Platycrepidius duodecimnotatus, Johnson, Paul J., 2000

Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3), pp. 284-290 : 287-288

Platycrepidius duodecimnotatus new species

Type Series. Holotype, ♂, labeled ‘‘ Sector Cocori , 30 km al N. de Cariari, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, 100m, Feb 1994, E. Rojas, A.A. Solís, L N 286000 _ 567500 # 2639; INBIO CRI001973218 .’’

Etymology. The specific epithet ‘‘ duodecimnotatus ’’ refers to the 12 burnishes on the elytra.

Diagnosis. Elytra largely piceous with 6 ivory colored burnishes each. Pretarsal claws as above.

Description. Length 6.9–8.8 mm, width 2.0– 2.6 mm; elongate, silhouette subfusiform, shallowly convex; integument subshining, dull on pronotum, moderately to coarsely punctured, finely pubescent. Head piceous, fron flavous; frons with a shallow subtriangular impression, frontal margin obtuse, slightly projecting over labrum; antenna serrate from segment 4, segments 1–3 flavous, segments 4–11 infuscate. Pronotum rufobrunneous; hind angles strongly divergent, unicarinate dorsally; pronotal base tubercule obsolete; hypomeron rufobrunneous, mesal margin shallowly grooved and slightly flaired anteriorly. Elytra piceous; epipleuron rarely with obsolescent flavous mark near metacoxa; apices divergent, acuminate from interval 1; each elytron with 6 cream­yellow burnishes. Prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum, and abdominal ventrites infuscate to piceous. Legs pale flavous. Aedeagus ( Fig. 5 ) with median lobe shallowly constricted at midlength, narrow apically, apex obtuse; paramere narrowly sagittate, with 2 dorsal and 4–6 ventral setae.

Additional Material Examined. COSTA RICA, Prov. Limón, CRI000961281 (♀), CRI000961288 (♀), CRI000698104 (♂), CRI000879501 (♀); Prov. Guanacaste, CRI000853006 (♀), CRI000698682 (♂), CRI00071696 (♀) 0, CRI001973218 (♂) ( PJJC); Prov. Alajuela, CRI001776355 (♀); Prov. Heredia, CRI001311516 (♀), Prov. Heredia, La Selva (♂)(4, INBio­ALAS; 2, PJJC) .

Figures

Figs. 1–6. Platycrepidius spp., aedeagi, all in dorsal aspect. 1) P. alajuelensis n. sp.; 2) P. bosque n. sp.; 3) P. costaricensis n. sp.; 4) P. decimnotatus n. sp.; 5) P. duodecimnotatus n. sp.; 6) P. tico n. sp.