Parapelonides naranjo OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 80, 120, 216, 282)

Holotype: ♀. COSTA RICA, Guan. 3k SE R. Naranjo, 15-19-Mar. 1993, F. D. Parker (FSCA) . Paratype: 1 specimen. Honduras: Departamento de Francisco de Morazan, Zamorano, 27-V- 2002, R. Turnbow (RHTC).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Parapelonides BARR was revised in 2014 (OPITZ 2014b). This work included a key to species. Parapelonides naranjo specimens key out to P. nigrescens (SCHAEFFER) from which P. naranjo specimens differ by showing the side margins of the pronotum constricted at anterior 1/4 th.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.2 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 282. Color: Cranium mostly black, clypeus and middle frons testaceous; antenna black; prothorax widely testaceous at sides, black in remainder; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen piceous; elytra bicolored, testaceous in basal 2/3 rd, black in remainder. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna (Fig. 80) capitate, funicular antennomeres gradually shorter from pedicel to 8 th antennomere, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 long triangular, antennomere 11 subrectangulate; eyes small, ommatidia small, ocular notch large, eye much narrower than frons (EW/FW 15/30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 120) quadrate (PW/PL 70/70), anterior transverse depression present; disc coarsely punctate, sides of pronotal proper convex; elytral asetiferous punctures small, profusely distributed throughout disc; epipleural fold wide in basal 3/4 th, then tapered to elytral apex (EL/EW 250/60); Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 216.

Variation: In some specimens, the posterior black coloration on the elytral disc is extended more anteriorly, narrowly extended anteriorly near sutural margin.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during March and May.

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

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, naranjo, is a name in apposition and refers to Rio Naranjo, part of the type locality.