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84 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITYOF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
16. Platycoelia sandia new species
(Figs. 54, 55)
TYPE SPECIMENS. Male holotype, female
allotype and 10 paratypes (7 male, 3 female).
Holotype male at HAHC labeled “ECUADOR
Pcia. Napo Puente Azuela 1650 m a
Venedictoff. Leg. Coll. Martínez Abr.-976” and
“H. & A. HOWDEN COLLECTION ex. A.
Martinez coll.” Allotype female at USNM labeled
“ECUADOR: Morona Prov., Santiago la
Esperanza, 1900m. 16 May 1976 Gordon
Armstrong.” One male and one female
paratype at DJCC labeled “ECUADOR;
NAPO HUACAMAYOS CUROE X-93.” One
male paratype at UNSM labeled “Sucula
Macas800m Ecuador.” One male paratype at
ZMHB labeled “Macas Ecuador or.” One male
paratype as SMTD labeled “Ecuador Stübel,”
“4406,” and “flavostriata Blanch. 50.” One
male paratype at DCCC and one male and one
female paratypes at ABTS labeled “ECUA-
DOR Napo Pr. Cosanga, at lights 25 March
2000 Coll. D.C. Carlson.” One male and one
female paratypes at CASC labeled “ECUA-
DOR: Napo: Cosanga: San Isidro Ranch. 0°
30' S 77° 54' W 2000m May 7, 1996 in cloud
forest E.S. Ross collector California Academy
of Sciences.” Type locality: Puente Azuela,
Napo, Ecuador.
HOLOTYPE. Male: length 23.1 mm, width
13.3 mm. Color dorsally lime green with
lighter green elytral striae 1-5; yellow head,
pronotum, scutellum, elytron margins; pygidium
yellow with medial brown patch.
Ventrally lime green with dark brown metasternum,
abdominal sternites. Body ovate,
convex. Head: Dorsal surface glabrous. Frons
densely punctate, clypeus rugopunctate,
punctures small or moderate. Frons not depressed.
Frontoclypeal suture complete.
Clypeal apex broadly rounded. Eyes separated
by approximately 3.1 transverse eyewidths.
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
slightly longer than other segments combined,
slightly shorter than length of frons.
Pronotum: Surface glabrous, densely punctate,
with small and moderate punctures.
Marginal bead weak apicolaterally, laterally,
absent elsewhere. Elytron: Surface glabrous,
densely punctate; punctures small; longitudinal
striae distinguished only by yellow coloration.
Suture angled apically, without spine.
Pygidium: Width approximately 2.5 times
length medially. Surface weakly convex,
densely punctate; punctures small or moderate,
setose; setae cream colored. Venter: Thorax
densely setose (except glabrous medially),
setae white. Mesothoracic process strongly
produced, projecting anteriorly to protrochanter;
shape conical-elongate, apex
rounded; ventrally flattened. Abdomen
sparsely setose laterally, setae white. Apical
spiracles not extruding. Legs: Protibia with 2
teeth in apical quarter. Mesotibia and
metatibia widest medially. Protarsomeres
2-4 wider than long, cup-shaped. Protarsomere
3-4 with internoapical stridulatory
ridge. Protarsomere 5 with weak internal
stridulatory pad. 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.
ALLOTYPE. Female: length 25.1 mm, width
14.4 mm. As male except in the following respects.
Head: Antennal club slightly shorter
than other segments combined. Legs: Protibia
with 3 teeth in apical half, third tooth obsolete.
Protarsomere 3-4 without internoapical
stridulatory ridge. Protarsomere 5 without
internal pad. Modified protarsal claw with
ventral tooth, not thickened.
VARIATION. Male (n=7). Length 21.6-23.5
mm, width 12.6-12.9 mm (Fig. 55). Female
(n=3). Length 25.6-25.7 mm, width 14.4-14.5
mm. Paratypes similar to holotype and allotype
except in the following respects. Color of
body sometimes dark green or brownish-