Madoniella nota OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 62, 150, 298)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Amboro National Park, Los Volcanes. c. 1000 m, S18°06' W63°36', 20/xi-12/xii/2004. A second label reads, on tree fall, daytime, hand collected, Barclay, M. V. L. & Mendel H., BMNH (E) 2004-280 (BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Madoniella PIC was revised in 2011 (OPITZ 2011b). This work included a key to species. The available Madoniella nota specimen keys out to M. fonteboa OPITZ, from which the M. nota specimen differs by showing a vestige of the insignial posterocentral extension of the posterior block.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.0 mm; width 1.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 298. Color: Cranium red-castaneous; antenna brown, except scape testaceous; pronotum bicolored, mostly black, with red arch; elytra mostly dark brown, short testaceous line extended posteriorly from elytral basal margin, short slightly oblique line at elytral middle, vestige of insignial posterocentral extension of the posterior block; legs and abdomen brown. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna (Fig. 62) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, ommatidia small, eye notch large, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 20/15). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 150) transverse, coarsely punctured (PW/PL 58/49), disc deeply concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures striate (EL/EW 155/40); anterior margin of protibia with 5 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during a day between November 20 and December 12.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, nota, is a Latin name with the meaning of "mark"; with reference to the insignia on the elytral disc.