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120 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITYOF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
longitudinal line on stria 5; elytral apices not
capable of completely covering the pygidium;
apex of the elytral suture with an acute spine;
metasternum and abdominal sternites green
or yellow; mesothoracic process projecting
apically to the procoxa; apical abdominal spiracle
weakly protuberant; mesotarsomere 5
and metatarsomere 5 with an internomedial
tooth; modified mesotarsal claw in male with
the apex bifurcate, dorsolaterally flattened;
parameres reduced, distinctly smaller than
the expanded phallobase; parameres with the
apex rounded, expanded.
DISTRIBUTION (Fig. 65). Known from the
eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from
northwestern Venezuela to southern Ecuador.
LOCALITY DATA. 288 specimens examined
from AJRC, AMNH, BDGC, BMNH, CASC,
CBAC, CMNC, DEIC, DJCC, FMNH, HAHC,
HSIC, ISNB, MCZC, MGFT, MIZA, NMPC,
SMFD, SMTD, UNSM, USNM, VMCP,
ZMHB, ZSMC.
VENEZUELA (217). ARAGUA (31): Carretera
Maracay - Choroní (km 25), Colonia Tovar,
Puerto Portochuelo (Parque Naciónal Henri
Pittier), Rancho Grande, Tasajera sur del
Consejo, Tiara. CARABOBO (9): Valencia.
DISTRITO FEDERAL (4): Cumbre de
Boquerón, El Junquito, Quebrada los
Caracas. MÉRIDA (110): Carretera Mérida-El
Valle (km 8), El Valle, La Carbonara, La
Mucuy, La Pedregosa, Mucuchíes. LARA (12):
Campo Elias (Carretera Humocaro), Parque
Naciónal Yacambú. MIRANDA (4): Carrizal,
IVIC. TÁCHIRA (23): Betania, Carretera
Bramón – Delicias, Las Lajas, Pueblo Hondo,
Rubio. TRUJILLO (2): Boconó. NO DATA (22).
COLOMBIA (22). BOYACÁ (1): Villa de Leiva.
CAUCA (3): No Data. CUNDINAMARCA (2):
Viotá. DISTRITO CAPITAL (3): Bogotá.
HUILE (1): Gigante. NORTE DE SAN-
TANDER (1): Ocaña. NO DATA (11).
ECUADOR (37). LOJA (10): Loja. NAPO (25):
Cosanga, Sierrazul. SUCUMBÍOS (1): La
Bonita. NO DATA (1).
NO DATA (12).
Three specimens labeled “Bolivia” and
one specimen labeled “Peru” were considered
to have no data. These localities are far out of
the known range of the species.
TEMPORAL DATA. January (5), February
(12), March (23), April (11), May (106), June
(15), July (11), August (6), September (2), October
(22), November (11).
31. Platycoelia unguicularis
Ohaus, 1904
(Fig. 65)
Platycoelia unguicularis Ohaus, 1904 (valid
name)
CATALOG. Platycoelia unguicularis, Ohaus
1904b:314, 316, 339, 341 [original description];
Ohaus 1918:178 [catalog listing];
Blackwelder 1944:247 [checklist]; Ohaus
1952:8 [distribution]; Machatschke 1965:59
[catalog listing]; Machatschke 1972:303 [catalog
listing].
TYPE SPECIMENS. Platycoelia unguicularis
Ohaus lectotype male at ZMHB labeled
a) “Venez. Merida” (typeface), b) “Typus!” (red
label, typeface), c) “unguicularis Ohaus” (red
label, handwritten), d) “PLATYCOELIA
UNGUICULARIS OHAUS M LECTOTYPE
A.B.T.SMITH 2002” (red label, handwritten
and typeface). Lectotype here designated.
See Methods and Materials section for a
statement of taxonomic purpose. One female
paralectotype at ZMHB labeled a) “Venez.
Merida” (typeface), b) “Platycoelia unguicularis
Cotype Ohs. F” (orange label, handwritten),
c) “PLATYCOELIA UNGUICULARIS
OHAUS F PARALECTOTYPE A.B.T.SMITH
2002” (yellow label, handwritten and typeface).
One female paralectotype at MNHN labeled
a) “Alternans Er. La Vega Colombie”
(handwritten), b) “Ex-Musæo Mniszech”
(typeface), c) “Ohaus determ. Pl. unguicularis
Ohaus F.” (typeface and handwritten), d) “Dr
Ohaus Vidit 1903.” (typeface), e) “PLATY-
COELIA UNGUICULARIS OHAUS F
PARALECTOTYPE A.B.T. SMITH 2002”
(yellow label, handwritten and typeface). One
female paralectotype at MNHN labeled a)