Enoclerus hovorei Rifkind and Barr 2007, new species
Creators: name: Ivie, Michael A.
name: Spiessberger, Erich L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Enoclerus
Enoclerus hovorei

description: Enoclerus hovorei Rifkind and Barr, new species   
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 Type Material. Holotype male: COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Monteverde, June 16–19-1995, F. Hovore, collector. Holotype deposited in the California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. (CSCA). Six paratypes: (2) same data as holotype, except 12-15-VI-1996; (1) same data as holotype except 22-25-vii-1992; (1) same data as holotype except 17–18 May, 1984; (1) same data as holotype except 18-22-vii-1990; (1) Costa Rica, Prov. Guanacaste, Est. Cacao, 1,000–1,400 m, Lado Suroeste del Volcán Cacao, Malaise trap, 1990 (INBio label collecting data: L-N-323300, 375700 / Barcode: INBIO CRI000, 628971). Paratypes deposited in INBC, JNRC, and WFBC.   
 Diagnosis. Readily distinguishable from its congeners based on a unique combination of color, elytral pattern, and setal arrangement. It appears somewhat similar to Enoclerus bicarinatus (Gorham), with which it may be sympatric in parts of Costa Rica. By comparison with E. hovorei, however, E. bicarinatus has the subbasal carinae generally more elongate, the midelytral fascia not as acutely deflexed, and bears, in addition, a pair of pale oblique antemedian elytral markings that are entirely absent in the new species.   
 Description (Holotype). Length: 6.00 mm. Color: Black; tibiae brownish-red; tarsi, antennal club, antennomeres 1–2 (dorsally), and mouthparts, brown; antennomeres 1–2 (ventrally), apices of maxillary palpi, and third pair of trochanters, reddish-testaceus; elytra with eburneous raised subbasal and median markings as in Fig. 2; median fasciae attaining epipleural folds laterally. Head: front bi-impressed; surface densely, moderately finely and shallowly punctate, moderately densely set with fine, medium length, suberect silvery setae, interspersed with fewer longer and more robust, erect black setae. Pronotum: slightly wider than long; distinctly narrower than elytra at base; transverse impression distinct, slightly oblique on sides of disk, broadly ‘‘V’’ shaped at middle; surface finely, rather sparsely punctate on basal disk, more coarsely, subconfluently punctate in front of transverse impression; pubescence moderately dense, but not obscuring the surface, consisting of erect and suberect black and silvery setae of varying length and thickness, most noticeably arranged as follows: a sparse array of short, suberect, robust, apically oriented silvery setae in front of transverse impression; basal disk at middle bearing black setae only. Elytra: elongate (almost 2X as long as wide), widest at middle; humeri well developed, subquadrate; subbasal swellings distinct, each crowned with a longitudinally produced, glabrous, ovate-elongate eburneous carina; disk with surface shining, sparsely and finely punctate above, shallowly dimpled, a little more densely punctate laterally; inconspicuously set with short, suberect black setae intermingled with fewer longer, more robust, erect black setae, and patterned with conspicuous concentrations of rather short, reclinate, whitish setae arranged as a laterally deflexed, postbasal oblique fascia, continuing narrowly along the elytral midline (broader somewhat at apical 1/3), then expanding obliquely over apices; median lunulate-angulate fascia distinctly raised; sides subparallel; apices separately rounded, slightly dehiscent. Mesosternum: posterior median process distinctly elevated, apex entire (not cleft). Metasternum: convex; surface shining; sides each with a distinct triangular concentration of reclinate silvery setae. Abdomen: shining, virtually impunctate, set with a few long, pale setae; visible sternite 6 with hind margin feebly, arcuately emarginate; abdominal apex without setal daggers.   
 Variation. Length ranges from 4.65 mm – 7.75 mm. The few available specimens are rather uniform in color, sculpturing and setal patterning. The female has visible sternite 6 with the hind margin semicircularly rounded.   
 Natural History. This apparently uncommon species appears to be restricted to upland habitats (ca. 1,000–1,500 m elevation) in Costa Rica. It has been collected in cloudforest at Monteverde.   
 Etymology. We name this species in honor of the late Frank T. Hovore, collector of most of the type series. Frank had a special affinity for the Coleoptera of Monteverde and we take great pleasure in associating his name with this rare and attractive clerid.
description: Published as part of Ivie, Michael A. & Spiessberger, Erich L., 2007, Clarification of the Correct Original Spelling of Caecomenimopsis jamaicensis Dajoz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae: Gnathidiini: Anopidiina), pp. 195-199 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 61 (2) on pages 195-199, DOI: 10.1649/0010, http://zenodo.org/record/10110460