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Enoclerus yasuni Opitz 2021, nov.sp.

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Description

Enoclerus yasuni OPITZ nov.sp. (Fig. 63)

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: ♀. Type locality: Ecuador, Napo, Yasuni, Ser, Sta., 19-30 Oct 1998, W. J. Hanson, 250 m (WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Antenna yellow; cranium mostly castaneous, with small black spot; pronotum mostly yellow, with small black spot; elytra broadly black in basal 1/3, with then with black macula, elytra red in remainder; legs brown.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 63. Head: (EW/FW 22/50). Thorax: Subapical depression well defined; pronotal and elytral discs finely punctate (PL/PW-110/110); (EL/EW 290/50). Abdomen: Female pygidium scutiform.

E t y m o l o g y: The species name, yasuni, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Notes

Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, New South American checkered beetles of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 123-169 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (1) on pages 145-146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13153564

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Biodiversity

Collection code
WOPC
Event date
1998-10-19
Family
Cleridae
Genus
Enoclerus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Opitz
Species
yasuni
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1998-10-19/30
Taxonomic concept label
Enoclerus yasuni Opitz, 2021