MONOGRAPHIC REVISION OF PLATYCOELIA 71 Fig. 48. Distribution <strong>of</strong> Platycoelia occidentalis and P. valida in Colombia. 12. Platycoelia valida Burmeister, 1844 (Figs. 1, 6, 12, 26, 48, 49) Platycoelia valida Burmeister, 1844 (valid name) CATALOG. Platycoelia valida, Burmeister 1844:453 [original description] Blanchard 1851:227 [catalog listing]; Burmeister 1855:525 [key to species <strong>of</strong> Platycoelia]; Lacordaire 1856:372 [distribution]; Harold 1869:1230 [catalog listing]; Kirsch 1871:369 [comparison with Platycoelia nervosa]; Kirsch 1873:343 [comparison with Platycoelia nervosa]; Ohaus 1904b:277, 295, 296, 297, 323, 338 [redescription]; Ohaus 1905:167 [illustration]; Ohaus
72 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITYOF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM 1918:178 [catalog listing]; Blackwelder 1944:247 [checklist]; Machatschke 1965:57, 58 [cited as type species for Platycoelia, catalog listing]; Machatschke 1972:302 [catalog listing]. TYPE SERIES. Platycoelia valida Burmeister lectotype female at MLUH labeled a) “valida x Riche Nova Granad” (green label with black border, handwritten), b) “PLATY- COELIA VALIDA BURMEISTER F LECTO- TYPE A.B.T.SMITH 2001” (red label, handwritten and typeface), c) “MLU Halle WB Zoologie S.-Nr. 8/3/10 T.-Nr.” (typeface and handwritten). Lectotype here designated. See Methods and Materials section for a statement <strong>of</strong> taxonomic purpose. The existence and location <strong>of</strong> other specimens from Burmeister’s original type series are unknown. Type locality: Colombia. DESCRIPTION. Male (n=118): length 21.3- 26.0 mm, width 12.9-16.2 mm (Fig. 49). Color light green (occasionally yellow) with thick yellow marginal band along basal half <strong>of</strong> elytral interval 2, lateral margin <strong>of</strong> elytron, medial base <strong>of</strong> elytron; yellow tarsi, head margins, portions <strong>of</strong> legs. Body ovate, strongly convex. Head: Dorsal surface glabrous. Frons sparsely punctate, clypeus densely punctate, punctures moderate. Frons not depressed. Frontoclypeal suture complete. Clypeal apex broadly rounded. Eyes separated by approximately 4.0 transverse eye-widths. Labrum sparsely punctate, with moderately large, setose punctures, setae tawny. Apex <strong>of</strong> labrum with triangular medial tooth, apex <strong>of</strong> tooth weakly truncate, extending past apex <strong>of</strong> mentum. Apex <strong>of</strong> mentum with triangular medial tooth curved into oral cavity (Fig. 1). Antenna 10-segmented; club slightly shorter than other segments combined, approximately equal to clypeal length. Pronotum: Surface glabrous, sparsely punctate, with moderate punctures. Marginal bead weak laterally, absent apically and basally. Elytron: Surface glabrous; longitudinal striae weakly punctate, punctures moderate with dark coloration; intervals impunctate. Suture with distinct apical spine (sometimes worn down) (Fig. 6). Pygidium: Width approximately 2.5 times length medially. Surface rugose, weakly convex, glabrous except near apex; setae short, tawny. Venter: Thorax sparsely setose, setae white. Mesothoracic process strongly produced, projecting anteriorly to protrochanter; apex rounded; shape conical-elongate, ventrally flattened. Abdomen glabrous. Apical spiracles not extruding. Legs: Protibia with 3 teeth in apical half; 2 apical teeth subequal in size, third tooth weak. Mesotibia and metatibia widest medially. Protarsomeres 2-4 wider than long, cup-shaped. Protarsomere 3-4 with internoapical stridulatory ridge. Protarsomere 5 with internomedial stridulatory tooth or swelling. Mesotarsomere and metatarsomere 5 with internobasal tooth. Unguitractor plate cylindrical, with 1 apical, 1 subapical seta. Modified protarsal claw with length approximately equal to protarsomere 5, thickened and elongate when compared with other claw, dorsoventrally flattened, apex unevenly bifurcate (Fig. 12). Modified mesotarsal and metatarsal claws elongated with ventral tooth, not thickened. Male Genitalia: Parameres 1.2 times longer than length <strong>of</strong> phallobase (Fig. 26). Parameres smooth, with 3-8 strong lateral grooves at apex. Female (n=63). Length 24.1-29.0 mm, width 15.1-17.7 mm. As male except in the following respects. Head: Antennal club approximately equal to segments 2-7. Legs: Protarsomere 3-4 without internoapical stridulatory ridge. Protarsomere 5 without internal tooth or swelling. Modified protarsal claw with ventral tooth, not thickened. DIAGNOSIS. This species is distinguished from all other species in the genus Platycoelia by the following combination <strong>of</strong> characters: frontoclypeal suture complete; apex <strong>of</strong> the clypeus not reflexed; labrum with a broad, triangular apical tooth strongly overlapping the mentum; mentum with a distinct tooth curved into the oral cavity; antenna 10-segmented; protibia dorsally green; elytron with an apex forming a weak nub or spine; elytron with yellow, longitudinal lines on interval 2 and base <strong>of</strong> striae 1; elytral apices not capable <strong>of</strong> completely covering the pygidium; mesothoracic process, metasternum, and abdominal sternites uniformly green to yellow; parameres with the apex rounded, expanded;
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