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Pyticara implana Opitz 2015, nov.sp.

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Pyticara implana OPITZ, nov.sp. (Figs 4, 10, 35, 40)

H o l o t y p e: ♀. Brazil: Pará: Jagareacanga, XII-1968, M. Alvarenga (FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s Within Pyticara, specimens of P. duponti, P. championi, P. implana, and P. simoata have the head and the anterior margin of the pronotum equally wide, but only in P. implana specimens is the elytral anterior margin faintly testaceous, in an elytral disc that is otherwise entirely black.

D e s c r i p t i o n:Size: Length 14.5 mm; width 6.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 35. Color: Forebody testaceous; mesoscutellum testaceous; elytra bicolored, mostly black, with the anterior margin and the humeral angle faintly testaceous; front femur testaceous, middle and hind femora brown; tibiae brown. Head: As wide as anterior margin of pronotum; antennal funicle moderately compacted (Fig. 4) antennomere 9 longer than funicle; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 45/80. Thorax: Pronotum transverse, side margin rounded (Fig. 10); PW/PL 205/170; elytral disc faintly cribrate, only slightly increasing in diameter from base to elytral half; EL/EW 600//200. Abdomen: Female pygidium not incised at distal margin.

D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 40): Known only from the type locality.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name implana is a Latin adjective derived from implanus (= uneven). I refer to the slightly rough surface of the elytral disc.

Notes

Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2015, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Enopliinae GISTEL (Coleoptera Cleridae). Part IV. The New World genus Pyticara SPINOLA, pp. 711-730 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 719, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415250

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Biodiversity

Family
Cleridae
Genus
Pyticara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Opitz
Species
implana
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pyticara implana Opitz, 2015