Amboakis mitaraka
- 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
- Amboakis
- species
- Amboakis mitaraka
materials_examined
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). D i a g n o s i s: The genus name Amboakis OPITZ, and its 24 species, were made available in 2006 (OPITZ 2006). That work included a key to Amboakis species. Amboakis mitaraka specimens key out to A. rudis OPITZ, from which A. mitaraka specimens differ by showing two large flavotestaceous maculae on the elytral disc. D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.5 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 287. Color: Cranium bicolorous, frons castaneous, epicranium and cranial venter black; antennal fundus yellow, capitulum black; prothorax and pterothorax black; elytra bicolorous, disc with two large flavotestaceous maculae, one macula broad and extended backwards for elytral anterior margin, the other transverse slightly behind elytral middle, remainder of disc black; legs yellow; abdomen black. Head: Antenna (Fig. 89) capitate, 6 th funicular antennomeres slightly expanded, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 subquadrate, antennomere 10 slightly oblong; eyes large, finely facetted, ocular notch large, eye wider than frons (EW / FW 20 / 12). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 161) transverse (PW / PL 50 / 40), anterior transverse depression deeply impressed; disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures profusely distributed, punctures substriate (EL / EW 160 / 36); anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 219. 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, mitaraka, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.
Name
- Homonyms
- Amboakis mitaraka