Cregya petalosa
- Dataset
- Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Opitz, Weston (2019): Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2): 959-1076, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cleridae
- genus
- Cregya
- species
- Cregya petalosa
materials_examined
Holotype: ♀. Type locality: ECUADOR: Orellana, 1 km S Okone Gare Camp, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 220 - 250 m, 25 - VI- 1994, T. L. Erwin (USNM). D i a g n o s i s: The wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 324. Color: Cranium black. antenna bicolored, fundus and last antennomere yellow, antennomeres 8 and 9 brown; pronotum yellow, except pronotal arch black; mesosternum, femora, and abdomen yellow; metasternum, tibiae, and tarsi dark brown; elytra mostly dark brown, with broad testaceous vitta that extends from elytral posterior 2 / 3 rd to elytral basal margin; epipleural margin testaceous from humeral angle to posterior 2 / 3 rd. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna (Fig. 60) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 large triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW / FW 24 / 30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 112) transverse (PW / PL 80 / 70), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate at elytral distal 3 / 4 th (EL / EW 220 / 65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform. N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in June, by fogging tree canopy, at an altitude between 220 - 250 m. D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Ecuador. E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, petalosa, is a Greek adjective that stems from petalos (= broad); with reference to the wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc.
Name
- Homonyms
- Cregya petalosa