Neorthopleura rubra OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 122, 312)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: GOYAS, RIO VERDE (Goiás, Brazil), G. a. BAER, 1908 (MNHN).

D i a g n o s i s: This is the only known species of Neorthoplera whose specimens show a completely red elytral disc. The genus Neorthopleura BARR was revised by OPITZ (2013b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 5.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 312. Color: Cranium, prothorax, and elytra red, except epicranium and pronotal arch with black spot; antenna, pterothorax, legs, and abdomen black. Head: Cranium densely, finely punctate; lower frons indented; antenna not available; eyes small, finely facetted, eye much narrower (female) than frons (EW/FW 45/80, female). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 122) convex, transverse, arch transversely carinose at middle, disc tumescent at middle of base; side margins convex (PW/PL 135/110); elytra moderately convex, disc densely sculptured with small setiferous punctures, with 8 shallow ridges; epipleural margin abruptly terminates at elytral middle (EL/EW 680/95). Abdomen: Pygidium oblong/ scutiform.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromBrazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, rubra, is a Latin adjective with a meaning of "red"; with regard to the color of the elytral disc.