Clepitoides gerardi Clarke, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Clepitoides
Clepitoides gerardi

description: Clepitoides gerardi sp. nov.   
 (Figs. 5A, 5B)   
Holotype: male. Size 7.1 mm. Deposited at MNKM.  
 Diagnosis: separation of C. gerardi sp. nov. from C. anae sp. nov. is discussed following the description of the latter.   
 Clepitoides gerardi sp. nov. and males of C. neei sp. nov. can be immediately separated from all other species by the blackish triangle at the base of the metepisternum. Clepitoides gerardi sp. nov. can be separated from both sexes of C. neei sp. nov. by smaller size and broader candelabrum; and female of C. neei sp. nov. from all other species by its large size, and elongate, conical fifth urosternite.   
 General colour: translucent yellow and black to dusky. Head yellow with small, dusky fascia between superior lobes; rostrum paler yellow. Antenna: scape yellow with slightly darker apex; pedicel darker for apical half; antennomere III brown with base narrowly yellow; IV-V black with basal half yellow; VI-IX yellow with incrementally large chestnut apices; X and XI uniform chestnut. Pronotum yellow with moderately broad, almost parallel-sided, candelabrum. Scutellum black. Elytra yellow; sides from basal 1/6 moderately narrow black to apex; extreme apex uniform blackish. Entire underside yellow, except: hind edge of prothorax narrowly blackish at sides; triangular black fascia ocupying basal 1/6 of metepisternum; abdomen slightly more orange, visible tergites more so, and opaque. Legs, including coxae, almost entirely yellow, except: dorsad at apex of protibiae, extreme apex of mesofemoral club, apex of metafemoral club, apical half of meso- and metatibiae, blackish. Tarsi: protarsus entirely, and basal 3/4 of meso- and metatarsomere I yellow, rest of these tarsi blackish. Apex of wings almost entirely translucent, only dusky just before apex of anterior sector.   
 Structure: Head. Inferior lobes very large (1.9 x 1.6 units) and convex, together slightly wider than pronotum; underside with submentum finely but densely carinate and punctured, rest much more sparsely. Antennae moderately long, almost reaching apex of elytra, and reaching apex of urosternite II.   
Thorax. Prothorax one and a half times longer than wide; front and hind borders subequal; sides subparallel with slight basal constrictions, widest at middle. Pronotum convex, sparsely hirsute; disc with alveolate, subcontiguous punctures; sides almost glabrous, mostly smooth with isolated groups of punctures.  
Mesothorax with elytra reaching apical 1/4 of urosternite II; broad, regularly narrowed to apex; puncturation only moderately dense at sides and apex; hirsute for basal half, otherwise glabrous; apex transversely truncate, each angle with spicule.  
Abdomen. Long and narrow; individual segments fusiform; length of I-III subequal; V slightly trapezoidal, with foliate sides and horseshoe-shaped depression. Apical tergite slightly rounded at apex.  
 Female with reduced sexual dimorphism: General colour: distribution as in male.   
 Structure: inferior lobe 1.6 x 1.2 units, interocular space (1.1 units), with 4 rows of moderately dense punctures; submentum carinate with isolated punctures, rest almost smooth; antenna reaching apical 1/6 of elytra, and base of urosternite II. Abdomen moderately robust, fusiform, widest at apex of urosternite II; V markedly trapezoidal, regularly convex with rounded apex.   
Measurements (mm), 5♂ / 1♀: total length 5.8-7.1/7.1; length of pronotum 1.0-1.3/1.3; width of pronotum 0.8-0.9/1.0; length of elytra 2.5-3.0/3.0; humeral width 1.0-1.1/1.1.  
 Type material: Holotype male, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz, 17°29’96”S/ 63°39’13”W, 420 m, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5 km SSE Buena Vista, 20.IX.2007, R. Clarke/ S. Zamalloa col., on/flying to flowers of “ Sama blanca chica” (MNKM). Paratypes with same data as holotype: 1 female, 2.XI.2005 (RCSZ) 1 male, 20.IX.2007 (MNRJ); 1 male, 21.IX.2007 (MZSP); 1 male, 23.IX.2007 (MNHN); 1 male, 23.IX.2007 (RCZS); 1 male and 1 female, 5.X.2009 (RCSZ)..   
 Etymology: This species has been named after Gérard Tavakilian for his indefatigable work on the cerambycids of French Guiana.
description: Published as part of Clarke, Robin O. S., 2009, Bolivian Rhinotragini I: New species of ECLIPTOIDES Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2005 new status, and CLEPITOIDES new genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) Robin O. S. Clarke, pp. 563-576 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (43) on page 573, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009004300001, http://zenodo.org/record/13308320