Epiphloeus mantillerii, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Epiphloeus
Epiphloeus mantillerii

description: Epiphloeus mantillerii OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 88, 175, 220, 289)
Holotype: ♀. Type locality: GUYANE FRANÇAISE, Massif du Mitaraka ca. 2°14'N- 54°27'O, 25.II-26.III.2015. A second label reads: La Planète Revisitée- MNHN.PNI Guyane, 2015 (APA- 973-1) (NMNH). Paratypes: 5 specimens. French Guiana: Subdivision Maripasoula, Massif du Mitaraka, 21°4'N- 54°27'W, 25-II-26-III-2015, La Planète Revisitée- MNHN.PNI Guyane, 2015 (APA-973-1) (MNHN, 4; WOPC, 1), Subdivision Roura, Amazon Nature Lodge, Kaw Road 6, 11-23-VIII-2017, Malaise, Morris & Wappes (RFMC, 1)..
D i a g n o s i s: The genus Epiphloeus SPINOLA was revised in 2008 (OPITZ 2008). That work included a key to Epiphloeus species. Epiphloeus mantillerii specimens key out to E. princeps GORHAM, from which E. mantillerii specimens differ by showing a predominantly black basal 1/2 of the elytral disc; a short flavotestaceous macula extends backward from the humeral angle. Also, in E. mantillerii specimens there is a much more extended phallobasic rod.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 289. Color: Cranium castaneous, frontal margin, below ocular notch, with slender patch of white setae; antenna bicolorous, scape testaceous, infuscated dorsally, rest of antenna brown; prothorax black, except, middle of arch red; pterothorax testaceous; elytra bicolorous, each disc with short testaceous flavotestaceous macula at humeral angle and large angular flavotestaceous maculae behind middle; abdomen bicolorous, visible sternites I to IV yellow, sternites V and VI black; pronotal and elytral discs densely vested with recumbent white setae. Head: Antenna (Fig. 88) capitate, scape particularly elongate, funicular antennomeres tightly packed, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 with extended angular anterodistal margin, antennomere 11 suboval; eyes large, finely facetted, ocular notch large, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 55/45). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 175) transverse (PW/PL 150/120), anterior transverse depression deeply impressed; arch finely transversely wrinkled, disc coarsely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; each elytron tapered to apex; elytral asetiferous punctures large, concentrated on elytral basal 1/4 (EL/EW 125/45); anterior margin of protibia with 10 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 220.
Variation: Length 8.0-13.0 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. The pronotal arch may be entirely black.
N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during a period from 25 February to 26 March 2015.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from French Guiana.
E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, mantillerii, is a dedicative patronym to honor Antoine Mantilleri, MNHN, for his contributions to taxonomic Entomology.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), pp. 959-1076 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2) on page 978, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3746744