Priocera trinotata KLUG 1842
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera trinotata

description: Priocera trinotata KLUG, 1842 (Figs 77, 99, 169)   
 Priocera trinotata KLUG, 1842: 283.   
 Priocera stictica GORHAM variety remota WOLCOTT, 1927: 26. nov.syn.   
HOLOTYPE: Gender not known. Type locality: Colombia (SDEI). CORPORAAL 1950: 101.  
 A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (Fig. 99): In addition to the holotype, I examined 55 specimens from: México: Estado de Veracruz, La Playa Escondida, Los Tuxtlas, 23- III-1980, S. Keiser, T. C. Bezark; 4 km SW Fortin, 17-VII- 1990, 900 m, J. Doyen; Orizaba, collection date and collector not noted; Estación Biologica Los Tuxtlas, 30 km NE Catemaco, 19- 20-IV-2007, R. L. Wescott; Fortin de las Flores, 7-12-VII-1974, 1,010 m, at lights, J. A. Chemsak, J. Powell; Estado de Chiapas, 4 miles NE Pichucalco, 14-VI-1965, Burke, Meyer, Schaffner; Tapachula, collection date not noted, Höge; Estado de Oaxaca, 21 km W Rizo de Oro, along ridge SE of Cerro Baúl, 6-8-IX-1972, 1615 m, Carolyn Mullinex & D. E. Breedlove. Guatemala; Departamento de Petén, Parque Nacional El Rosario, 23-XI- 2016, 140 m, under recent fermenting bark, Z.Falin; Departamento de Alta Verapaz, Trece Aguas, 2-IV-?, Barber & Schwarz; Telemán, collection date not noted, Champion. Honduras: Departamento de Cortés, Peña Blanca, Lago Yojoa, 22-VI-1979, J. A. Chemsak, A.& M. Michelbacher, W.W.Middlekauff; Departamento de Santa Bárbara, 13 km SE Mochito, Montaña de Pozo Azul, 31-VII-1977, O’Brien & Marshall. Nicaragua: Departamento de Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 16-17-VI-2007, 1,300 -1,400 m, S. Lingafelter; North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Parque Nacional Saslaya, 9-V-2011, 100- 290 m, collectors not noted. Costa Rica: Provincia de Cartago, Turrialba, 7-10- VIII- 1965, Raske; idem, 14-17-V-1974, E. Giesbert; Provincia de Limón, Santa Clara, Hamburg Farm, Rio Revantazon, 10-II-1923, F. Nevermann; Provincia de Heredia, La Selva Biologica Station, 3 km S. Puerto Viejo, 19-24-VII-1992, 50- 150 m, Malaise, G. Wright. Panamá: Provincia de Panamá, Gamboa, 24-V-1995, F. Ødegaard; Bayano, 3 km W Ipeti, 30-IV-3-V-1992, E. Giesbert; Cerro Campana, near Chica, 2-5-IV-1965, S. S. & W. D. Duckworth; Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island, 13-VI-1977, H. Hespenheide; Provincia de Colón, Skunk Hollow, 9.6 km NW Gatun Locks, 12- VI-1993, Steve Lingafelter; 2.1 km N Rio, Charges, Madden Dam Forest, 20-XII-1993, J. E. Beierl. Colombia: Departamento de Magdalena, PNN Tayrona Cerro San Lucas, 11-16-I- 2003, 450 m, C. Sarmiento. Venezuela; Estado de Miranda, Cambural, Capaya, 5- VIII- 1962, Carlos Bordon. Ecuador: Provincia de Napo, 28 km NE Campo Cocha, 15-30-III-2001, F. Hovore; 24 km E Atahualpa, 1-13-X- 1996, 450 m, E. Giesbert; Provincia de Pichincha, Tinalandia, 15 km SE Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 15-VII-1983, T. H. Gantenbein & P. S. Gantenbein; Maquipucuna Forest Reserve, 60 km NW Quito, 23-XII-1991, 1,300 m, at light, C. Carlton, R. Lechen. Peru: Provincia de Huancabamba, Tingo Maria, 21-X-1941, 2,200 feet, J. C. Pallister. Specimens are deposited in AMNH, BMNH, CASC, CSCA, EMEC, FSCA, JMLC, RNJC, SEMC, TAMU, USNM, WFBM, WOPC, and ZMHB.   
 D i a g n o s i s: Cranium, antennae, thorax, legs, abdomen castaneous; elytra bicolorous, each elytron with 3 yellow markings, apical 1/4 th testaceous.   
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 169. Head: Frons wider than length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 38/15). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 85/120); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL /EW 320/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 77.  
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 6.0-9.0 mm; width 1.8-2.2 mm. Except for body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.  
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected throughout the year at altitudes that range from 30 to 1,615 m. One specimen was captured under fermenting bark.  
N o t e s: Klug’s type was not available, therefore, the species description is based on a non-type specimen.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854