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104 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITYOF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
PERÚ (17). CUSCO (1) Santa Isabel
(Cosñipata Valley). HUANUCO (5): Carpish,
Chinchao, Rondos, Tingo María. JUNÍN (6):
Chanchamayo. NO DATA (5).
BOLIVIA (1). COCHABAMBA (1): Yungas del
Palmar.
NO DATA (1).
TEMPORAL DATA. March (2), July (1), August
(1), September (1), October (1), November
(3).
24. Platycoelia interstincta new
species
(Fig. 63)
TYPE SPECIMEN. Male holotype. Holotype
male at BMNH labeled “Tatamá Colombia
6000 to 8000 ft,” “1911-201.,” and “Ohaus
determ. Platycoelia variolosa M Ohs.” Type
locality: Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia.
HOLOTYPE. Male: length 25.6 mm, width
16.4 mm. Color olive green with yellow
elytron, pronotum, scutellum margins;
elytron with black spots along striae. Body
ovate, strongly convex. Head: Dorsal surface
glabrous. Frons densely punctate, clypeus
rugopunctate, punctures small or moderate.
Frons not depressed. Frontoclypeal suture
incomplete, absent medially. Clypeal apex
broadly rounded. Eyes separated by 3.5 transverse
eye-widths. Labrum sparsely punctate,
with moderately large, setose punctures, setae
tawny. Apex of labrum with triangular,
medial tooth; apex of tooth broadly truncate,
extending past apex of mentum. Apex of mentum
with triangular medial tooth curved into
oral cavity. Antenna 10-segmented; club approximately
equal to other segments combined,
slightly longer than clypeal length.
Pronotum: Surface glabrous, densely punctate,
with small or moderate punctures. Marginal
bead weak apicolaterally, absent
elsewhere. Elytron: Surface glabrous; longitudinal
striae weakly punctate, punctures moderate
with dark coloration; intervals densely
punctate, punctures small. Suture angled
apically, without spine. Pygidium: Width 2.8
times length medially. Surface weakly convex,
moderately to densely punctate; punctures
small or moderate, disc glabrous. Venter: Thorax
densely setose, setae cream colored. Mesothoracic
process strongly produced,
projecting anteriorly past protrochanter;
shape conical-elongate, apex rounded, dorsoventrally
flattened. Abdomen sparsely setose,
setae cream colored. Apical spiracles not
extruding. Legs: Protibia with 1 apical tooth.
Mesotibia and metatibia widest medially.
Protarsomeres 2-4 wider than long, cupshaped.
Protarsomere 3-4 with internoapical
stridulatory ridge. Protarsomere 5 with internal
stridulatory ridge. Mesotarsomere and
metatarsomere 5 with internobasal tooth.
Unguitractor plate cylindrical, with 2 apical
setae. Modified protarsal claw with length
greater than protarsomere 5, thickened and
elongate when compared with other claw, laterally
flattened, apex unevenly bifurcate.
Modified mesotarsal and metatarsal claws
elongated with ventral tooth, not thickened.
Male Genitalia: Phallobase 1.3 times longer
than length of parameres. Parameres dorsoventrally
flattened, apicomedially acute.
ETYMOLOGY. Platycoelia interstincta
means “the spotted Platycoelia” referring to
the small dark spots on the elytra.
DIAGNOSIS. This species is distinguished
from all other species in the genus Platycoelia
by the following combination of characters:
frontoclypeal suture incomplete; labrum with
a well-developed, truncate apical tooth
strongly overlapping the mentum; mentum
with a distinct tooth curved into the oral cavity;
antenna 10-segmented; pronotum surface
densely punctate with a mix of small and
moderate punctures; elytron with well-defined,
dark, longitudinal spots along striae;
elytral apices capable of completely covering
the pygidium; pygidium entirely setose;
metasternum and abdominal sternites green;
protibia of male with 1 tooth; protibial spur
noticeably shorter than the adjacent tibial
apex; mesotarsomere 4 and metatarsomere 4
in males with an apical stridulatory ridge;
mesotarsomere 5 and metatarsomere 5 with