Eurycaulis anaxeis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 53, 147, 240, 328)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda; 40 km NW Santa Cruz, 17°40.3'S- 063°27.4' W, 3-X-2007, R. Morris, light (FSCA) . Paratype: 1 specimen. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda; 40 km NW Santa Cruz, 17°40.3'S- 063°27.4' W, 3-X-2007, light, R. Morris (RFMC) .

D i a g n o s i s: The broad condition of the phallobasic apodeme will distinguish the members of this species from others within Peloniinae .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 328. Color: Forebody testaceous, except pronotal collar slightly infuscated; antennal basal half testaceous, brown in remainder; pterothorax and abdomen brown; elytra mostly dark brown, epipleural margin testaceous. Head: Eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 27/22); antenna capitate (Fig. 53), funicular antennomeres filiform, gradually shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovate. Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 147) slightly transverse; lateral tubercle slightly defined (PW/PL 73/67), disc finely punctate; elytral disc without asetiferous punctures (EL/EW 130/35). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 240.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, anaxeis, is a Greek adjective that stems from anaxeo (= polish); with reference to the surface of the elytral disc.