCI).

D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antennae testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5 th, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one at middle of basal margin, one premedial irregularly, shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 115. Head: Frons slightly wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 33/11. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, finely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle (PW /PL 70/95); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral 2/3, latter partly rounded (EL /EW 270/66); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 32.

D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 91): The species is known from Brazil.

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, campbelli, honors J. Milton Campbell for his many contributions to Systematic Entomology.

Notes

Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1163, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854

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Biodiversity

Collection code
CNCI
Family
Cleridae
Genus
Priocera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Opitz
Species
campbelli
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Priocera campbelli Opitz, 2021