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Mnisnech,” “Dr Ohaus Vidit 1903.,” and “Ohaus
determ. Pl. boliviensis Blanch. M.” One male
paratype at CASC labeled “E. P. Reed Collection.”
One male paratype at ABTS labeled
“Sta-Cruz Bolivia” and “Platycoelia boliviensis
Blanch.” One female paratype at ZMHB
labeled “Oxapampa Peru,” “F,” and “Platycoelia
boliviensis Bl.” Two female paratypes at
ZMHB labeled “Peru Chanchamayo M. Freymann
G.” One female paratype at ABTS labeled
“Chanchamago Peru,” “F. SCHNEIDER,” “45,”
and “Platycoelia boliviensis Bl.” One female
paratype at HNHM labeled “Chanchamayo”
and “364. 42.” One female paratype at SMFD
labeled “Peruvia,” “Coll. B. Schwarzer,” and
“Dr.Ohaus det. Platycoelia boliviensis Bl.”
One female paratype at MNHN labeled
“boliviensis Bl. Perou,” “ExMusæo A.SALLÉ
1897,” “Dr Ohaus Vidit 1903.,” and “Ohaus
determ. Pl. boliviensis Blanch. F.” One female
paratype at ABTS and one female paratype at
ZMHB labeled “PERU Rio Toro LaMerced/
Chanchamayo.” One female paratype at
ZMHB labeled “PÉROU PROV. HUALLAGA
RIO MIXIOLLO 1200m G. A. BAER 7-8-1900,”
“F,” and “Platycoelia boliviensis Bl.” One female
paratype at ZMHB labeled “S.Antonio
Mapiri Bolivia,” “F,” “boliviensis Blanch.,”
and “Platycoelia boliviensis Blanch.” One female
paratype at ISNB labeled “Oxapampa
Peru,” “Ohaus determ. Platycoelia nigrosternalis
Ohs. F.,” “R. I. Sc. N. B. 16.117L. Burgeon,
coll. et det.” One male paratype at ZSMC labeled
“alte Sammlung,” “Nova Grenada,” and
“boliviensis Blanch.” One male paratype at
ZSMC labeled “alte Sammlung.” Type locality:
Moyobamba, San Martín, Perú.
HOLOTYPE. Male: Length 21.7 mm, width
12.9 mm. Color light green with thick yellow
elytral suture; yellow tarsi; legs partially yellow;
elytral striae with dark punctures;
elytral intervals 3, 5, 7 with weak yellow longitudinal
line. Body ovate with elytral apex
truncate, strongly convex. Head: Dorsal surface
glabrous. Frons and clypeus moderately
to densely punctate, punctures moderate.
Frons not depressed. Frontoclypeal suture
complete. Clypeus trapezoidal. Eyes separated
by approximately 3.5 transverse eyewidths.
Labrum densely punctate, with
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moderately large, setose punctures, setae
tawny. Apex of labrum with triangular medial
tooth, apex of tooth truncate, extending past
apex of mentum. Apex of mentum with triangular
medial tooth curved into oral cavity.
Antenna 10-segmented; club approximately
equal to segments 2-7, 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 rounded apically, without
spine. Pygidium: Width approximately 2.4
times length medially. Surface weakly convex,
moderately to densely punctate; punctures
moderate, glabrous except near apex; setae
short, tawny. Venter: Thorax sparsely setose,
setae white. Mesothoracic process strongly
produced, projecting anteriorly to protrochanter;
shape triangular-elongate, apex
rounded, dorsoventrally flattened. Abdomen
glabrous. Apical spiracles not extruding. Legs:
Protibia with 2 teeth in apical quarter; apical
tooth longer. Mesotibia and metatibia widest
medially. Protarsomeres 2-4 wider than long,
cup-shaped. Protarsomere 4 with internoapical
stridulatory ridge. Protarsomere 5
without internal tooth. Mesotarsomere and
metatarsomere 5 with internobasal swelling.
Prounguitractor plate cylindrical, with 2 subapical
setae. Mesounguitractor plate and
metaunguitractor plate cylindrical, with 2
apical setae. Modified protarsal claw with
length less than protarsomere 5, greatly
thickened and elongate when compared with
other claw, dorsoventrally flattened, apex unevenly
bifurcate. Modified mesotarsal and
metatarsal claws elongated with ventral
tooth, not thickened. Male Genitalia:
Phallobase 1.5 times longer than length of
parameres (similar to Fig. 27). Parameres
smooth, dorsoventrally flattened.
ALLOTYPE. Length 25.1 mm, width 14.5
mm. As male except in the following respects.
Head: Antennal club shorter than segments
2-7. Legs: Protarsomere 4 without internoapical
stridulatory ridge. Modified protarsal
claw with ventral tooth, not thickened.