Ichnea cerinis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 93, 124, 222, 291)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: GUYANE FRANÇAISE, Massif du Mitaraka ca. 2°14'N- 54°27'O, 25.II-26.III.2015. A second label reads: La Planète Revisitée- MNHN.PNI Guyane, 2015 (APA- 973-1) (NMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Ichnea LAPORTE was revised in 2010 (OPITZ 2010). That work included a key to Ichnea species. Ichnea cerinis specimens key out to I. incerta GORHAM, from which I. cerinis specimens differ by showing a completely yellow body color, shorter phallobasic rod, and significantly wider phallic apex.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 291. Color: Yellow, except antenna black with only distal 1/2 of last antennomere yellow. Head: Frons deeply furrowed; antenna (Fig. 93) capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse and densely setose, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 rectangulate, antennomere 10 oblong; eyes large, finely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 22/14). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 124) slightly oblong (PW/PL 68/70) sides without tubercle, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures small, profusely distributed (EL/EW 340/55); epipleuron flared; anterior margin of protibia with 10 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium transverse/scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 222.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during a period from 25 February to 26 March 2015.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from French Guiana.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, cerinis, is a Latin name that stems from cerinus (= yellowish); with reference to the color of this beetle.