Menoscelis cordata, Santos, Paula B., Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M. & Almeida, Lúcia M., 2016

Santos, Paula B., Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M. & Almeida, Lúcia M., 2016, New species and records of Menoscelis Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 252-268 : 255

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.23
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079011
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87B7-FFB4-FFD6-FF01-85F0204CFB59
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Menoscelis cordata
status	sp. nov.

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Menoscelis cordata sp. nov.

( Figures 2 View FIGURE 2 , 7 View FIGURE 7 , 9 View FIGURE 9 , 11 View FIGURE 11 )

Type Material. “ Guyane Française,/ 4º02’N 52º41’W, Réserve/Naturelle des Nouragues–/Saut Pararé, 0 8. IX.2009,/vitre, SEAG col.” “Female” [white label]. “ HOLOTYPE / Menoscelis cordata /Santos, Almeida & Churata-Salcedo, 2015” [red label]. [ MNHN].

Description (female). Length 5.01, width 4.58 mm. Body rounded, strongly convex ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A–B). Head yellowish with triangular black spot; clypeus with anterior margin black, labrum dark brown. Pronotum metallic greenish black, anterior and lateral margins yellowish ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 B). Eyes finely faceted, not emarginate; interfacetal setae absent ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 E). Antennal insertion exposed ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 E). Antennae 10-segmented; scape with convex external suface; pedicel distinctly narrower than scape; antepenultimate antennomere about 2.5 times longer than other segments ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 E). Clypeus short, transverse, anterior clypeal margin emarginate medially, with small blunt lateral projections ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 B). Labrum exposed. Mandibles bifid, with basal tooth. Maxillary palps securiform ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 D). Labial palps 3-segmented ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 D). Mentum cordiform ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 D). Prosternal process with complete carinae, joined anteriorly forming a triangle, with stem varying in length, reaching anterior margin of prosternum ( Figs 7 View FIGURE 7 D, 9B). Elytra metallic greenish black with large cordiform yellow spot on the disc; epipleura dark brown, explanate and excavated to receive femoral apices ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 D). Pro- and mesosternum dark brown; metasternum yellowish. Legs brown with apices of femora yellowish. Protibia slightly angulate near base, sides parallel ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 F). Abdomen yellowish, with yellow pubescence ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C–D). Abdominal postcoxal lines recurved and incomplete, next to hind margin of ventrite, oblique line absent ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 C–D). Genital plate transverse ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E). Spermatheca with rounded cornu and wide apical projection, base slender ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 E, F). Coxites with spoon–shaped setae; style with indistinct apical setae and tergite with setae curved at apex ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 G).

Male. Unknown.

Etymology. This species is named based on the shape of the elytral spot, cordata L., heart-shaped.

Geographical distribution. French Guiana (Réserve Nationalle Naturelle des Nouragues–Saut Pararé) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ).

Remarks. Menoscelis cordata sp. nov. differs from all other species of the genus in its color pattern and female genitalia. The presence of very short grayish-white semidecumbent pubescence and the shape of the legs of M. cordata sp. nov. resembles only M. angeloi sp. nov.