Neorthopleura quintana OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 38, 184, 231, 311)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: MEXICO, Quintana Roo, 17 km NW Felipe Carrillo Puerto, 17-VI- 1990, coll. M. C. Thomas (FSCA) . Paratypes: 3 specimens. Mexico: Estado de Quintana Roo, 18 km N Carrillo Puerto, 1-VI-1984, R. Turnbow (RHTC, 2; WOPC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: Testaceous legs and differences in the aedeagus distinguish the members of this species from the superficially similar members of N. thomasi . The genus Neorthopleura BARR was revised by OPITZ (2013b).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 311. Color: Cranium and pronotum red; antenna black except scape testaceous; pterothorax castaneous; elytra brown, with faintly visible testaceous lunulate fascia; legs testaceous; abdomen brown. Head: Cranium densely, finely punctate; lower frons indented; antenna capitate, funicular antennomeres progressively shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 with long (Fig. 38, male) collateral branch; antennomere 11 oblong; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider (male) than frons (EW/FW 40/30, male). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 184) convex, transverse, side margins convex (PW/PL 115/105); elytra moderately convex, disc densely sculptured with small setiferous punctures; epipleural margin abruptly terminates at elytral middle (EL/EW 360/80). Abdomen: Pygidium quadrate/scutiform, posterior margin emarginated; aedeagus as in Fig. 231.

Variation: The width of the frons is sex dimorphic.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, quintana, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.